I don’t know what to thing about this, their early Mario and Luigi games were really good, but quality started to go downhill, and nobody cared about their remakes, meanwhile Nintendo has kind of abandoned paper Mario, maybe the best they can do is combine botj ips and concentrate on making a great Mario rpg for the switch, as for the guy who suggested that Nintendo should work with SE I really don’t know if they are still capable of making great traditional turn based rpgs.

Bailing out is a tricky affair even if you easily can afford to bail an entity out the are factors you have to take note of for example how was this debt accumulated and why, are the chances of such debt arising again in future etc... This is one reason Rare were sold off as they kept consistently going over budget and weren't efficient adding costs that over time would have become notable, AD here seems to have done the same with their first attempt at a HD project. If anything Nintendo may rather just employ the workers and integrate them into their first party teams if they're interested that would be far cheaper than paying £4m this is why the debt is significant.

Saw this earlier, and it broke my heart.

Alphadream has been on a bad streak lately, with Dream Team and Paper Jam being mediocre to good games.But damn, Mario and Luigi were always consistenly great before them, and M&L was always better than Paper Mario.

Hopefully Nintendo buys them, or just passes the torch to a competent developer.

Speaking of companies with financial trouble, whatever happened to Nippon Ichi Software? Last I heard they were in serious financial trouble back in May. Did they shut down?

Never really liked this series. The humor was too forced for me. It tries so hard to be funny, but in the end it's just annoying.

I would like a Super Mario RPG remake or sequel instead.

I was shocked when I first read the news, I thought they were under Nintendo or something. Hopefully the people who worked there find new jobs as soon as possible.

The only Alphadream game I ever played was Bowser's Inside Story and I really enjoyed it, though I heard anything they released after that was not that good.

Exactly! Heck, they could have released the same graphics as 3ds on the Switch and it would have sold better. And one I'd get, but they remade what, three of them? At least two for sure. I just don't get it. They should have just released the original ones on the eShop for cheap and gotten pure profit from them while they worked on bigger money makers, rather than actually trying to remaster (slightly) DS and Gameboy Advanced games for a dead device. Whoever made that decision is responsible for their downfall.

Working with Nintendo.

Dude, partners in time was the best of the series!! How can you speak these words!!

Sad news but I hope the series continues in some fashion, I actually think the last couple were far to hand holdy and got very bogged down. They fet like they had a lot of filler content 

Sucks that people are losing their jobs, but the Mario & Luigi games have not been very good for a while imo. Bowsers Inside Story was the last great one I think.