Acti-Blizz to Radical Entertainment: "Sorry, you're in half now"

After the recent news that not only has Midway been reducing their staff count, NCSoft and High Moon Studios face employee terminations and Scarface 2 has unofficially been canceled, you’d think we were in for some good news. The industry, and Activision-Blizzard specifically, is not done doling out bad tidings just yet, though.

Activision-Blizzard said in a statement, “Activision Blizzard is committed to making the best games possible and has elected at this time to reduce the number of titles that Radical is developing from four games to two. Therefore, we will be proportionately reducing the size of our studio.”

As a result, Radical Entertainment, known to be currently working on free-roaming action game Prototype, has had its staff reduced almost by half, according to some reports. This would then follow the news of Scarface 2’s cancellation as Radical were said to be developing the follow-up to the original, which Radical also developed. Radical will also be developing future Crash Bandicoot titles.

Is this the end of the fallout from the Activision Vivendi merger, or are we just getting started?



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