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Lack of investment blamed for death of subsidiary opened in late 2014
Read More »Japanese dev Agatsuma Entertainment shuts down
Declining revenues lead to Code of Princess studio’s closure after 18 years
Read More »Codemasters closes Malta studio
UK developer/publisher to focus solely on racing games going forward
Read More »Mind Candy shuts Brighton studio
Moshi Monsters firm 'in the process of bringing whole team to London'
Read More »Take-Two shuts 2K China studio
2K parent company Take Two has announced it is closing its Shanghai studio. The company confirmed the above to GamesIndustry.biz, who reports that 2K China – the studio in charge of development on China-exclusive MMO Borderlands Online – has been closed. This office was home to roughly 150 members of …
Read More »2K China closed as Borderlands Online cancelled
150 jobs lost, but Take-Two working to ‘help identify new opportunities within the company’
Read More »Report: Gameloft closes Seattle studio
All game development halted as 15 staff are laid off
Read More »Gameloft has closed seven studios so far in 2015
Publisher undergoing 'ambitious cost reduction program'
Read More »Gameloft has closed seven unprofitable studios in 2015
So far in 2015, French mobile publisher Gameloft has closed seven of its development studios. That’s according to a statement from the company’s CEO Michel Guillemot, which said that the development studios had becoming ‘unprofitable’. These closures are part of what Guillemot describes as ‘an ambitious cost reduction program’. It’s …
Read More »Woolfe dev Grin files for bankruptcy, puts IP up for sale
“It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed.”
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