Gazillion layoffs hit Romero's Slipgate Ironworks

by Kyle Horner Oct 18th 2009 at 12:00PM

Whatever Gazillion Entertainment's secret mastermind plot is, their next step has been to create an unfortunate situation for a suspected 50 now ex-employees at Slipgate Ironworks. The reasoning? According to Gazillion, "As part of our focus on reaching the widest possible audiences with breakthrough MMO entertainment, we decided to change the format of our project at Slipgate Ironworks to better achieve this aim," So, whatever unannounced MMO the team was working on is now canned, it would seem.

At least there's a silver lining, in some sense. Gazillion also stated, "-the other Slipgate staff are already in discussions around the many open positions across our slate of projects." You know what? We'd make another world conquering joke here, but that'd be too easy. Instead, we're just going to sit in our chair, pet our cat and sip this lovely whipped latte. Oh, whoops, guess we just can't help ourselves sometimes.

Seriously though, next year is going to be interesting, because the official statement alludes to something being released from the publisher next year. Unless they're just talking about Jumpgate Evolution -- at least, we hope that comes out by next year -- and then we're not really sure why they just didn't say as much.

Tags: gamasutra, gazillion, gazillion-entertainment, jge, john-romero, jumpgate-evolution, layoff, layoffs, netdevil, slipgate-ironworks

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

SgtBaker said on 12:55PM 10-18-2009

The kotaku article linked above said: "2010 will be an exciting year for Gazillion as we bring several groundbreaking MMOs to markets worldwide"

Apart from Jumpgate (which might, or might not be groundbreaking) - what else are these bozos doing?

I don't want to be overly negative, but all their quotes seem very pointy-haired and leave a pique after taste of massive fail.

Draco said on 1:40PM 10-18-2009

Just a brief comment...never trust Romero

Alz said on 7:45PM 10-18-2009

I wonder if their lay off e-mail went something like, "John Romero just made you his bitch... again."

Verit said on 12:54AM 10-21-2009

lol - Daikatana ;).

eddie said on 10:29PM 10-18-2009

Romero and Carmack... the Sid and Marty Krofft of gaming.

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