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Forums - Gaming - Team Bondi (LA noire) goes bankrup

alfredofroylan on 05 August 2011

Well after 7 years in development, a lot of bad issues with their employees and a harsh relationship with Rockstar, Team Bondi is no more. But the fun doesn't stop there, the studio didn't make any money from the sales of LA Noire.

Team Bondi are now bankrupt and the remaining staff are going to be bought by KMM, including Brendan McNamara who was instrumental in sealing the deal. Apparently Depth Analysis (the sister company who own the face tech) are also in some trouble after making little to no money off of LA Noire (like TB themselves).

Rockstar own the LA Noire ip, so it will be interesting to see what happens next.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-04-embattled-team-bondi-seeking-buyer

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=439822



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badgenome on 05 August 2011

What a clusterfuck.



Torillian on 05 August 2011

Well that certainly brings Pacther's "crazy hours are ok because they'll all make a big pot of money at the end" statement into question



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Jay520 on 05 August 2011

WOW, over 3.5m in 3 months. I though they made a fair amount of profit. Too bad I guess.



Jay520 on 05 August 2011
Torillian said:
Well that certainly brings Pacther's "crazy hours are ok because they'll all make a big pot of money at the end" statement into question

And we all know: Patchet predicts the opposite of what actually happens. This leads me to believe: Patcher bankrupted Team Bondi!



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Khuutra on 05 August 2011
Torillian said:
Well that certainly brings Pacther's "crazy hours are ok because they'll all make a big pot of money at the end" statement into question


I think you mistyped there

You have quotation marks, and I assume you are quoting somebody, but all I see is poop.



Xen on 05 August 2011

Called it.



dsage01 on 05 August 2011

But LA Noir is one of the best selling games this year! That is just really sad



Linkasf on 05 August 2011

They were better off making an Ipad game.



wilco on 05 August 2011
Jay520 said:
WOW, over 3.5m in 3 months. I though they made a fair amount of profit. Too bad I guess.


Didn't the game cost about 100mil to make? It would need to do GTA numbers for TB to make money. I'm sure any profit the game makes will go to rockstar/take two.