I assumed La Noire didn't do all that well, due to the fact that Gamestation are selling it new for under £20 now

yeah but after how much spent in cycles of developpement ?

Besides Rockstar dropped them like hot potatoes after the scandals behind their employées abuses .

They probably had created some massive debts in that long development cycle. You can't afford to make mistakes like that.

All the loan sharks in the world can't save a developer that mismanages money like that. You can easily spend 50-100million (see 'Realtime Worlds') making a game, but that doesn't mean money well spent!

They're in trouble because all the expensive costs were covered by Rockstar. Once Rockstar got wind of how things were ran at Team Bondi, they bolted and dropped Team Bondi. Without Rockstar's funding, they're as good as dead. Harsh maybe, but they brought it on themselves after how they treated their employees.

Brendan McNamara is a brilliant writer and director but he should never, ever be in charge of a studio. What he did to those devs was far beyond "crunch", and it went on for, what, 7 years? That's insane.

But I'm glad to see some of that team have come together again to create something new. A psychological thriller sounds right up my alley.

I would day 1 New York or Chicago Noir even LA Noir 2.