Crystal Dynamics 'Fully Committed' to Tomb Raider Franchise Despite Fourth Redundancy Round in 12 Months

Tomb Raider: Catalyst developer Crystal Dynamics says it "remains fully committed to the future development" of the Lara Croft franchise despite suffering its fourth redundancy round in the last 12 months. "Today, Crystal Dynamics is reducing its workforce by 20 talented team members, split between some development personnel and some central operations roles," the company announced on LinkedIn. "This is a difficult day for our studio, and we never make these decisions lightly, particularly after the restructuring we underwent last year." At the time of its acquisition by Embracer in 2022, Crystal Dynamics had 273 employees across its Austin, Bellevue, and San Mateo offices. Since then, studio employees have endured three separate layoff rounds in March, August, and November 2025, all of which came on top of 10 job cuts in 2023. Now, the studio is shrinking its team by another 20 people. It's unclear how many employees remain. "As our current projects move into new phases of development, we continuously take a hard look at our team structures to ensure they align with our long-term studio goals," the studio added. "While we always strive to transition our people into new roles whene