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Report: Daybreak Game Company issues layoffs, including EQ Next Director

Casualties have hit the newly-dubbed Daybreak Game Company. One of those is the Director of Development for EverQuest Next and Landmark.

Ozzie Mejia

February 11, 2015 11:55 AM

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Last week, Sony Online Entertainment became Daybreak Game Company. With no details given, there was an assumption that business would go on as usual, but that quickly changed today. The studio suffered massive layoffs, including EverQuest Next and Landmark Director of Development Dave Georgeson.

Georgeson confirmed his departure on Twitter earlier today. A report from Kotaku notes that positions have been eliminated throughout Daybreak's Austin and San Diego offices.

While it is unknown how this will affect the current slate of games, including H1Z1 that's in Steam Early Access, PlanetSide 2 that's currently in beta on Playstation 4, and the aforemention EQ Next that's still in development, the staffs of those respective games appear to be getting shaken up. While Creative Director of PlanetSide 2 Matt Higby's job appears to be safe, he sums up on Twitter that the losses will be felt throughout the studio.

Shacknews will monitor this situation and report back with any further information.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?