WBIE cuts into Surreal, Monolith, Snowblind

PLEAAAASSSEEEE!!!! FINISH THIS IS VEGAS ALREADY!!!!!

Dont mess with lith. These guys have one of the better track records of any studio. A little under-sung but all in all, great games. NOLF, Fear, Shogo, Tron2.0, Condemned, Blood (I think). Lith means good gaming.

wbie seems inexperienced at managing games studios. they should have gobbled up a game corp, then let them managed the studios they currently own.

I want moar FEAR!

I wouldn't mind seeing F.E.A.R. 3 and Condemned 3 come out of Monolith, hopefully the layoffs won't adversely affect that...

"Monolith has been at work on an unannounced project following the launch of F.E.A.R. 2 in February 2009." Here's hoping it's Condemned 3. That's seriously one of the most underrated series of this gen, and I for one have been dying to see the conclusion.

Yes they did develop Champions. Considering they are no longer affliated with Sony Online Entertainment, as evident by this article, I highly doubt there will ever be a Champions of Norrath 3.

i might be remembering it wrong, but didn't Snowblind have a hand in developing the Champions of Norrath series? Hope that doesn't mean there will be no Champions 3...

No wonder haven't heard about This is Vegas in awhile.

Looks like another day of further setbacks :( .

Uh-oh, more layoffs.

Most of the positions that get scrubbed after a company buys out another company are upper management that tends to be very useless or can be delegated to other people. The people that are hustling and making it happen only loose the jobs when the company is shut down outright. I noticed that in my company when at one point I had 5 different people I reported to because of my different responsibilities. It has been cut down to 2 through shifting locations and getting rid of some titles and stuff like that....

I don't know about their more recent projects, but I wince whenever anything happens to Snowblind, the creator of Dark Alliance and Champions of Norrath (fantastic candidates, in terms of design, for a console MMORPG).

cool,

Monolith makes pretty good games, I hope Warner Bros isn't just cutting staff to squeeze the life and productivity out of the remaining people. After all, handling redundancies to some may mean just cutting the staff and making everyone work twice as hard.

a previously leaked WBIE release scheduled had FEAR 3 (and a few other titles like Scribblenauts 2) on it as in development

This Is Vegas was one of the few games I've been looking forward to. Needless to say, this is disappointing news for me.

While a part of me truly sympathizes with all these people having their jobs cut due to downsizing, the other, more devilish part of me thinks that perhaps if these dev studios worked a little harder to put out quality products, they would not have their studios trimmed in this fashion. F.E.A.R. 2 seemed to ride off of the coattails of the first title, and therefore did absolutely nothing new. In fact, what the game did do seemed lackluster and did not hit nearly as hard as the innovations of the first F.E.A.R. This is Vegas just seems like a bad idea, and it has ever since it was announced. I have lived in Vegas, and the downtown areas, once you can see past all the glitz and glam, are truly trashy and nothing to make a fun game out of.

Although i feel for the people that were laid off, increased collaboration has got to be a good thing right?

Same here oneligas, as I would like to see the story continue (kind of like waiting for HL2: Episode 3). Plus This is Vegas actually looked interesting, yet it seems to keep getting kicked back. Oh well, I will continue to wait and see.

i hope this does not stop FEAR 3 from being made