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News Bloomberg: Take-Two shutters Intercept Games (Kerbal Space Program 2) and Roll7 (OlliOlli World, Rollerdrome)
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Roll7's getting shuttered but hey, at least Take-Two made sure to drop $460 million on frikkin Gearbox last month just to rub even more salt in the wound
No money in the budget for fun or creative games I guess, what the world really needs is even more Borderlands
No money in the budget for fun or creative games I guess, what the world really needs is even more Borderlands
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Roll7 wasn't a huge studio, I hope they will regroup outside of Take Two.
But incredibly stupid move to shut it down after one failure. And I should remind them that they didn't even bother to port Rollerdrome to Switch, where it could have been a good seller like OlliOlli World was.
But incredibly stupid move to shut it down after one failure. And I should remind them that they didn't even bother to port Rollerdrome to Switch, where it could have been a good seller like OlliOlli World was.
Hailinel
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Likely related:
www.gamesindustry.biz
Take-Two reportedly closing its Seattle office
Take-Two appears to be preparing to close its Seattle office this summer, likely as part of the recently announced layo…
www.gamesindustry.biz
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I thought the Kerbal developers were indie. I guess not.
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I thought the same about Roll7 and did a double take at the headline.
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Very cool to fuck over and gut Uber/Star Theory and then shut down the studio built on its corpse four years later. Fuck you.
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menx64
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Borderlands as possible game/tv show makes all money sense.
But the other moves are just making the industry to feel smaller and smaller. Very risky. A bad timed or bad impression of a new game seems to put devs out of work in a bit. No room for experiments, new things...
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They are indie. The Kerbal 2 developers were not indie.
The level of fuckery here is complicated, but Take-Two bought the Kerbal IP in exchange for handling the console ports. They then contracted Uber Entertainment (Monday Night Combat) for Kerbal 2 while Squad continued on Kerbal 1.
Uber changed its name to Star Theory, and the Take-Two executed a move to intentionally bankrupt the studio and then hire the team members one-by-one instead of acquire the studio and pay the founders. They started a new internal studio from the pieces.
That studio is Intercept. Apparently Kerbal 2 has been so deeply fucked that late in the process, Squad starting managing Kerbal 2. I have no idea of Squad will continue to function handling Kerbal 2, or remain solvent and independent without Take-Two money, but they remain a technically independent studio. Intercept was just a bunch of victims of Take-Two horseshit, jerked around for years and now kicked to the Kerb.
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Lay-offs coming from companies that are swimming in cash already piss me off.
Knowing these lay-offs include people who worked on OlliOlli World makes me even angrier.
Screw those greedy corporate overlords and shareholders.
Knowing these lay-offs include people who worked on OlliOlli World makes me even angrier.
Screw those greedy corporate overlords and shareholders.
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pragmatic is this slap erratic catfish is
With the kind of writing I experienced from Borderlands 2 up through whatever that mess Tiny Tina, best case is a single season on Prime that cuts out the last four episodes for a double feature finale.
I'd watch it out of sheer curiosity. Aren't most kids who grew up with Borderlands in their mid twenties? Is the humor even relevant now?
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What’s even more baffling is that they wanted to release the game first but decided to delay it for a year. Even then the game turned out to be Donkey dung
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so uhhh weird update. They are now claiming they DIDN'T
www.ign.com
Take-Two CEO on Intercept, Roll7: 'We Didn't Shutter Those Studios' - IGN
Earlier this month, reports surfaced that Take-Two was closing OlliOlli World developer Roll7 and Kerbal Space Program 2 developer Intercept Games. But when we asked Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick why these closures happened in a call today, he said, "We didn't shutter those studios."
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It's a "well, no, but actually yes" kind of response. The piece already points out that the workforce (at least some of it) could've been integrated into another studio, Private Division.so uhhh weird update. They are now claiming they DIDN'T
Take-Two CEO on Intercept, Roll7: 'We Didn't Shutter Those Studios' - IGN
Earlier this month, reports surfaced that Take-Two was closing OlliOlli World developer Roll7 and Kerbal Space Program 2 developer Intercept Games. But when we asked Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick why these closures happened in a call today, he said, "We didn't shutter those studios."
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careful, my head was spinning from reading those comments
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i mean they've lied and done this before so their word means nothing here tbh.so uhhh weird update. They are now claiming they DIDN'T
Take-Two CEO on Intercept, Roll7: 'We Didn't Shutter Those Studios' - IGN
Earlier this month, reports surfaced that Take-Two was closing OlliOlli World developer Roll7 and Kerbal Space Program 2 developer Intercept Games. But when we asked Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick why these closures happened in a call today, he said, "We didn't shutter those studios."
