Metroid, Castlevania dev hit with layoffs just 2 days before its latest game launches (opens in new tab)

Metroid Dread studio MercurySteam has been hit with a round of layoffs, the indie dev revealed earlier today. The Madrid-based studio announced the news in a LinkedIn post where it described the layoffs as "a workforce adjustment process," marking the most unique and corporate way of describing people losing their jobs that I've seen in a while, and one that just doesn't sit very well in my stomach. Image via Nintendo "While this is something common within the production cycles of our industr...