Chinese games firm Perfect World is reportedly cutting over 1,000 jobs. 

That's according to local publication The Paper – reported by Game Developer – which says that the company has made cuts to pretty much every department with the exception of esports. Perfect World's officers in Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu have all been impacted.   

It's incredibly unclear what's happening with the projects it currently has in development; The Paper says that Perfect World and One Punch Man: World are still in the works, but another publication – Pandaily – says that development has been "suspended". 

Perfect World is best known in the West for distributing Dota 2 and Counter-Strike 2 in China, but it also has its own development and publishing businesses. The company sold its European arm to Embracer Group in 2021, who renamed it Gearbox Publishing four months later.