Commissar SFLUFAN Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Take-Two Interactive Shuts Down Two Game Studios WWW.BLOOMBERG.COM Seattle’s Intercept Games and London’s Roll7 will be closed. Quote Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. plans to shut down two subsidiaries as part of a mass layoff across its divisions, according to documentation reviewed by Bloomberg. The first outfit is London-based Roll7, developer of the action game Rollerdrome, according to a note to staff. Take-Two plans to close the studio and will offer severance agreements to its staff. The other is Seattle-based Intercept Games, maker of the space flight simulation game Kerbal Space Program 2, according to a notice filed with the Washington State Employment Security Department Monday. The notice revealed that Take-Two plans to close an office in Seattle and cut 70 jobs, or roughly the number of people who worked for Intercept Games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Well sure hope Roll7 lands on their feet as both those games are excellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 KSP2 is in early access. Kinda shitty to close a studio that has a game in EA, particularly given that Steam just changed the rules on refunds of EA games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 Take-Two reportedly shuts down Roll7 and Intercept Games, Private Division suffers layoffs WWW.GAMESINDUSTRY.BIZ More details have emerged about the ongoing layoffs at Take-Two Interactive, with reports suggesting the publisher has … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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