Australian studio Torus has laid off its team and will be on a hiatus for the foreseeable future.
The news was initially reported by journalist Jack Ryan on social media, with founder Bill McIntosh then telling GamesIndustry.biz that the company “is not winding up yet” and that a decision will be made about whether or not it’ll shut down definitely later this year depending on 2024 “plays out.”
“All employees were given a month’s notice after returning to work early January,” McIntosh told us. “The hope was that, during the notice period, we could have gotten at least one of the projects in discussion greenlit. That never happened and half the team went at the end of January.
