On Friday Eidos announced that due to lower than expected sales of Tomb Raider Underworld their previous estimates for their full year revenues would fall short of expectations. Now Kotaku, citing unnamed sources, is reporting that 30 team members from the game's developer Crystal Dynamics have now been laid off.
The report did not say how many other team members remain at the developer which shares space with Eidos' US branch in Northern California. Eidos said early on Friday that while Tomb Raider Underworld sold well in Europe and worldwide sales have totaled 1.5 million units so far the game did not sell as expected in the US.
Update: Our sister site Joystiq has now confirmed the layoffs via a spokesperson from Eidos.
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