Most recently gaining notority for its Clonegate case with regard to Spry Fox's Triple Town, social and mobile outfit 6L has announced it's laid off the majority of its internal development team.
Previously known as 6waves Lolapps, the company which was created by the merger of Hong Kong-based Facebook publisher 6waves and San Francisco-based Facebook developer Lolapps, is now looking to focus on its publishing activities, especially on mobile.
Slightly confusing the issue, however, are its external self-owned teams such as Escalation Studios, which developed the company's first mobile games, and aren't believed to be affected by the layoffs.
According to various reports, 80 percent of Lolapps' Facebook teams have been left go. Following the acquisition of Escalation in Janaury 2012, 6L was said to consist of 230 staff.
Focus on your strength
6waves Lolapps will now focus on working with independent developers to launch and grow their mobile and social games, CEO Rex Ng, told VentureBeat in a statement.
As a result we have restructured the company to focus on key functions which include developer outreach, product advisory, user growth initiatives and our publishing platform. The re-structuring means that we will have more resources to continue our leadership in the social and mobile game publishing space.
In March, 6L announced a mobile games development fund, which it said had attracted 16 developers thanks to its claim that partners could gain up to $100,000 in marketing funds.
It's certainly got the cash, with Korean publisher Nexon and Insight Venture Partners investing $35 million to-date.
[source: VentureBeat]
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