Sources inside studio tell Gamasutra that employees were asked to hand in spurious resignation letters.
Gameloft, the
studio behind popular mobile games like Assassin's Creed and Asphalt 4,
has apparently shut down its studio in Hyderabad and laid off the 250
employees working there. A report filed by Gamasutra claims that
Gameloft asked all its Indian employees to sign pre-dated resignation
letters yesterday, stating that they were resigning voluntarily.
According to the report, some employees have refused to sign the letter
on account of it being “fishy.”
If the news of lay-offs is true, then it comes at a highly irregular time, since Gameloft
also did its annual conference call yesterday where it revealed that it
had managed to achieve 27 percent revenue growth in 2012. Also, the
process involved in shutting down the Hyderabad studio was out of the
ordinary, with Gamasutra's source claiming that employees were asked to
leave the office premises immediately with their belongings while the
company shut the Internet and the premises' balcony doors.
We have tried reaching out to
representatives from Gameloft India but they have yet to respond. We
will update this story as soon we get further details.
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