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Midway Axes 80 to 90 in Austin?

5:00AM Brian Crecente | Eighty to 90 people were laid off this morning at Midway’s Austin office, according to insiders who contacted Kotaku today. Midway has not yet responded to request for confirmation and comment. The rumoured deep cuts are said to leave mysterious open-word crime game, code-named “Criminal”, dead in the water and torpedoes the company’s core-tech. Another tipster tells us that a majority of those laid off were from the recently canceled Criminal team. So many people were laid off at the studio, the tipster says, that those who weren’t received a phone call Sunday night telling them to stay home. Everyone else who showed up were “processed and laid off”. More »