Capcom lays off 50 at Dead Rising 4’s Capcom Vancouver

6 Feb 2018

Steve Wright

Capcom Vancouver, the studio behind Dead Rising 4, has reportedly laid off 50 of its 250 total employees.

The report comes by way of Kotaku, who cites a source close to the studio. The source alleges that the layoffs were “aimed to streamline the company and wrangle the next Dead Rising, which had been over-scoped and under-staffed”.

Moreover, a piece of new IP being developed by Capcom Vancouver has been scrapped. Kotaku’s source described the title as “a third-person action-adventure game set in an alternate reality version of New York”.

Capcom hasn’t commented on the story as yet. We’ll keep you posted as more is known.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.