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WB Games Montreal lays off 99 employees as Suicide Squad packs up

Right before the holidays.

WB Games Montreal has laid off 99 employees after the larger Warner Bros detailed Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League‘s final update.

According to CBC Radio-Canada, the layoffs are at Keywords, a subcontracted quality assurance team. Radio-Canada reports that impacted employees were told there were not enough projects to keep them employed on Monday morning local time.

“We were offered two choices: talk to a counselor to find a new job, or put our name on a recall list for when there is work for us,” an employee told Radio-Canada (as translated from French). “But this second option [won’t occur until] 2026.”

Radio-Canada says that WB Games Montreal employs approximately 240 employees at Keywords; this round of layoffs impacts more than a third of that total number.

Suicide Squad has just introduced its final character, Deathstroke, ahead of a patch that will support offline play in January 2025. WB Games Montreal was responsible for 2022’s Gotham Knights.

Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League is available on Windows PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, alongside Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, and PS5.

Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League

2 February 2024
PC PS5 Xbox Series S & X
 

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