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It’s just been confirmed that the developer behind racing games Pure and Split/Second, Black Rock Studio, is set to close its doors, following staff reductions at owner Disney Interactive Studios earlier this year.
The news arrives as a result of Black Rock Studio’s next game failing to get the green light for production. An official statement from Disney read:
According to a number of reports doing the rounds, Disney Interactive Studios has begun a company restructuring process and will aim to realign its efforts in the videogame publishing arena by focussing on digital distribution and online games, rather than packaged goods games for retail.
“As part of setting a strategic direction for future success in the digital media space,” read a statement to Variety, “the Disney Interactive Media Group today began a restructuring process.”
This new direction obviously puts major questions over the future of Disney’s current game studios, including Junction Point (Disney Epic Mickey) and Black Rock (Split/Second), and it seems as though some of those questions have already been answered with reports of layoffs across the company.
Sony of Europe has posted an interesting interview with Jason Reid, the producer of Split/Second on their blog, discussing Disney Interactive Studio’s upcoming action racing game, Split/Second.
In the interview Reid discusses the six game modes, framerate as well as environments and Power Plays. He also reveals that developer Black Rock Studios took quite a bit of inspiration from Hollywood and Jerry Bruckheimer to create Split/Second.
Disney Interactive has released a new gameplay trailer for their upcoming action racing game, Split/Second.
Split/Second is due to be released on the 18th of May in North America with Europe following on the 21st of May, and will be available on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
Watch below as chaos erupts on the streets as traps are set and speed rules the lanes in the new Downtown trailer.
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