WB Games Seattle cuts staff

If only Monolith didnt get bought by WB. Let Monolith make NOLF3 already.

Brendan, this is a shame. I was really looking forward to playing Gotham City Imposters. I was going to play as Catwoman. Why do all the good game designers get axed? Brendan, you are truly the bearer of bad news, hun.

damit why all the game company go with same phase. by seeing the middle earth trailer its more likely to be LOL, dota, smith style games i play lol and dota but another game with the same concept that sucks developers needs to think and innovate things. They are just recreating the same concept. what they think is if they make a clone they can make profit. they put all the investment staffing and everything in it. If it fails then the guys who put there hard work they loose there jobs. they call it as layoff. stupid concept game company need to think before investing .  How long we people can accept the same clone version.

Nooooo! Monolith! Nooooo!

This game's biggest problem is GFWL. Hands down. If you were one of the few unlucky people to own the game outside of Steam then you'd know how excruciating it was to install the patch that came out not too long ago. Why Warner didn't offer an outside link to download the update is beyond me.

More people need to play Gotham City Impostors on PC! GFWL has patched a bunch of it's BS. Still not perfect, but usable none the less. Hell, I've had more problems with BF3/Origin than with it. And if you ever hear someone say GCI is a COD rip off, they haven't played either a COD or GCI, or/and are full of shhh.

i hate warner bros... THEY CANCELLED THIS IS VEGAS!!!!!! i guess they really hate their seattle studios. i hope WB fails soon...

You've got to be kidding me, Monolith Productions is one of Warner Bros best studios, alongside Rocksteady, Netherealm & TT Games. They should layoff a lot of staff at Snowblind, after War In The North, they should get some punishment for that less than quality game.

good, maybe next time they'll think twice before using G4WL on their games

noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!! Gotham City Imposters is such an awesome game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can someone please exlain to me WHO THE HECK THOUGHT BATMAN NEEDED AND FPS MULTIPLAYER SHOOTER!??! Its like turning Angry birds into fruit snacks and t-shirts... Oh wait.....

Waited for the price drop on GCI but love every mineut of it sad to hear lay off in my home town (Seattle) but thats what  you gotta do to survive in this economy. Thank you WB games for making some kick ass titles 

I really liked Gotham City Impostors, very fun take on the Batman universe. I was there since the beta for it. However I stopped playing it when they launched their Steampunk weapons and gear which I believe broke the game. Poster child for how pay to win can destroy your game.

Well, yeah.  That's how it's supposed to work.  When the workload increases, you hire.  When the workload decreases, you lay off.  That's how every business in every industry operates.

When the game is finished, you reduce headcount.  When it's time to start developing another one, headcount gets increased.

Yeah, these must be lean times for WB, considering how hard their latest blockbuster film is bombing... /sarcasm

Perhaps if they spent more time optimizing these games for the communities playing them, games like Gotham City Impostors would be more top-tier.I think the PS3 version is probably the best one since the community of players is strong (thanks to PS+ giving it away for free). The PC version is turning into a ghost town, though, because the game doesn't play well and isn't as impressive as some of the free-to-play options out there.

pity. gotham city impostors really wasnt a bad game , sad noone plays it now

sad, I wish they'd of kept making FEAR or Condemned games, I loved Monolith games like Tron 2.0, Alien vs Predator 2, again the FEAR and Condemned games that Monolith produced... yeah, sad, I wish WBIE had them making the kinds of games they were good at making instead of having them take on these other projects

What else is new? This happens everyday to various people across the planet.

At least they're not milking Bastion into oblivion

Another day, another entire staff cut.

I would be interested in Guardians of Middle Earth if it weren't console-only.

Let's hope Guardians Of middle Earth is freaking amazing [holds breath] but Gotham City Impostors sucks, as far as character design I would have liked a fully customizable character, not pre set characters at certain levels...freaking lame. I also would have liked choosing my alliance from the beginning and sticking with them, I hate team crap where I'm always switching sides....I don't want to play reds, I wat freaking blues....I don't want top join the villains, I want to join the Batmen [and women :) ] even if this game had all that it's just a generic shooter at it's core and a far cry of what Monolith is capable of....

GCI is a really fun shooter, and as for lag, only on bad weather days for me. Ya'lls internet must SUCK. >:D

Being free for PS Plus users I am able to experience the game without having to pay for it. Feels good man. It's a decent game it's just I'm not sure if it's worthy of being purchased like a lot of games.

Gotham imposters sucked. Cookie cutter FPS with bad connectivity. 

staff reductions? Their punishment must be more severe.

I hope Monolith doesn't die before they get a chance to release another Sequel to Blood.

gotham city impostors could had been a cool fresh and fun IP to kill time with BUT.....wait for it ...wait for it....TATA "games for windows live" ruined the matchmaking and pvp rendering the game pretty much useless, lesson of the day please dont use it and comit financial suicide gaming companies we want to support you but we cant buy broken games.

It's a tight economy, but I'm proud WB is making games. This is better than them shunting their games division altogether.

Oh no, I tried to support my local devs like monolith here in Seattle, but more bad news just keeps coming.  Even my neighbors in Vancouver just got hit again.  This sucks.