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It's just the Embracer group as their idea was to just buy up all the independent studios to package them and sell to a big player (MS, Sony, Amazon, etc.) at a higher price than they purchased for.
No value-add finance scheme essentially. Interest rates are higher and they can't get a company to buy out their portfolio, so they're now shuttering all the great studios they bought up. Thousands of hardworking devs are out of jobs and dozens of games are dead because some Swedes wanted to make a buck off of other people's effort.
True but riot games and activision blizzard also doing mass layoffs???
That was always Riot's plan to overhire first and lay off a portion. Blizzard's cleaning house after the acquisition by MS.
Ghoulish still, but done for different reasons.