Blitz Games Studios closing down

You know, I was really hoping for the Epic Mickey series to take off and to possibly even bring back 3D platformers as a mainstream genre. So the fact that Junction Point had expressed consistently throughout development of the first game about how dedicated they were to and how much time was being spent on the game only for the series to rather disastrously flop, on top of both developers of the two entries getting shut down has left me kind of speechless. I haven't played the second, but I still eventually intend on renting or buying it for the Vita so I can have my say on it and to send the once-promising series off. Hope I'll be able to take enough pity on it to look past some of its flaws.

I suspect they were already in trouble before Epic Mickey 2, but that certainly didn't help!

It's a shame that a company folds after such a long time, but honestly I couldn't name a single game they had made - looked them up on wiki, and even then didn't recognise most of their titles.

And that's from someone in the UK whose been gaming 25+ years :(

Shame about the state of UK games companies. They're all in London now with a few exceptions

I'm surprised anyone works in this industry

...Are they the ones who made those Blitz football games for the N64? Those games were awesome....

I feel for the staff as I've been through a very similar situation last year.

It's a very hard thing to get through and the disruption to your life is more than can be said here in a few words.

The very best of luck to those affected.

My eyes aren't that good. I thought I read Blizz! lol too bad

This is very sad news, even if you are not a fan of their work. They were in the business for 23 years and now have to let 175 staff go. While only 50 of that number will go on to do other things.

It is never comfortable reading these things.

I hate it when great studios are shut down and fantastic games are no longer made...

this however is not that, everything will be fine.

It's a pity but if they'd just made better Mickey games, nailing standard core 3D game design elements like the camera, we might not be reading such news about the company shutting down.

Another UK games developer gone down the toilet. Well, I guess nobody gives a damn, especially the Americans who haven't even heard of Blitz Games Studios.

Sad.

Man, I work just down the road from this studio.. I feel for those being let go.. Good luck to you all.

It's always sad when a games developers goes out of business, but I can see plenty more developers going out of business as the industry train rolls on.

Another sign that the casual gamer has fallen away.

The casuals are on tablets. The hardcore are on PC.

The NG consoles will fight over the middle.

They made a game no one bought, then made a sequel to that game and *surprise* no one bought that either.

Why in the world would they make a Mickey game that nobody ask and spend Millions of Dollars to make? Blitz games Studios was deadweight anyways.

OK, they basically fired 125 people and got rid of any depts. Smart move

How stupid do you have to be to port a underperforming game to an underperforming console.