You won't need me to tell you how terrible 2023 and this year have been for video game industry layoffs. It seems like it's almost a daily occurrence that a studio is being shut down somewhere, regardless, apparently, of how well their game has done. The latest victim of these mass layoffs has been Surgent Studios, creators of Tales of Kenzera: Zau, who we had the pleasure of interviewing not too long ago, who had to let over a dozen of its developers go.