Kotaku-Electronics Arts has shuffled off Pandemic Studios' Brisbane office, a reliable source tells Kotaku. The Australian developer was best known for Destroy All Humans! and its rumored development of an ill-fated Batman game.
According to the information we were provided, Pandemic's Brisbane staffers weren't necessarily laid off by EA corporate, which purchased the developer alongside BioWare in 2007. Instead, we were told that the studio was "set free" with the down under arm of Pandemic retaining its original IP and even its equipment.
"It was more of a 'Find a new publisher. Good luck.' kind of thing," according to the source. And you can keep the tea kettle, apparently. No mention was made of the fate of the other Pandemic Studios office, which is based in Los Angeles.
Pandemic Studios Brisbane was widely rumored to be hard at work on a video game adaptation of 2008's The Dark Knight. That project, while never officially announced, was also said to be canceled. Speaking to a second source familiar with the project late last year, we learned that a lack of direction and an already massive budget may have lead to EA cutting its losses.
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This wouldn't be an issue if western devs actually made games for the audience they have instead of the one they WISHED they had.
The people they're catering to don't buy games. They will like the tweets but never buy your games, because they aren't, nor will they ever be, gamers.
No. Read this article with insights from Japanese devs: https://www.videogameschron...
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Sega producer Taira Nakamura: https://x.com/tairanakamura... (use Translate)
There are better laws offering more protections for workers in Japan. Instead of firing people, they very noticeably stop hiring people instead - graduates are not getting jobs like they used to. It's still better to have the protections though and ***it shows what these companies would try do to Japanese developers if they could get away with it.*** She's right on this. It's about workers protections. Even if you prefer non-Western games, ***the cost pressures are said to be the same.***
Insomniac had layoffs despite reaching 11m sales on Spider-Man 2 quite quickly. Without protections for workers, big companies have no loyalty and will get rid of you even if you just temporarily become less useful when a game ships and they can rehire later.
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