Job losses at Crytek Budapest

Over thirty staff at Crytek Budapest will be made redundant after E3, according to reports.

It is said that nine people have already lost their jobs at the Hungarian dev outfit. Avni Yerli, co-founder of the Crysis 2 company, confirmed to Gamasutra that the Budapest studio is getting a new direction and focus".

It was also alleged the development group will switch from work on an Xbox 360-exclusive Kinect game to focus on tablet titles.

Develop has the full story.

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