The Internet was all abuzz earlier this week on rumors that NCsoft might shut down their Austin, Texas office completely but now our sister site Massively has official confirmation that the MMO publisher will indeed lay off 21 workers at the Austin location.

According to the statement, some of the team members that lost their jobs work on the Dungeons Runners free-to-play MMO but that the game itself is not shutting down, contradicting earlier rumors. The other positions were working on unannounced titles and prototypes. So at the moment it appears that earlier rumors of the Tabula Rasa MMO being moved from Austin to another NCsoft team are untrue.