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Impossible Studios Closing

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A Message from Tim Sweeney on the Epic Games Community Website announces Epic is closing Impossible Studios (thanks nin via Kotaku), the developer they formed just six months ago with staff from Big Huge Games, which went under as part of the bankruptcy of 38 Studios. The Epic Games founder explains "it wasn’t working out," and as a result, the iPad game Infinity Blade: Dungeons is now on hold. Here's word:

We’re closing Impossible Studios.

When former members of Big Huge Games approached Epic last year, we saw the opportunity to help a great group of people while putting them to work on a project that needed a team. It was a bold initiative and the Impossible folks made a gallant effort, but ultimately it wasn’t working out for Epic.

In addition to providing Impossible Studios employees with 3 months of severance pay, we’ll be giving the team the opportunity to form a new company with the Impossible Studios name and the awesome Impossibear logo.

This means that Infinity Blade: Dungeons is now on hold as we figure out the future of the project.

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Re: Impossible Studios Closing

Feb 9, 2013, 13:37

nin

Fantaz wrote on Feb 9, 2013, 04:57:
Their company logo was a bear with wings?? ...

nin wrote on Feb 9, 2013, 03:57:
I'm not sure if you're being serious or sarcastic, but like Lith said, at least they got 3 months. In the past, we've heard stories of management locking the doors while the employees were out at lunch...

It sucks, no doubt. But they got a better deal than some folks. Hopefully they'll get something else lined up soon. Good luck to them.

"... heard stories of management locking the doors while the employees were out at lunch..."

Oh wow.. please tell me who did that, I'd really like to know. Why would they even do that?

I remember hearing about it a number of years ago (I thought here, but I'm still searching). I did find this but I'm not sure if it's the one I was thinking of...




RollinThundr Apr 17, 2013, 12:25: Eh really tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. If you really want to call that trolling sure. Mr. Tact Apr 17, 2013, 12:33: Pretty sure that's the definition of trolling...

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Comment [quote="nin"Feb 9, 2013, 13:37][quote="Fantaz"Feb 9, 2013, 04:57]Their company logo was a bear with wings?? ... [quote="nin"Feb 9, 2013, 03:57] I'm not sure if you're being serious or sarcastic, but like Lith said, at least they got 3 months. In the past, we've heard stories of management locking the doors while the employees were out at lunch... It sucks, no doubt. But they got a better deal than some folks. Hopefully they'll get something else lined up soon. Good luck to them. [/quote] "... heard stories of management locking the doors while the employees were out at lunch..." Oh wow.. please tell me who did that, I'd really like to know. Why would they even do that? [/quote] I remember hearing about it a number of years ago (I thought here, but I'm still searching). I did find [url=http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&boardid=1&threadid=94212]this[/url] but I'm not sure if it's the one I was thinking of... [/quote]

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