Ah, here’s a big bummer: We’re finding out today that Wayfinder studio Airship Syndicate has suffered yet another round of layoffs. GameDeveloper.com counts at least three former devs posting about layoffs at the company, including a tech designer and two artists. That makes at least the third wave of layoffs that we know of, with the first in January 2024 not long after Tencent-owned Digital Extremes abruptly closed its external publishing outfit and set Airship adrift, and the second last fall, when the team was cut to 50 devs. At the time, some people on that team were already working on a second project. We don’t know the full scope of these layoffs just yet.

We last checked in on Wayfinder in May for our Whatever Happened To column, finding that not a whole lot had gone on with the game since its Xbox launch in January. In March, Airship executive producer AJ LaSaracina reminded Steam fans that future development was contingent on player reception, but player counts have only continued to drop since then, which made the content slowdown (outside of hotfixes) seem inevitable.

That said, in June, the devs told Discord fans that they were “very close to releasing mod support” specifically for PC. And yesterday, the devs suggested the mod editor release is coming “within the next couple of weeks.”