The history of Swedish publisher/developer Starbreeze and their continued floundering attempts to stay afloat are long and complicated. The troubles go back far before where we find ourselves today though. As the company sees millions of dollars in failed investments and projects going out the door, with the most notable of these being the maligned
The Culling: Origins, the final attempt to keep The Culling alive, has announced that the game will be shutting down completely in May 2019. Xaviant Games took this version of the early battle royale title free-to-play earlier in 2018 in an attempt to keep it running, but revenue just isn’t coming in fast enough for
According to an announcement today from Senior Vice President at Bandai Namco Landon Nguyen, Bandai Namco Vancouver will be closing down soon. “I’m sad to announce that as of today Bandai Namco Studios Vancouver will be shutting down. I want to thank everyone who came with us on this journey. We shipped some awesome experiences
It’s been a very hard few years for Telltale Games. The developer of iconic adventure games which helped revive a genre was once riding high on the success of Season One of The Walking Dead. Trouble was, they failed to recapture that financial high, and slowly sunk into financial issues over the last couple of
Once an icon of the gaming industry, purveyor of written video game strategy guides, Prima Games will be no more come Spring 2019. The company got its start in 1990 and ran for 28 years printing guides for literally thousands of games. I personally used these for many a JRPG back in the day. The
It’s now an even uglier situation coming out of the closure of Telltale Games, according to reports, the remaining 25 employees that were originally to remain employed with the developer to “fulfill obligations”, those obligations were apparently to complete a version of Minecraft: Story Mode for Netflix. For those unaware, Telltale laid off 225 members
Despite the recent closure of the originally planned developer, Telltale Games, Netflix still wants to move ahead with making a game about their popular horror franchise, Stranger Things. Last week when the news hit that Telltale was reducing their staff from 250 to just 25, a lot of people were shocked. Apparently Telltale was doing
After a report earlier today that Telltale Games was shedding its workforce for a skeleton crew of 25 people, the studio has formally announced that a full closure is indeed in progress. The company has also confirmed that they will be working to fulfill current obligations as best as possible, and that more news about
Update: Citing a report from USGamer, Telltale has effectively canceled the upcoming Stranger Things project in addition to The Wolf Among Us 2. Kevin Bruner, the former co-founder of Telltale Games, has posted a personal statement on his blog titled “Telltale closure”, calling the future of the studio further into question. No official word has been given from
More bad news for the Capcom-affiliated studio in Vancouver this week, as it looks as though the studio could be closed for good soon. A press release on the subject detailed that the studio would be shut down by mid-2019. This isn’t the first time in 2018 that Capcom Game Studio Vancouver has suffered some
Wargaming has closed down their Seattle studio today with the loss of around 150 jobs. An employee told Gamasutra that Wargaming’s CEO announced the studio closure at a surprise all-hands meeting Wednesday morning. Wargaming Seattle was originally Gas Powered Games, a studio headed by Chris Taylor which released popular games like Dungeon Siege and Total
Game designer Cliff Bleszinski, co-founder of Boss Key Productions and a major force behind the development of the Gears of War franchise, is out of the gaming space according to a statement. He’s stepping away to spend time with this family, which he should. No amount of success is worth losing out on the people
Gamespy Technology has long been a name in the games industry. Since their founding in 1997 GameSpy Technology has handled a ton of different backend services and management for a variety of games and developers. The services handled by the company ran the gamut from server hosting and management for multiplayer services, in-game purchases, player
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