Massive Skate team lay offs: 200 employees lose their jobs
- January 22, 2009 15:07 PM PST
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The team behind Skate faces huge layoffs the day before Skate 2 hits store shelves.
A majority of the staff making up Canadian video game development studio EA Black Box, creators of the Electronic Arts' skateboarding series, Skate, Skate 2, and Skate It, has been laid off.
Gamasutra reports that almost two-thirds of EA Black Box, which has also worked on NBA STREET Homecourt and most of the games in the Need for Speed series (everything from Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 to Need for Speed Undercover) has lost their jobs, the total number of employees let go being upwards of 200 people.
This news comes the day before Skate 2's release which hits store shelves tomorrow. You can already read GamePro's review of Skate 2, where it was awarded 4 out of 5 stars.
Read the full story on the Skate team layoffs on Gamasutra here.
CLICK HERE for more screens of Skate 2!
Some sad news. The Skate series breathed new life into the stale skateboarding genre of video games that has been dominated (only by default) by a bazillion Tony Hawk games.
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- Jan 22 2009 at 03:07:03:PM PST
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Let's hope this doesn't mean that Black Box will be shut down altogether. I love the Skate and NFS series.
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Gen_RAAM Jan 22 2009 at 04:29:04:PM PST
Its all Obamas fault...i thought he was supposed to heal the seas and cure cancer and.... never mind... he sucks
funniess thing i heard in a while.. heal the seas and cure cancer..lmao.. but best wishes to black box
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Hard Times has hit alot of people in every industry. Microsoft laying off 20,000 people and other companies doing the same. Hell, I just got the warning of possible layoff myself and I'm the only employee! Lets hope the economy gets better this year.
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Gen_RAAM wrote:
Its all Obamas fault...i thought he was supposed to heal the seas and cure cancer and.... never mind... he sucks
Yea, because he can do that 2 days into office. STFU you idiot republican...he's already done more than bush has in 8 years.
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Hey goldberg_evan, not all of us moderates and/or liberals are fans of President Obama. I'm not a republican, but I sure didn't vote for the democratic candidate. The truth is, Obama hyped the populous up on glorified promises during his campaign. Now, he seems to be back-peddling on his word. Although this is not uncommon for any new president, Obama also did this. So, technically Gen_RAAM is right. In my opinion, you can either be ignorant and STFU, or start being more informed on current politics to make logical arguments.
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