Overview

• The studio will cut roughly 300 developers, about 7% of its 4,200-strong workforce, across China, France and the United States.
• Lyon-based employees initiated a strike to protest the job reductions and management’s mandatory generative AI tool training.
• Leadership froze salary increases and reduced bonuses in February to manage rising development costs and strained margins.
• Oblivion Remastered became one of 2025’s best-selling games without generating royalty income for Virtuos, intensifying its financial challenges.
• Virtuos has not provided an official statement confirming the layoffs or outlining severance terms and future staffing plans.