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Multiple reports suggests the development group formerly known as Team Bondi has been let go after the LA Noire studio was unable to find a publisher for new project Whore of the Orient.

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Team Bondi founder Brendan McNamara said L.A. Noire’s ambitious scale and proprietary tech blew development out to seven years.

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“It was a long, painful process, but making games is like making films in that it’s a marathon, not a sprint – and some people come into the process not knowing that – I’d love to spend more time at home with my family and kids. We run things differently now – we have flexi-hours, for example. But everybody has their view on who’s the worst boss in the world, and maybe that’s me. I’ve read some amazing things about Steve Jobs in his biography, and I’ve never seen him get as vilified any way as much as I have. Sam Peckinpah [’70s film director] fired [plenty of] people off one movie, and nobody said a thing. Werner Herzog pulled a gun on Klaus Kinski to get him to finish a movie! Obviously I don’t compare myself to any of those people…” – Team Bondi boss Brendan McNamara to OPM.

Kennedy Miller Mitchell Interactive will develop Brendan McNamara’s next game, Whore of the Orient.

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Former Team Bondi boss Brendan McNamara has defending the studio’s crunch time during L.A. Noire’s development, and believes if there was a “smarter way of doing it” all developers should “do it a smarter way.”

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Former Team Bondi boss and founder Brendan McNamara has a new project in the works.

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Kotaku is citing sources inside Sydney film studios suggesting a possible acquisition of LA Noire developer Team Bondi.

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Team Bondi head Brendan McNamara has said that when it came to publishing L.A. Noire, no other studio was willing to take a risk on the game other than Take Two’s Rockstar.

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Team Bondi boss Brendan McNamara has said that cut content from LA Noire wouldn’t have been able to fit on a single Blu-ray.

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Boom. Team Bondi boss Brendan McNamara has claimed that Rockstar is currently looking at LA Noire’s famous facial technology MotionScan for its future batch of titles, including Grand Theft Auto V.

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Everyone’s talking about Team Bondi, but is the Sydney studio just one of a growing number of developers bedevilled by harsh working conditions?

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“Disdain” for LA Noire developer Team Bondi on the game’s development from publisher Rockstar means it won’t publish the Sydney studio’s next game, a wide-ranging expose on GI.biz is reporting.

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IGN has an excellent feature posted on the trials and tribulations Team Bondi went through to get L.A Noire out the door, and it also brings more to light regarding the reported issues surrounding the departure of frustrated staff.

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Team Bondi head Brendan McNamara has said that development on future studio projects won’t take as long as it did with LA Noire.

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“We think [L.A. Noire] appeals to a really broad church, and one of the phenomenons we’ve seen a lot when we watch people play the game is that they’ll play it, or their wife or their girlfriend will play it, and two or three people will play it together like they’re watching TV. Three people can be entertained playing the same game and that’s a bit of a phenomenon. So far it’s been very appealing to women too, which is great. I think women are pretty good at reading whether people are lying or not.” – Team Bondi’s Brendan McNamara. (via Gamespot, Gamerzines.)

Team Bondi boss Brendan McNamara has said that LA Noire was originally going to feature more than three discs on Xbox 360.

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L.A. Noire director and Team Bondi founder Brendan McNamara and Rockstar VP of development Jeronimo Barrera have stated in an interview that the L.A. Noire is a step towards creating a games which revolve around human drama, which may eventually pave the way for the developer to create a weapon-free game in the future.

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Team Bondi boss Brendan McNamara has said that anticipated detective blockbuster LA Noire will bring in “all types of players,” regardless of gaming experience.

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This had better be good.

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Rockstar’s told Edge that it’s going for a “different approach” with LA Noire when it releases later this year.

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