KevinCow said:Silicon Knights is next.
Well, Too Human was released at the end of august right ? Well, in europe it's gotten its price officiallt slashed beginning of october .....
KevinCow said:Silicon Knights is next.
Your point is? Or do you believe that them not paying you and thus breaking the contract entitles you to spread around internal information that can put the company in serious trouble?RandomVince said:It's a broken contract if you dont get paid, surely?
Rayne.S said:Well, Too Human was released at the end of august right ? Well, in europe it's gotten its price officiallt slashed beginning of october .....
KevinCow said:Silicon Knights is next.
EatChildren said:All they need to do is make Eternal Darkness 2 and Ill buy enough copies to keep them alive for the next 10 years.
i cant be arsed to check but i'm sure the website used to say to licence musyx contact nintendo, so that was probably a one time deal that f5 got paid for a long time agoJoshuaJSlone said:Wow.
I would've hoped licensing things like MusyX and their DivX ports would've continued bringing in money, especially as "GameCube" development has picked up; but I guess they can't support a company on their own.
F#A#Oo said:Ditto...
I think SK hinted to such a project before...so it could very well be in the pipeline...though knowing SK it will be on the PS4/X-Box 720/Wii 2...
legend166 said:Surely they weren't even making Kid Icarus. For how long Matt has been pushing that rumour, Nintendo would have most likely invested a fair amount of cash, and I doubt they'd just let the company collapse. Matt's probably just full of crap.
Sucks for the people that lost their jobs.
frankie_baby said:funding for one project is not gonna keep a developer afloat when its working on several
frankie_baby said:funding for one project is not gonna keep a developer afloat when its working on several
Smiling Bandit said:they won't exactly be missed by the industry.
Wait, what?Shiggy said:(I'm talking about the Lair engine on Wii in particular).
EatChildren said:This is true, but unless a Factor 5 Kid Icarus was looking truly aweful I cant see Nintendo bailing out so quickly. Even in financial trouble Factor 5 could scrap all projects and focus on the single Nintendo title, and current finances (trouble aside) coupled with Nintendo’s support for their own bloody IP should be enough to keep the company afloat for the duration of development.
That "Eggwhatever" named guy said that they had a even better engine than Lair's for their Wii title.Jocchan said:Wait, what?
Jocchan said:Wait, what?
Jocchan said:Wait, what?
tell that to left field, silicon knights, Kuju EntertainmentIf anything when Nintendo have your back you will always be safe. They provide guidance, financial backing and above all a fanbase that can eat up your products through sheer loyalty....
element said:tell that to left field, silicon knights, Kuju Entertainment
Aren't those pro examples, though, of companies whose games had more exposure and put up bigger numbers with Nintendo IP/publishing?element said:tell that to left field, silicon knights, Kuju Entertainment
Nuclear Muffin said:All of which happened after they left Nintendo (Oh and Kuju aren't doing too bad at all so far!)
Hope that Factor 5 can survive the fall, there's a lot of talent in that company (At least from a tech perspective)
Kuju died? The Nintendo-focused branch of Kuju still lives on as Headstrong Games seems to be doing quite well right now.element said:tell that to left field, silicon knights, Kuju Entertainment
Shiggy said:Kuju is still working with Nintendo, or were their projects cancelled?
EatChildren said:Theyre making House of the Dead: Overkill.
Shiggy said:Before renaming to Headstrong they had 3 games in development, 2 for a first party publisher and the third game probably was HotD.
Nuclear Muffin said:One was Batallion Wars 2, the other has not been revealed (But it's probably a downloadable title)
(BWii was the game which was revealed back then)Welcome to Kuju London! The London office was opened in 2000 as the second of five Kuju studios, and has three games in development for a first party publisher, two of which are yet to be announced.
Shiggy said:Well it said on their website:
(BWii was the game which was revealed back then)
And in a more recent article about Kuju they said that they have 3 games in development. So one of them is HotD and the other two aree still for Nintendo?
They started in Germany, but in the mid-90s they moved to California; it wasn't a separate branch.LiquidMamba said:IIRC, Factor 5 opened up a new studio in California, but was based out of Germany. Does this news just affect the California studio, or all of Factor 5?
There were rumors a while ago, around this or last GC, that Factor5 was opening a new studio in Germany. They were already assembling a team and looking for a location back then according to the rumor. If this rumor is true, the German studio might survive, even if Factor5 USA goes out of business.JoshuaJSlone said:They started in Germany, but in the mid-90s they moved to California; it wasn't a separate branch.
2real4tv said:Wasn't Lair fully funded by SONY?
Bluemercury said:If Nintendo i ruinining gaming Sony seems to be killing the ones who make them......2 down....:lol
charlequin said:So how many more developers are going to have to go down like this before people start to actually believe that the industry's business model is some seriously fucked bullshit and the current tech acceleration is unsustainable?
ZeroGravity said:From Matt-IGN on the message boards over at IGN:
http://boards.ign.com/nintendo_wii_general_board/b8263/175069162/p1/?1
wait what's the other one?Bluemercury said:Two companies close down because of 2 PS3 high profile invested games(failures)......we just need to wait more to see whos next.....
xfactor said:wait what's the other one?