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Refractor Games lays off about 85% of staff weeks after Fifa World Cup launch

Refractor Games, developer of Fifa World Cup: Launch Edition, has laid off roughly 85% of its development staff. The game released less than two months before the cuts. The reductions remove the majority of the team responsible for ongoing updates and support, materially shrinking the studio's capacity to maintain the newly released title.

• Refractor Games is the studio behind Fifa World Cup: Launch Edition.
• Approximately 85% of the studio's developers have been laid off.
• Fifa World Cup: Launch Edition launched less than two months prior to the layoffs.
• The layoffs remove most of the team responsible for future updates and support for the game.