"Everything he has said with regard to myself and Driveclub is incorrect. It's also libellous.

As Putty (who is a personal friend of mine, and has been for about 25 years) suggests, I left Evo in February for personal reasons. The personal reasons being that my son, who is 4 years old, has been diagnosed with Nephrotic Syndrome, which is a potentially life threatening condition. I live 220 miles (4 hours drive) away from Evolution Studios, and was away from home 5.5 days a week. Given the circumstances, I could not continue to work there."

More at the link: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=106121033&postcount=1393

Famousmortimer has been banned from NeoGaf.

He wasn´t that trustworthy afterall, so I would take the rest of his posts on the matter with a grain of salt.

poor kid...

Valid reason for sure but still worry some just by the amount of people leaving Sony around the same time... Hope his Son gets better though

Thank god that guy is gone. Every subsequent thing he posted sounded less and less likely.

And it sounds like a horrible situation for that dev, ugh :(

Thats one shitty headline.

Does anyone have a better idea ?

Good. He was using what little info he did have as a platform to make his other opinions more important.

Well that's sad :( Still, good on him for leaving to look after his son.

Wow that sucks. Wish him all the best in beating it. Couldn't imagine if one of my kids had a big disease.

without insiders we would run out of things to talk about lol

I expected his kid gets better... if it was me then I will do the same... work in a place near home to take care of my family.

He said a little mre too...

"Driveclub is a great game, and the direction hasn't changed since my departure. This has been confirmed by SONY in various press releases over recent days.

I have no problem in dealing with very large projects, as I've been working in the games industry for the last 19 years, and have worked on some very prestigious titles, so there is genuinely no truth to anything posted by Mr Dodds at all. My departure (and indeed the setup of my 'indie' operation, BigRedSwitch) is 100% driven by family necessity, not some professional failing on my part.

I left SONY on very good terms. There is no animosity there, and I was absolutely nothing to do with the recent redundancies - in fact, the news of those redundancies was probably linked on here before I knew about them.

The games industry is a tough place at the moment. My circumstances with my son mean that I've had to leave secure work in order to try to make my own way in the world. This may entail getting another job. With people who obviously know nothing about the situation blackening my reputation for the sake of internet 'fame', this could be made much more difficult. It's nothing less than trolling.

I've contacted Mr. Dodd on his email address on his site. Due to the factual inaccuracy of his statements, I've informed him that he needs to remove the statements and apologise for the damage they have caused, as posting incorrect information and claiming it's true is quite simply libel.

I'm sure you can all appreciate just how difficult things are for myself and my family at the moment. I'd genuinely appreciate it if you can take my statements as word from the origin, and realise that there has been no big cover-up when it comes to my departure from SONY/Evo.

Thanks, all.

Col."