It’s the latest in a series of game studio closures in the Seattle region, including Disney’s Bellevue, Wash., game studio and Torchlight developer Runic Games. Sources differ on whether the shutdown is effective immediately or will occur over the next two months. One employee told Gamasutra anonymously that Wargaming’s CEO Victor Kislyi announced the Wargaming Seattle closure at a surprise all-hands meeting Wednesday morning. The move comes less than two years after the demise of Wargaming’s other Seattle-area studio, the mobile-oriented WG Cells, which was originally DropForge Games. Word of the impending closure leaked out today from employees and others in the industry, but Wargaming hasn’t yet confirmed or publicly acknowledged the plan to shutter the studio. The decision will reportedly leave around 150 employees without jobs, though efforts to recruit and re-employ them have already begun via the hashtag #WGJobs.
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