Midway CFO departs as Austin shop trims staff

Midway since MK haven't make a decent game, that's why.

Well, I think another big Midway mistake was abandoning the Hitz and Blitz series, and I mean the real Hitz and Blitz series with the crazy turbo charged arcade action, not those wanna be sport sim pieces of crap. Anyhow, they have quite a few worthy titles, like Ready to Rumble, The Suffering, Gauntlet, Shadow Hearts, Xenosaga, they just need to do a better job promoting their games, for instance, it didn't help that when you make an RPG series like Shadow Hearts that you make the 2nd and 3rd games easy to find cheap but people can only buy the 1st game online new for like $140. And Stranglehold was a cool idea for cans of the cult classics like Hard Boiled and The Killer, 'cause they love John Woo and Chow Yun Fat, but they're not something that's really pop culture enough for everyone to embrace. At this point, they need to merge with someone bigger and cheaply.

Hrm...not good. I would have thought that Epic would be eating their fingers right now, considering if this Publisher goes down, so does their Publisher for UT3, which is currently the game they're using for revenue themselves.

I Blame pricing. Pricing games at 50 dollars was bad enough but 60 for new gen just digs holes for yourself because people now have less money to spend on videogames because the cost of upgrading hardware and software is so much for keeping up to date that games people play generally are the better reviewed games. Otherwise you would be wasting time playing bad games that cost a lot.

Midway's last good games, I think, were The Suffering, Psi-Ops, and NBA Jam on the Genesis. If they would just get themselves together, stop fooling around with good ideas and bad engines, and get to making a quality game again...ya know, like the damn Psi-Ops sequel already!!!...then we'll be in a good place.

BRING BACK "NHL HITZ" and THE REAL "NFL BLITZ"... non of that league poop.

he should not just quit but kill himself in shame 4 the crap they sell

well i haven't seen a good midway game in a while ut3 doesn't count it was developed by epic

BlackSite: Area 51 was awful... I hope Midway can get out of this bind

Midway only cares about 2 franchises and does nothing to think outside that box. As an Austinite I hope they fix it before they shut down Midway Austin all together. Personally I think someone should buy them out for a hundred bucks and cut their losses. Lots of talented people are wasting away there because they have **** timetables. Shape up or Ship out Midway.

@vampiredust99 - I thought Stranglehold was pretty darn good, but you're right, a lot of their stuff was rushed like Hour of Victory and Area 51.

Aside from UT3, most of Midway's games have been s*** as of late. They need to focus on quality not rushing out turd like Area 51

Hopefully this is a sign that Midway will get their stuff in order. We're now a long ways removed from when they put-out quality games in the mid to late nineties. And yes, we do need the 360 version of UT3 to come out.

while I am what you'd generally call a sony fanboy, I totally agree with you that it was a really bad move...

well, they were stupid to give the PS3 a timed exclusive on UT3, as it would have really helped their sales to have it out before holidays on the X360