{"id":11940,"date":"2018-02-03T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/314264"},"modified":"2018-02-03T00:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T00:11:00","slug":"layoffs-at-nexon-america-after-company-restructuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/03\/layoffs-at-nexon-america-after-company-restructuring\/","title":{"rendered":"Layoffs at Nexon America after company restructuring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nexon America has laid off an undisclosed\u00a0number of staff following restructuring at the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This comes a\u00a0few months after its acquisition of mobile studio Pixelberry\u00a0Studios, which the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/309360\/Nexon_snaps_up_High_School_Story_game_dev_Pixelberry_Studios.php\">bought back in November of 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/news\/67466\/nexon-america-layoffs-2018\/\">As reported by Pocket Gamer,<\/a>\u00a0a spokesperson for Nexon\u00a0explained the the US branch was restructured\u00a0to &#8220;streamline operations and reset the organization to pursue a deeper focus on our most promising titles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nexon\u00a0also confirmed the layoffs and and stated that they did not come as a result of the poor performance of <em>Lawbreakers,<\/em> which it published.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, an executive at Nexon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/312496\/LawBreakers_publisher_blames_Battlegrounds_for_poor_reception.php\">did makes statements in the past<\/a> about their opinion on what was responsible for the game&#8217;s failure to meet expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nexon America has laid off an undisclosed\u00a0number of staff following restructuring at the company.\u00a0 This comes a\u00a0few months after its acquisition of mobile studio Pixelberry\u00a0Studios, which the company bought back in November of 2017. As reported by Pocket Gamer,\u00a0a spokesperson for Nexon\u00a0explained the the US branch was restructured\u00a0to &#8220;streamline operations and reset the organization to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}