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Raven Layoffs

Layoffs have come down at Raven Software, the Activision-owned developer of Singularity and Wolfenstein, reports Kotaku, attributing the report to "sources familiar with the Raven Software." They say about 40 jobs were lost, and follow this up with a confirmation from Activision, who tell them "With the recent completion of Singularity, Raven Software is realigning its workforce to better reflect the studio's upcoming slate," though the publisher declined to say how many positions were cut. Kotaku reports their sources tell them the studio has been cut to a single development team to create downloadable content, saying they had two teams until now, down from three as recently as last year. Thanks joao.

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26. Re: Raven Layoffs Oct 11, 2010, 17:16 Beamer
 
We can say what we want, but Raven's heyday was console based. I'm pretty certain those X-Men Legends games sold through the roof and gave them a higher profile than they'd ever had.

I just found their games... kind of generic and dull. The X-Men games felt like empty button-mashing to me. Quake 4 was, to me, terrible.

Wait, I forgot they did Wolverine. Never played it, but people at my company ate it up. I just knew it was beautiful.


In all honesty, I'd say it was PC gaming that killed Raven. This is just a huge assumption, but they had carved out a nice, and seemingly profitable, niche as the guys that do high profile Marvel console games. Also as guys pretty damn good with UE3. I think those games were all more profitable than the id offshoots and Singularity, all of which were more PC focused.

Also weird that they lost the Marvel stuff to Sega, who has been getting slaughtered. While I found the X-Men games dull, they at least were playably dull. The Sega games are just out-and-out bad.
 
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