Fri, Oct 29, 2010 | 21:49 BST
Rumor: 35 people laid-off at IO Interactive
3D Realms bossman George Broussard has tweeted that 35 employees of Kane & Lynch devs IO Interactive have been laid-off.
According to his tweet, not only were some redundancies made at the studio, but a project has been canceled as well.
Hopefully, the canceled project isn’t the much rumored and highly-anticipated Hitman 5, which is supposedly hitting next Christmas “at the earliest” – despite zero confirmation from Square Enix.
We’ll send a mail, but know that Broussard has been right about lay-offs at studios before.
Thanks, Eurogamer.
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Posted in: Eidos, Jobs, Rumour, Square Enix
Tags: io interactive, lay-offs
10 comments
#1
JimFear666
29/10/10, 10:20 pm
i hope the canceled project was kane and lynch 3
#2
BULArmy
29/10/10, 11:00 pm
For me PERSONALLY! IO have done only one excelent game and that is Hitman 2:Silent Assasin. Blood Money is also good but in my eyes №2 is what is now AAA game. Every other game they produce is from mediocre to shit.
#3
YoungZer0
29/10/10, 11:44 pm
It’s always sad to hear something like this. I wish them the best, if this is true.
#4
FadeLive
30/10/10, 1:01 am
@2
Add Freedom Fighters to that list and I agree.
I really hope they bury Kane & Lynch forever though, f that franchise. I want a new Hitman game or Freedom Fighters game which either hopefully will end up better than K&L2.
#5
Moonwalker1982
30/10/10, 2:14 am
Silent Assassin IMO was one of the lesser Hitman games, just like Contracts. Codename 47 was awesome and Blood Money was right up there
#6
LordCancer
30/10/10, 2:18 am
@2 I loved the kitchen knife.
#7
Dralen
30/10/10, 3:55 am
@4 OMG! I wish they would make a Freedom Fighters sequel, that game was phenomenal.
#8
Kasper F. Nielsen
30/10/10, 5:47 am
Not a rumor, confirmed by danish source in contact with IO directly: http://www.computerworld.dk/art/111878?a=rss&i=0
The canceled project is something unannounced that IO had brewing with Microsoft, but which Microsoft backed out of.
#9
back_up
30/10/10, 7:25 am
Awesome news.
Now stop Kane & Lynch shit and start developing new hitman and freedom fighter
#10
AHA-Lambda
30/10/10, 3:18 pm
sad to hear i respect IO immensely cos of the hitman games after all =(
good luck to those affected