Social media posts from Twitter seem to suggest that Cryptic Studios, known for developing Star Trek Online, has suffered layoffs.
Although some of the tweets have now been deleted, an ex Perfect World Entertainment PR representative confirmed the layoffs and called the staff cuts “a slaughter”.
Game Designer Matt Miller, who worked on Star Trek Online and City of Heroes, confirmed on Twitter that he had been laid off too.
“So I got laid off yesterday, but on the bright side I have more time to practice for the HexTCG $100k tournament” said Miller.
Perfect World Entertainment hasn’t commented on the cuts yet, but we’ll keep trying to contact them to see if we can find out if it goes beyond Cryptic Studios. Our best wishes are with everyone that got laid off today.
