Posts Tagged ‘radical entertainment’
Prototype is Dated
Activision today sent out word that Radical Entertainment’s open-world action game Prototype will be shipped to European stores on June 5 and North American stores on June 9.
The game has players donning the role of Alex Mercer, a shape-shifter who goes on a rampage to find out what happened to him. Also, New York is attacked by a virus that created horrible, disgusting mutants.
It is being developed for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. This comes from the same studio as Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, which was pretty awesome, to say the least.
Radical, High Moon Get Staff Cut Courtesy of Activision Blizzard
August doesn’t seem like a good month for those in the industry, as, following Midway and NCSoft, Activison Blizzard today announced that it has let go of nearly 100 Radical Entertainment employees, 60 High Moon Studios staffers; the company has also killed off at least two games in development.
The Radical layoffs was confirmed by the studio after word appeared via The Vancouver Sun. The studio is responsible for Prototype, the upcoming open-world action game. High Moon departures was first noted by Gamasutra; the studio recently released Bourne Conspiracy.
“Activision Blizzard is committed to making the best games possible and has elected at this time to reduce the number of titles that Radical is developing from four games to two,” commented Radical human resources VP Leah Rubin. “Therefore, we will be proportionately reducing the size of our studio.”
Radical is also currently working on Crash Banditcoot: Mind Over Mutant; this and the abovementioned games weren’t cancelled. It is being speculated that one of the studio’s cancelled games may have been a sequel to Scarface.