Ready at Dawn Studios Joins the Layoff Parade
Today is not a particularly good day to be a game developer. Following shortly after the surprising news that Rockstar San Diego laid off 40 employees despite the success of Red Dead Redemption, Ready at Dawn Studios announced that they had to release 13 of their own.
From Ready at Dawn’s website;
We’ve spent the majority of our time at RAD hiring the best and most talented people to join our team. Today, we had to let go of 13 of these people because we simply couldn’t keep them on board while one project finishes and another ramps up. Unfortunately, these are the woes of being independent… It sucks. There are no other words for it.
The studio, best known for the PSP’s God of War: Chains of Olympus, are currently working on Ghost of Sparta- another game in the ever popular God of War mythos. It’s a shame when things like this happen, especially to successful independent developers, but it is sadly common place since we live in a world that is being choked of any joy or value by the never yielding hand of corruption and oppression masquerading under the name of capitalism until we’re all blue faced and gasping for air, begging our wealthy overlords for mercy. Wait, what was I talking about again? I’m not posting on Raisethefist right now? Whoops.
[Source: Ready at Dawn]
