Bizarre Creations gone?
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Just saw this posted at another forum:
http://twitter.com/#!/taswell/statuses/4593477140619264
someone from www.giantbomb.com apparently saying that Bizarre Creations is being closed down?
Sucks! condolences if you were there. I was actually thinking of applying in the new year!
http://twitter.com/#!/taswell/statuses/4593477140619264
someone from www.giantbomb.com apparently saying that Bizarre Creations is being closed down?
Sucks! condolences if you were there. I was actually thinking of applying in the new year!
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IMO they were one of the few big studios left in the UK, which really is becoming one of the worst countries in game development now. It's genuinely sad to see. Hope everyone comes out of it as good as possible...
I noticed there are a few jobs going at Sony Liverpool if any affected are interested.
Had the pleasure of meeting a lot of those guys at GDC this year. Best of luck guys.
Condolences to everybody affected.
Rumor from IGN is that it could be sold, not necessarily shut down. I hope everything for anyone over there works out.
we are talking about bizarre creations not budcat
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/66490
http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/11/16/activision-shuts-down-bizarre-and-budcat-studios/
Good luck to anyone this happened to.
Bizzare was the only company who's racing games I enjoyed anymore.
I hope there is hope of them being sold to maybe Microsoft or something.
he left Budcat a couple months ago.
Aye, but..'tis the season, as we've come to learn in recent years.
I suspect that we will see a handful more in the coming weeks.
Good luck to those affected!
was looking forward to pgr5 was my favourite serious(ish) driving model
http://twitter.com/#!/georgeb3dr
very sad day for developers
Best of luck.
History keeps repeating itself. There aren't many positive examples of companies that have sold themselves from the past. Almost every single one of them has gone down the drain - for reason or another.
I hope everyone out lands on their feet
I just had a look at our job site and Rockstar Leeds and Rockstar North both have a few positions for artists and programmers.
Just hoping that from the ashes of all these companies going down some start ups can emerge- let's face it, the whole boom/bust situation happens a lot in our industry. When I started at Mobius, quite a few UK teams had gone under, was pretty lucky to get my break. Then suddenly it took off again, and so forth.
It does make me wonder if the industry is in safer hands with smaller companies/teams- at least then if one company goes down, it doesn't take out several others. Plus there's the whole self publishing route. We now have means of getting the games out to the masses via the likes of Steam, or XBLA and Playstation store. It is going to make getting an inhouse gig even harder over here, it would be interesting to see how many big companies are still left in the UK.
Anyway, my commiserations go to all the peeps at Bizarre Creations, I hope you guys land back on your feet.
Gutted to hear another good UK developer is gone. PGR3 was the first game I got for the xbox360 where I actually thought next gen was here.
Got invited to apply for a senior character artist position there earlier this year. Very glad I didn't consider it...
As Rick mentioned, I think we're after some artists and programmers here at Rockstar Leeds.
"E-mail from one of my staff first thing this morning - "Thankyou for not selling us to Activision."
JonTT on twitter, http://twitter.com/JonTt
I really hope everyone lands on there feet, terrible timing.
"Tony Hawk: Shred flops with only 3000 units sold in US"
"Activision considers Bizarre Creations sale"
"Activision closes Budcat, axes 88 staff"
"LucasArts confirms new round of lay-offs - Up to 50 staff let go potentially from unannounced project"
Depressing stuff. Seems to be the thing on the run up to new year. I really hope the industry starts improving over the next few years.
Activision closes the studio responsible for the Wii ports of the struggling guitar hero franchise. Really, we're surprised by this?
why did Activision buy a sports game developer and make them their GH port studio?
Good luck to all affected.