LazyPiranha Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Indie game studio Possibility Space shuts down, CEO blames leaks to reporter WWW.ENGADGET.COM Possibility Space, an independent game studio with employees distributed across the globe, was abruptly shut down today. You might know this as the game studio Austin Walker left Waypoint for. A lot of the former employees are posting on the site that shall not be named if you want more information, but the reason the owner is giving is essentially that a Kotaku reporter reached out with questions regarding the game Possibility Space was working on. Some of these details involved publishing and finance info, so the publisher “lost faith” in financing the project, so the game was canceled and the studio closed. Who knows, lots of things are possible, but in a world where details leak to the press all the time, this seems like an insane overreaction. It’s not like a build got out, and the article in question about the game hasn’t even been published. The same umbrella company shuttered Crop Circle Games a few weeks ago after first furloughing people and then letting them know their jobs didn’t exist anymore immediately after GDC. It seems like awfully convenient timing to completely shutter two studios in as many months and to have it somehow be the studio’s fault and the fault of the internet’s favorite website whipping boy as opposed to poor choices from the parent company in any way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 This is the email from the CEO blaming the employees for making him close the studio; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclyp Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Love Austin walker. Hope he lands on his feet soon, selfishly in some capacity where I can hear him talk about stuff more. edit: holy shit @ that email Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 This is an email from last week from the CEO's wife who is herself the ex-CEO of the parent company: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Statements from the now-unemployed: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 39 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Statements from the now-unemployed: I don’t mean to be callous as my sympathies are absolutely with the people who got laid off here but if any CEO says “layoffs are immoral” that’s a red flag that is itself waving several other huge red flags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyPiranha Posted April 13 Author Share Posted April 13 This seems like a clusterfuck from top to bottom. I know people have some opinions about Kotaku, but I find it hard to believe that they would be writing anything in any detail about the conditions or circumstances of her medical issues, and it seems like a wild leap to make. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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