Tsumea, a website dedicated to game developers based in Australia and New Zealand, has reported that it has credible information indicating that Krome Studios is on the verge of collapse. According to the report, the staff of both development teams operated by Krome have been informed that they will be made redundant on Monday the […]
Robomodo, the studio behind Tony Hawk: Ride, has reportedly been forced to lay off 30-60 team members due to the game’s poor performance. The game sold only 114,000 units in its first month and was panned universally by critics, including Elder-Geek. The studio still has the sequel to the project, Tony Hawk: Shred, which is […]
While we here at Elder-Geek have been reporting on speculative lay-offs coming from the development team of Lucasart’s The Force Unleashed II (and at least one canceled iteration of The Force Unleashed III). Going unconfirmed for several weeks, Lucasarts finally confirmed the downsizing to Gamasutra in an official statement.
In yet another corporate downsizing, The Conduit-dev High Voltage Software has announced that 25 staff members have been let go as part of a downsizing brought on by re-assessment of production requirements. A representative for the company spoke in detail on the lay-offs to IGN.