Testronic shuts down another studio, this time in Bucharest
Game service provider Testronic is shutting down yet another studio. The company confirmed in a statement to Game Developer that it's winding down operations at Testronic Bucharest and laying off an unknown number of employees.
The closure is apparently driven by the company's need to "optimize, focus, and consolidate" Testronic's presence in Warsaw and London. It stated that the Bucharest office will work with existing clients to complete their projects, though some projects will "transition" to teams in other locations.
"It will be provided to the highest possible quality standards, that we consistently deliver to our partners, from all our facilities, worldwide," Testronic concluded.
A Testronic spokesperson told Game Developer that the company is implementing measures to "support impacted employees. These include job searching webinars, individual resume reviews from local human resources representatives, and individual written references for "all employees."
Some former Testronic employees have accused the company of "sabotage"While Testronic is one of many companies to lay off game industry workers in 2025, it's one of the few to face vocal backlash from former employees. In July, employees of Secret 6 (Testronic's Madrid-based subsidiary it acquired in 2022) claimed that the UK-based company deliberately slowed down client outreach and denied them any resources for securing new contracts. They told Game Developer that it appeared their new parent company was stifling incoming work in order to drive clients to its new Manila-based subsidiary—which is reportedly far cheaper to operate than its Spanish office.
Then in September it announced the closure of its Belgrade-based studio while making plans to lay off 4.8 percent of all employees.
This all followed another major slim-down for Testronic, which sold off Dungeons of Hinterberg publisher Curve Studios—as well as its in-house development studios—to Nazara Technologies earlier in May. Curve and Testronic were both subsidiaries of Catalis Group, though that name has now been retired, leaving Testronic as the company on top of the organization chart.
That's a year of dramatic change for an external development resource provider. Unfortunately it's likely to be a traumatic change for the many workers now without jobs.
