Today brought some sad news indeed: 2K Games has shut down its Canberra-based development studio, 2K Australia. 2K Australia was best known for the very good Borderlands: The Pre Sequel, a popular PlayStation 3 game that was recently re-released on the PlayStation 4 as part of The Handsome Collection. But…
Read MoreSony’s PlayStation Mobile service never quite lived up to its potential. It was originally conceived as a way for Sony to try and compete with the likes of Apple with its download platform for small downloadable games and apps, and, more importantly, it was part of an attempt to bring…
Read MoreEA has quietly announced that it has shut down its Emeryville development studio. Gamastura noted a tweet from the designer of SimCity, Guillaume Pierre, that everyone from the studio was “out of a job”. In response, EA confirmed that the studio was being closed, but stated that Maxis franchises would…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Mid-tier developer, Zombie Studios, has announced that it has shut its doors. But not for the reasons that we’ve seen so many developers close down in recent years. Zombie Studios is no more simply because the owners are retiring. This is good news for people looking…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. In a depressing reminder that squeezing margins and escalating budgets are killing mid-tier developers and publishers, bitComposer Entertainment has announced that it has gone insolvent and needs to find some investors. Quickly. The developer, started in 2009 behind such titles as Jagged Alliance and Stalker and…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Airtight Games, the developer behind Murdered: Soul Suspect, Dark Void and Quantum Conundrum, has closed up shop, according to a report on Gamesindustry.biz. Apparently the shutdown of the Redmond headquarters has advanced quite far down the line, with the office equipment already up for sale. It’s…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. It’s no secret; in recent years the Australian games industry has been struggling. A high dollar and increases in the cost of living has lead to studio closures and as a result the number of game developers working here is a fraction of what it once…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Most publishers wait for a game’s online community to really die before switching off the servers. But not Nintendo. Oh no. On May 20, 2014, it’s switching off its Wi-Fi Connection rendering everything from Mario Kart Wii to the DS Pokemon games unplayable online. “As of…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. An unspecified number of employees at Sony Santa Monica, the developer of the successful God of War franchise, have been laid off, with Sony claiming a “resource re-alignment” via a press release. This is the second announcement in as many weeks of a major developer of…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Just before Christmas we reported the very sad news that the developer of Rune Factory 4, Neverland, had gone bankrupt, despite its final game (that being Rune Factory 4), being a massive hit on the charts. With the game not yet released in Europe and Australia,…
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