It’s been revealed that all of the developers at Blue Omega, the team behind the recent third-person action shooter Damnation, have been laid off, following not only poor sales of the title, but a multitude of legal conflicts as well.

After two sub-contract developers (Point of View and Velvetelvis Studios) were hired to aid development on Damnation, Codemasters (who handled publishing duties) forcefully removed Blue Omega (the original developers) from the project via official documentation early this year – documentation that Blue Omega dismissed - while one of the sub-contractors, Point of View, would continue to work on the game.

The second sub-contractor, however, Velvetelvis Studios, was blamed for Blue Omega’s failure to meet Codemasters’ deadlines for provision of game code and assets, after Velvetelvis’ delivery of “unacceptable,” “unfinished” and “untimely” work cost Blue Omega valuable development time, forcing them to hire on Point of View as a sub-contract developer in the first place.

Well, the main take-away point here is that, unfortunately, the developers at Blue Omega no longer have jobs, but the legal battles over Damnation and its developers will probably continue for some time to come.

Source: Shacknews