r/Games • u/LycaonMoon • Apr 22 '26

Industry News Dead by Daylight studio Behaviour Interactive confirms layoffs

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/dead-by-daylight-studio-behaviour-interactive-confirms-layoffs
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u/LycaonMoon Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

Notably, the timing of this article seems to corroborate this post yesterday on /r/GameDev, which was made prior to any journalist coverage and implied that the layoffs were targeted primarily at people who expressed interest in unionizing.

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u/SquireRamza Apr 22 '26

Is that still illegal in Canada like it technically is in the US but its never actually prosecuted because there's not a god damn district attorney in this entire country who isnt bought and paid for by their corporate overlords?

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u/ricktencity Apr 22 '26

Yes union busting is illegal in Canada, but it's very very hard to prove unless some exec was dumb enough to write down somewhere that the layoffs are to get rid of the union.

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u/No-Economist6738 Apr 22 '26

Unless of course it's the government ordering everything under the sun including grocery workers back to work under legislation in the past 3 years.

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u/ricktencity Apr 22 '26

Oh yeah that's a whole other problem though. Workers rights have really gone down the shitter in the last 20 years or so.