Develop-Online is reporting that up to 20 Rebellion employee's have been let go from the Oxford studio. Rebellion's Derby location is reportedly no more as well. It's been known that the Derby studio has been facing some troubles since the beginning of the year, but a source close to Develop has stated that the studio is all but closed.
Rebellion recently put out Aliens Vs Predator which has done pretty well, especially over in the UK. It's always sad to hear about these kinds of troubles and we'll have to wait to see what the official word is on all of this from Rebellion.
Source: Staff cuts at Rebellion's Oxford HQ [Develop-Online, via Edge -- Thanks, Danny!]
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Always sad to see folks losing their jobs though. I'm sure they'll get a gig at Rare though.
DERP
Anyways, probably dropped some after the main game workload has been done unfortunately. Otherwise a universally respected game in terms of quality.
That said I hope they continue to support the game I already paid $100 for (yes I got the hunter edition). The amount of maps included in AvP is ridiculously small and the survivor maps are just recycled SP levels. I think Survivor would benefit from maps created specifically for the mode. But I guess this is OT.
These guys simply aren't very talented developers. If there was any one developer I'd feel no remorse over people being fired, it's this one.
If this is the rebellion, sign me up as a storm trooper.