Plaice No More
Fishlabs is laying off around 50 employees as Embracer Group restructure continues
The German games developer was bought out by Embracer subsidiary Plaion 10 years ago
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Deep Silver Fishlabs
Website www.dsfishlabs.com
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Founded in 2004, Fishlabs is already responsible for the development of more than 15 high-end mobile games, and employs a team of 30 people at the company's headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. Fishlabs's founders, Michael Schade and Christian Lohr, have approximately 12 years of experience each in the field of 3D animation and software development.
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