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Rumor: Visceral Studios Melbourne office closure on Monday
Posted: 17.09.2011 04:31 by JonahFalcon Comments: 3
A staffer in the Melbourne branch of Visceral Games claim that the branch will be closed on Monday. According to the source, the Melbourne office had been working on a major Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game for the last three years, which has been recently canceled.


The informant also claims that EA Games vice president Patrick Soderland, formerly from DICE, decided the game would be unprofitable and summarily canceled the game and closed the studio. However, EA’s other Australian studios, Firemint and Iron Monkey, will not affected by the closure.

EA Visceral Melbourne worked on and produced Dead Space, Godfather 2, and Dante’s Inferno.
Source: Kotaku AU

Comments

By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Sep 17, 2011
herodotus
Looks like detention seekers aren't the only ones headed for offshore processing here. So many Aussie branch closures - sigh....
By Revan (SI Elite) on Sep 18, 2011
Revan
I thought those games did pretty good in the market though? :S
By SiyaenSokol (SI Elite) on Sep 19, 2011
SiyaenSokol
That is a pity, I thought that Visceral Games were great!