Useless Area co-creator Glen Schofield is leaving Placing Distance Studios lower than a 12 months after The Callisto Protocol‘s launch.
Useless Area co-creator Glen Schofield based Placing Distance Studios in 2019
Bloomberg‘s Jason Schreier reported that Placing Distance Studios Chief Govt Officer Glen Schofield is leaving the studio, noting {that a} consultant of Korean writer Krafton — of which Placing Distance is a subsidiary of — acknowledged that Schofield has “determined to pursue new alternatives,” and that the “studio’s plans stay unaffected.”
Chief Growth Officer Steve Papoutsis would be the new CEO. Schofield additionally launched an announcement about his departure.
“Creating Placing Distance Studios has been an unbelievable journey and I’m so happy with what we’ve achieved with The Callisto Protocol, a sport near my coronary heart,” Schofield states. “Whereas pursuing a brand new journey is thrilling, leaving SDS is bittersweet, however I do know the studio is in wonderful arms. Steve and I’m going means again to working at Visceral Video games. I noticed how profitable he was in taking the reins after my departure then and the way he continued the studio’s success and development. That’s how I do know he’s the one to steer the studio into its subsequent chapter.”
The entire assertion from Krafton is as follows:
“After efficiently founding Placing Distance Studios, Glen Schofield has determined to pursue new alternatives. Steve Papoutsis, who beforehand served as Chief Growth Officer and Normal Supervisor for SDS, Chief Working Officer at Baobab Studios, and Vice President, Normal Supervisor, and Govt Producer at Digital Arts, has been appointed CEO of the studio. There isn’t a higher individual than Steve to information SDS via this transition. His lengthy skilled collaboration with Glen extends all the way in which again to once they first labored collectively at Crystal Dynamics within the late ’90s earlier than reuniting at Visceral Video games.
“Glen’s contributions throughout his time at Krafton have been invaluable. He constructed an ace workforce of skills at SDS and set a excessive commonplace for the work they did collectively on daily basis. We’re assured within the workforce’s continued success due to the numerous impression Glen has had, and for that we owe him our deepest gratitude. We’ve got been rigorously planning for the transition to make sure a clean handover and uninterrupted operations. Placing Distance Studios is dedicated to supporting its extremely proficient workforce. Our employees stays a high precedence throughout this transition as they’re the spine of our success. The studio’s plans stay unaffected, and its focus is to proceed producing distinctive content material.”
The Callisto Protocol was first launched on December 1 of final 12 months. It obtained largely combined critiques from critics and gamers and reportedly failed to fulfill Krafton’s gross sales expectations. Because of this, Placing Distance suffered layoffs final month, with 32 workers in whole being laid off as Krafton carried out “strategic modifications that realign the studio’s priorities.”
