Studio Rovio confirmed the information about the cuts. 213 employees will leave the company.
The layoffs will affect several offices of the company around the world. This will be part of the announced restructuring actions. Earlier it was reported that the employees involved in the production of The Angry Birds Movie will not be affected by the measures, but now it has become known that they will also fall under the reduction.
The number of employees who will leave Rovio turned out to be less than planned: in August, the company’s management announced that the staff would be reduced by 260 people.
In a press release, Rovio CEO Pekka Rantala (Pekka Rantala) He noted that the reason for the restructuring was “the exceptional desire of the company to explore all available business opportunities.” As a result, he states, the studio “took up too many things.”
Rovio will focus its efforts in three main areas: games, media and consumer goods.
A source: http://www.rovio.com