IO Interactive, the Square Enix Europe internal studio responsible for the Hitman franchise, are said to be letting 35 staff go in a series of redundancies.
The studio are currently developing Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, and recently released Mini Ninjas.
The announcement of layoffs was made on Danish website Computerworld.
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