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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 Forbes-Calvin is a freelance writer and photographer, mostly operating within the games industry. Over his career, he has written for the likes of MCV, Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, The Observer, VGC and Esquire. That's on top of writing books for Dark Horse on RuneScape, Assassin's Creed, Dead Island 2 and more.