It's starting to get a little depressing, having to write post after post about developers shutting down. Yet, here we are again. In a post on the IGN forums, Matt Casamassina claims an inside source has revealed to him that the developer behind Lair took their ball and went home on Friday.
The company, which released their first game back in 1988, was also responsible for the Star Wars: Rogue Squadron and Turrican series. Murmurs have been circulating for several months that Factor 5 was developing new Kid Icarus and Superman games.
I'm still classing this as rumor, for the time being, since there's no attributable name to Casamassina's source. Still, with their last game a flop (for good reason), a recent blog post from an artist at Factor 5 claiming dire financial straits and plenty of other devs cutting staff or going under completely, it sounds quite probable.
[Via Kotaku]
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2:00 AM on 12.21.2008
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Hurrah for recessions!
:(
Well it still sucks, just like everything else in the economy. I hate to see this stuff going on as much as anyone else.
No good deed goes unpunished when most gamers apparently just want "The Same F*cking Sports Title {insert current/next year here}" or "The Same First Person Shooter {insert version number here}".
Clover, Bullfrog, Factor-5 (possibly) ... the list goes on, all because they dared to try something new. Very sad precedent.
GTFO. Take your fanboy comments over to kotoku.
agreed
Recession-proof my scrotum.
While I agree with you, I also think that it's up to a game dev to be build games that are both innovative and fun.
I don't care for Factor 5's games. Neither do a lot of other people. So it's no surprise that they're the first to go.