Word broke yesterday of lay-offs at Upper Deck, and today this was posted by an ex-employee on his Facebook wall:

[easybox]"Upper Deck Entertainment has officially ceased to be as of today. Everyone in the dept and lots of other folks were laid off today, myself included."[/easybox]

With the loss of Yu-Gi-Oh! and World of Warcraft we knew they were going to be struggling, but had hopes that their upcoming 'Marvel Superstars' but that game certainly seems to be in purgatory. We will see if the newly merged Disney/Marvel takes the game back internally and makes it happen or if it is going to fail.

Update 11:23pm EST: ICv2 contacted Upper Deck concerning the layoffs to which Upper Deck issued the following statement.

[easybox]“With the recent changes to Upper Deck’s business, Upper Deck is in the process of reorganizing the Company’s structure. The new organizational structure will make Upper Deck more efficient and better positioned going forward. For competitive reasons the Company does not share publicly its internal organizational structure. Upper Deck’s entertainment division is not being 'shut down.' Upper Deck has several upcoming entertainment releases and the Company expects to remain in the entertainment category.”[/easybox]