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alfredofroylan on 11 February 2010

Sems like selling more than 2 million copies is not enough for Activision. Apparently Canadian developer Radical, had a second layoff this morning:

From what I'm told they would still have one team? Not sure if thats from rehiring/transfers after the Acti-merger though. Somebody outside the company said they had 150-200 folks prior to today's events.

Back in 2008 they layoff 100 employees, if this new layoff is true the studio is mostly a shell.

 



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SaviorX on 11 February 2010

It depends on how many people they are laying off this time.

I guess 1.9 million copies isn't worth the investment.



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alfredofroylan on 11 February 2010

Well it's official but seems like Activision is sweping the house quite hard

http://www.vg247.com/2010/02/11/rumor-activision-to-lay-off-staff-at-neversoft-radical-and-close-luxoflux/

So radical has layoff, neversoft too and Luxoflux (Vigilante 8, Kung Fu Panda, Transformers) will be closed



Stefan.De.Machtige on 11 February 2010

Sad.

Selling 2 million isn't good enough?



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Strategyking92 on 11 February 2010

Oh great, now all we get from acti blizz are WoW expansions.



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jammy2211 on 11 February 2010

Odd choice, I get the impression Activision never really wanted this studio in the first place from the merger so it was probably just a matter of time.



woopah on 12 February 2010

RedOctane have now been closed down and Underground development has also faced seriouys layoffs



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Strategyking92 on 12 February 2010
woopah said:
RedOctane have now been closed down and Underground development has also faced seriouys layoffs

well that's a fucking great way to reward those guys that helped bring you that GH cash cow.



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KungKras on 12 February 2010

Why are Blizzard still hanging with Activision?



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Soleron on 12 February 2010
KungKras said:
Why are Blizzard still hanging with Activision?

I hope they do a 'all the good people leave and start a new studio' thing. Then Activision can make Warcraft and Starcraft games until they're as frequent and unimaginative as CoD or GH, and we can get the game design talent doing what made Blizzard games great.