Former id Software designer John Romero's latest game development company is dealing with layoffs. A number of team members at the San Mateo, California based Slipgate Ironworks were given their notices today, according to Kotaku. While the developer's parent company, Gazillion Entertainment, has confirmed layoffs did happen at the developer they are not saying how many people were affected.

Romero helped to form Slipgate Ironworks way back in 2005 and since then the company has been working on a secret MMO game project. In their official statement, Gazillion states the game is still in development with its smaller team but " . . . we decided to change the format of our project at Slipgate Ironworks to better achieve this aim." The statement indicated at least some of the people affected by the layoffs may be offered positions at Gazillion's other game developers which include NetDevil (Jumpgate Evolution, Lego Universe) and Gargantuan Games (Marvel Universe MMO)