Most people in the games industry are now aware that Warren Spector’s studio, Junction Point, has been closed down by parent company Disney. Junction Point had a too-brief history, and produced just two games. One, Epic Mickey, saw middling critical success, but was a genuine commercial hit as a Nintendo…
Read MoreSad news for the games industry today; THQ has officially declared bankruptcy. The company has been struggling for well over a year now, of course, and the warning signs that it was in shut-down process have been coming thick and fast for months. Despite that we all hoped it could…
Read MoreEurocom has been around for 25 years and made some genuine classic games in its history, and has now announced that it is shutting down. The company had previously announced that it was scaling back its workforce to focus on mobile gaming. The 42 remaining staff that it had retained…
Read MoreMore unfortunate news on the Zynga front; the once-darling of social gaming has announced it will close its Boston office and lay off five per cent of its global workforce. This also puts its Japan and UK offices in immediate danger. In a memo circulated to staff, Zynga CEO, Mark…
Read MoreThanks to our friends at Nintendo Nation, there was a bit of bad news on the wire this morning – THQ is shutting its Australian office. The Darksiders 2 publisher had already shut down multiple Australian development studios, and was functioning purely as a marketing and logistics function in Australia,…
Read MoreYet more evidence that the free-to-play model is the future for MMOs, it seems, with Funcom’s highly-rated The Secret World crashing miserably. The subscription MMO has sold just 200,000 copies since release, and has been blamed for some less-than-positive financial results for the developer. This is despite it having a…
Read MoreIt looks likely that OnLive is on the way out. There’s a story over at Forbes from late last week that claims there have been massive layoffs at the Cloud gaming company, and when you consider that OnLive’s greatest rival, Gaikai, just got acquired by Sony reducing your resources while…
Read MoreWe often hear about how the iOS $0.99 app, as well as Free-to-Play and in-app purchases are a bit of a saving grace for some of the challenges that game developers are currently facing in the market. With the big studios all over the world closing, many developers are taking…
Read MoreThanks to commenter, Malek Teffafa, for clarifying the situation for us with a link to a VG 24/7 story. As we’d previously reported, Max Payne 3 developer, Rockstar Vancouver, is closing down. This much remains true. The good news, however, is that it’s closing down to merge with the Rockstar…
Read MoreAussie developer, Paul Turbutt, had a great little game on his hands with Star Hammer Tactics: a fun little strategy game that was a bit of a critical hit on the PlayStation Minis service. Then he released the game on the Apple App Store. Now he designs mining software for…
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