Activision Blizzard may have had solid financial news to report recently but it seems even they are not immune to cutting back on expenses Shacknews first reported the news that Activision's in-house developer Raven Software has let of a number of its employees Today. Big Download contacted Raven Software for confirmaton and its studio head and co-founder Brian Raffel emailed us back stating, "Raven Software is slightly reducing its workforce to better reflect the studios upcoming slate." Shacknews reports that the number could be between 30 and 40 team members that are affected.

Raven has shipped two games for Activision this year; the April released movie based game X-Men Origins Wolverine and the just released FPS Wolfenstein. They are slated to release the original FPS Singularity sometime in the first quarter of 2010. Shacknews claims that today's layoffs affected the developer as a whole and that it did not affect just one team or department.