Severe Layoffs at Sony Online Entertainment

March 31, 2011

George Broussard, game producer and designer known for the Duke Nukem series, sent a Tweet yesterday that Sony Online Entertainment will be seeing layoffs and that "studio closure is possible".

According to Kotaku, a source has confirmed closures in Seattle, Denver, and Tucson, Arizona. A large portion of the Sony offices at Austin and San Diego have also been given a pink slip. What this means for D.C. Universe Online and Free Realms is yet unknown.

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