Radical Entertainment Goes Under

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Activision wanted to remind everyone that they are still in that "who's more evil" competition with EA.

This could be good news. A lot of studios are closing down these days. Mostly because of douchebag publishers. It will make other studios think twice before they sell out.

 

[Callate]

This is the future. We can't keep this up. The big companies buying up studios and then crushing them into paste when they can't deliver revenues that keep their hulking masters flush... We've seen this over and over again, especially in the last decade. Something has to change, or the AAA market is going to die. I'm not even entirely sure I'll miss it anymore.

 

[Justin Harris]

This is what happens when you limit the platforms that a game is supposed to come out on. I like many other people pre-ordered for PC only to find out it was going to be released three months after the console release. I like most other intelligent people said, "Screw this noise, I wont support this type of behavior. " and canceled my pre-order. I imagine many others did the same.

Sad that the company has gone the way of the second rate joker, Heath Ledger, but perhaps their future business plans wont be "screw the pc gamers" at their new jobs around activision.

 

[Dandark]

This saddens me since I really enjoyed the Prototype games even if the second one destroyed any chance of it having a good story, the gameplay was still fun.

 

[dragonnewby]

Lets see here:

Game budgets are expanding at basically a linear rate, while sales figures are stagnant or falling....

Clearly the only solution to this is to gut every studio not making a CoD game.

I just read from some guy on twitter: "With Radical's closing, Activision now owns 12 internal development studios. 6 of those are working on Call of Duty products".

Don't know if this is true, but if it is, that's something quite interesting.

This is a list of owned Activision studios. Beachhead Studios, Beenox, DemonWare, FreeStyleGames, High Moon Studios, Infinity Ward, Neversoft, Raven Software, Sledgehammer Games, Toys For Bob, Treyarch, and Vicarious Visions.

That's all 12 of them. Of the 12, I know at least 3 of them are working on CoD games, and another 3 wouldn't surprise me.

Neversoft(making new COD titles), Sledgehammer games(making new COD titles), Beachhead Studios(working on COD: ELITE), Raven Software(Making COD DLC), Treyarch(making DLC and new COD titles), Infinity Ward(Making new COD titles and DLC). Six right there.