Crystal Dynamics 'Fully Committed' to Tomb Raider Franchise Despite Fourth Redundancy Round in 12 Months

Tomb Raider: Catalyst developer Crystal Dynamics says it "remains afloat committed to the aboriginal development" of the Lara Croft franchise contempt suffering its 4th redundancy circular successful the past 12 months.

"Today, Crystal Dynamics is reducing its workforce by 20 talented squad members, divided betwixt immoderate improvement unit and immoderate cardinal operations roles," the institution announced connected LinkedIn. "This is simply a hard time for our studio, and we ne'er marque these decisions lightly, peculiarly aft the restructuring we underwent past year."

At the clip of its acquisition by Embracer successful 2022, Crystal Dynamics had 273 employees crossed its Austin, Bellevue, and San Mateo offices. Since then, workplace employees person endured 3 abstracted layoff rounds successful March, August, and November 2025, each of which came connected apical of 10 occupation cuts successful 2023. Now, the workplace is shrinking its squad by different 20 people. It's unclear however galore employees remain.

"As our existent projects determination into caller phases of development, we continuously instrumentality a hard look astatine our squad structures to guarantee they align with our semipermanent workplace goals," the workplace added. "While we ever strive to modulation our radical into caller roles whenever possible, we person unluckily reached a constituent wherever these departures are necessary.

We are unthinkable grateful for the passionateness and hard enactment these individuals person poured into our games and our studio. We are providing them with severance and occupation placement assistance to assistance them onshore their adjacent opportunity. If you person openings oregon cognize of positions for talented developers, delight interaction us, and we'll link them."

Concluding its statement, Crystal Dynamics stressed that portion it understood "news similar this tin origin interest amongst our community," it "remains afloat committed to the aboriginal improvement of our already announced Tomb Raider titles. Today, however, our precedence is supporting our colleagues who are moving on."

Crystal Dynamics antecedently laid disconnected an chartless fig of workers successful August of past twelvemonth pursuing the cancellation of Perfect Dark by Xbox, which Crystal Dynamics had been supporting. It presently has 2 announced Tomb Raider games successful development: Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, a remake of the archetypal 1996 Tomb Raider, acceptable for merchandise aboriginal this year, and marque caller Tomb Raider game, Tomb Raider: Catalyst, owed retired astatine immoderate constituent adjacent year. Alix Wilton Regan volition present play Lara Croft successful some games, replacing Camilla Luddington, who portrayed Lara Croft successful the Survivor Trilogy.

Both Legacy of Atlantis and Catalyst are published by Amazon Game Studios, which itself has suffered a torrid clip of late, with a fig of cancelations, closures, and layoffs. The Prime Video Tomb Raider series, starring Game of Thrones histrion Sophie Turner, is presently filming successful surrey, England.

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