The developer behind Singularity, Wolfenstein and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance was hit with layoffs today, according to sources familiar with the Raven Software.
About forty people were let go today, according to some of the folks directly effects by the layoffs. Reached for comment this morning, Activision had this to say:
"With the recent completion of Singularity, Raven Software is realigning its workforce to better reflect the studio's upcoming slate."
A former Raven Software developer has outed the studio was once working on a standalone live service Call of Duty Zombies game.
It obviously would have been Heretic/Hexen. With the resurgence of DOOM, Wolfenstein, and "Boomer Shooters" in general, it's a good time to bring back these older franchises. Same with Quake and Unreal.
Oh my goodness I would love a new Hexxen ,Heretic single player game !. Also I would absolutely love to play a new SINGLARITY game which was one of my favorite video games from the PS3 ,Xbox 360 generation.
We need a sequel to singularity. It was really a fun inventive game. Hopefully Raven doesn’t continue to get stuck with Call of Duty anymore.
Raven is a great studio. Hopefully now, they can move onto something different. A studio that was getting stuck with ten years of Call of Duty stuff, must of sucked.
Heretic is the number one game I'd love a reboot of, less Hexen more Hereitc though, more fast pace with lots of weapons. Love a reboot/remaster of Heretic 2, thats a game you cant find these days in a store
Phil Spencer says that Microsoft will recognize the first AAA video game union once the acquisition is complete.
Still disappointed they sold the Soldier of Fortune series to Cauldron.. Why Raven why?
I mean, its a good show of faith by the corpo giant, but they have to legally recognize them regardless.
not sure why anyone would give you a disagree. It's the truth, they have to honor it no matter what PR message is said.
@KillBill
If you read that fully, you'd realize that unless they negotiated with the employees otherwise, they would still have to honor it because the union was created before the Activision purchase was closed
I doesn't matter. Raven's Union will have zero power when it counts. Everyone knows this.
The vote is the culmination of efforts to unionize that began in December after 12 quality assurance testers were let go before the holidays.
Oh man. I wonder how Microsoft feels about this? Outwardly every business has to give the appearance of supporting freedom of choice. Internally though I promise they are furiously working to make sure the major vote goes their way. This vote simply unlocked the door for the union. The next one decides if they walk in and start repainting walls or if the door gets slammed in their face and relocked.
Once it’s in the chances of it spreading to other parts of the business are high. Microsoft has got to be thinking of the potential damage this can cause.
