Speaking to Gamasutra, a member of Blue Omega (the team behind Damnation), Geoff Rowland, has officially confirmed that a ‘majority’ of the team has been laid off, although a few members remain, which runs counter to his own Twitter post in late June which stated the ‘entire’ team had been let go.

Nevertheless, there remains the hope that the developer might be able to rehire those that were let go if their recently completed iPhone game, Attack of the Dust Bunnies, performs well in the market. Rowland said:

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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.

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