NCsoft Lays Off 21

Today NCsoft confirmed to Kotaku that they are indeed laying some folks off from their Austin offices.

“We are announcing that 21 positions are being eliminated in the Austin office of NCsoft in the area of product development”, an NCsoft spokesman told Kotaku. “Primarily this is related to products which we have not previously announced and were in prototype phases. We are also cutting some positions on the Dungeon Runners team after deciding not to port the client to other platforms at this time”.

Among those let go, Scott “Lum the Mad” Jennings.

The news comes a day after parent company Korean-based NCsoft announced a bump in sales but a drop in operating profit and net income. The news is a stark contrast to rumours that surfaces earlier this week that 140 to 160 people were going to be let go and the office possibly shuttered. At the time NCsoft told Kotaku that the rumours were “not accurate at all” and “pretty outrageous”.