Two Years Post-Acquisition, Ngmoco Axes Bulk Of Staff At iOS Game Studio Freeverse

Mobile gaming outfit Ngmoco has swung the ax on Freeverse, the Mac and iOS game development studio it acquired back in February 2010. Today Ngmoco, which is now owned by Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA, laid off the bulk of Freeverse's staff, possibly as part of a move to close the studio -- a move that one tipster tells us staffers at the 18-year-old Freeverse "did not see coming." The layoffs come just one week after the departures of Freeverse's co-founders, brothers Ian and Colin Lynch Smith. When contacted for comment, an Ngmoco rep sent the following statement attributed to VP of Studios Clive Downey:

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