Marvel Snap developer Second Dinner said it is still committed to the game after layoffs and staff departures, with co-founder Ben Brode telling players: "We're still here, still building, still committed to this game and to you." [1]
Brode said the studio had said goodbye to several team members, including its community manager, and that the layoffs were painful decisions meant to help the company keep going rather than a sign it was winding down. Former community manager Griffin Bennett said on X that he had been laid off from Second Dinner and Marvel Snap, while designer Glenn Jones has also recently left the studio. [1]
Brode also said the roadmap Second Dinner shared in March remains unchanged. He said: "The roadmap we shared in March remains the same. This is us making hard decisions to make sure we can keep going, not a sign that we're winding down." [1]
The game has already been through disruption before. Last year, Marvel Snap went offline in the US for more than 24 hours and was pulled from US app stores because of a US ban tied to ByteDance's ownership of Nuverse's parent company. [1]
After the game returned, Second Dinner gave players in-game rewards and said it would find a new publisher to avoid a repeat of the outage. The studio later partnered with Skystone Games as that publisher. [1]
