Niantic has laid off 8 percent of its staff, canceled 4 internal projects including Transformers: Heavy Metal

Niantic has canceled four different internal projects that were at various points of development and cut eight percent of its current staff. 

As first reported by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, the Pokémon Go developer is set to lay off somewhere between 85 to 90 employees as the company is “facing a time of economic turmoil.”