austin_walker

hopefully they do something useful with all of the useful assets and code, release it to the community... but they won't.

Here's what Bypass Paywalls Clean¹ gets me:

Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. plans to shut down two subsidiaries as part of a mass layoff across its divisions, according to documentation reviewed by Bloomberg.

The first outfit is London-based Roll7, developer of the action game Rollerdrome, according to a note to staff. Take-Two plans to close the studio and will offer severance agreements to its staff.

The other is Seattle-based Intercept Games, maker of the space flight simulation game Kerbal Space Program 2, according to a notice filed with the Washington State Employment Security Department Monday. The notice revealed that Take-Two > plans to close an office in Seattle and cut 70 jobs, or roughly the number of people who worked for Intercept Games.

Last month, Take-Two said it would lay off 5% of its staff or around 600 workers. Both shuttered offices were part of Private Division, a label of Take-Two that was founded in 2017 to publish small and mid-sized games. Other staff under Private Division also lost their jobs as part of the layoffs.

Alan Lewis, Take-Two’s vice president for communications, said in a statement that the company "is not providing additional details" on the layoffs announced in April and that it "continues to make updates to Kerbal Space Program 2."

The video game industry has faced widespread cutbacks over the past year, with companies including Sony Group Corp., Electronic Arts Inc. and Microsoft Corp. slashing jobs and shuttering subsidiaries.

(Adds comment from Take-Two in second-to-last paragraph.)

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On fucking May Day of all days.