Cohort Studios announces closure

:O Bizarre Creations is gone? That really sucks, I loved their games. :(

They developed The Shoot, nuff said......

Such a shame when this happens :(

These sorts of small studios are a great place for people to start their careers, and it's sad that they're seemingly all closing down. After all the pushing of games-related university courses a few years ago, lots of people are coming out of education and finding the job market a lot smaller than when they began. The tax breaks certainly would help, but the government don't seem to have any plans of helping the industry. It's hard enough to find employment nowadays, but when already niche roles are being reduced by the dozen almost every week it's a very bad state of affairs.

meh crappy companies going out of business are never sad. i do feel for the employees though but thats the way the video game industry is.

"TIGA voiced...Government's failure to undertake in a comprehensive assessment to determine the benefits of games tax relief. ...Wilson, emphasised...no guarantees Cohort Studios could have been saved...measures could...avoid such unfortunate circumstances." I admit he's trying to get some sympathy or show the media that something could have been done, which is part of his job at TIGA, I'm sure. I can easily understand that any government has BETTER things to do than provide assessments and identitfy benefits to save one little "drop-in-the-bucket" company -- video games are of low importance to the general public health/welfare. It wouldn't have saved them anyway; a TAX RELIEF would somehow tip the scales. They were obviously already in the hole or at least heading that way and their closure was most likely inevitable unless they starting making some good profit. Speaking of which, I have played Burnout Paradise for PC (a terrible port, by the way) and its just an awful game. I don't understand why it's rated so highly. I have played past Burnout games and they had their place/time. I've also tried the demo for "The Shoot" after getting my Move -- hardly interesting or entertaining. I'm all for TIGA trying to do their part, but you can't support every company. Some just need to die off so quality stays high.

@MXVIII It doesn't say that at all. In fact it states they don't even know if tax relief would have helped at all. "there were no guarantees Cohort Studios could have been saved". The PSN outage is partly to blame, game can't be released so the company can't make money.

@syam32245340 Actually I think the article blatantly states it was lack of tax relief.

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one of the side effect of PSN outage...