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People Can Fly lays off staff as it cans two projects

People Can Fly lays off staff as it cans two projects

Polish developer People Can Fly has "scaled down" the teams working on two projects that it has opted to cancel. 

In a post on LinkedIn (posted on a Sunday!!!), CEO Sebastian Wojciechowski said that it had canned Gemini and Bifrost, two projects that it had in development. The former was axed due to its publishing partner not providing terms and conditions for more development milestones; the latter was cancelled due to a lack of funds. 

"Today we made a very difficult decision to suspend the development of project Gemini and project Bifrost - the relevant current reports have been released to the market," Wojciechowski wrote. 

He continued: "As a result, we have to significantly regroup as a studio and scale down our teams, which hurts the most. 

"We wish to express our deepest regret and sadness over how these events have unfolded and our sincere gratitude for everyone's contribution up to this point." 

This news is the latest in a string of bad luck for People Can Fly; back in 2022, Take-Two dropped a publishing deal with the company. During 2024, the studio had to make two rounds of layoffs

There has been one upside, though. At the start of 2025, People Can Fly announced that it was working with The Coalition on the upcoming Gears of War: E-Day. 


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Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.