A story on Shacknews offers more on the questions raised on that site a while back about the future of ION Storm Dallas (story) that has included speculation that if the Dallas office were to close, it would entail a split from the portion of ION Storm working out of Austin, TX. According to the story, the August issue of PC Gamer includes news that ION Storm Austin is indeed splitting from ION Storm Dallas, and will possibly be changing their name to Manifesto (a theory supported by the Shack's Network Solutions search that reveals the domain manifestogames.com is owned by ION). The story also provides a quote from ION Austin's Warren Spector about the plan:

"It became apparent that it was time to move on" "We had a way of thinking, and we had a type of game we wanted. The Ion Storm-Dallas office was pretty heavily focused on that 'Dallas shooter community.' It just started feeling not like a family".