Slant Six Games initiates temporary layoffs to trim operating costs, hopes to rehire all affected developers.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City and Galactic Reign developer Slant Six Games has initiated a round of temporary layoffs, the company has confirmed to GamesIndustry International. The studio hopes to rehire all affected staffers once new projects or funding has been secured
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I know, why do they keep letting slant6 ruin popular franchises. To be fair, the socoms for psp were pretty good but their console games have been awful.
its like they want the vita to fail with all of these terrible devs....
then they're the ones complaining as to why people are not buying the games....
Out of all the developers that have went down over the years...how the hell is Slant Six still around
It probably would have been overshadowed by Killzone Mercenary if it were to launch this year.
Siliconera: "The rumors are true, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City developer Slant Six was working on a Star Wars game back in 2010. Lucasarts hired Slant Six to make Star Wars Battlefront Online for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360."
Haha, I was just going to say the same thing
I'd rather have no Battlefront sequel then a crappy one by the worse developer out there
Besides it's not really Battlefront 3 is it
Battlefront's good name went untarnished. That is a win.
Now if we could just keep the Banjo Kazooie, Crash, and Spyro IPs away from their perspective owners....
Slant Six must have a checklist of popular game franchises that they're out to ruin....
Socom............Check!
Resident Evil....Check!
Star Wars........
The concept art showed Jedi in the game. I really wish these developers would stop focusing on Jedi. Battlefront isn't supposed to be about Jedi it's supposed to be about the soldiers and their battles.
Also Socom Confrontation wasn't a terrible terrible game. Once they patched it it became a fun game. But before that it was bug ridden.
Well Jedi can be in the game. As long as balance exists. Not godlike superheros, but soldiers that are not immune to death. They should be able to die.
This works out very well in one Jedi Knight Jedi Academy mod with Jedi being balanced out to same level as soldiers. Personally I believe its gone a bit to far in the latest builds, but that's just me.
Check out Moviebattles 2 mod for JKA on Youtube or something like that. I actually get the feeling to play as another class other than Jedi in this mod without instant death fears.
Jedi in SWBF2 were awesome. So were regular soldier battles. Don't see whats wrong with having both
It's funny, I literally have SWBF1 in my PS2 running right now. I just got done serving the empire on Rhen Var: Citadel... The map were sweet on SWBF1, still pretty good on 2... They still need to make SWBF3 please.
If I remember correctly I seen video of gameplay on Endor maybe 1 1/2 yrs. ago, I think it was Pandemic's near completed version? (might've been slant six's but that don't seem right, oh well) It looked sweet, you could hop in a X-wing & shoot some Tie Fighters down then dock up in space!!! Looks aren't everything so maybe it didn't make for a focused game. You're right also Slant-six has mucked up quite a few good franchises LoL...
GS:A representative for Vancouver-based Slant Six told GameSpot today that more than a quarter of the studio's 96 employees were given the option of taking a severance package or accepting a temporary layoff while the studio looks to take on additional projects.
Not Slant Six!!!!!!1 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-
pfft.
It's sad when these things happen, but Raccoon City was a pile of crap. And I mean in every facet of the game, from the gameplay, animation, to the story, to the sound, etc. None of these guys are getting away with blaming that terrible game on another team member. So these guys are not gonna have an easy time finding work if their potential new employers play RE: ORC. They should leave that out of the resume.
I don't like when studios lay off their developers, and I feel bad for these people who are now out of a job. But at the same time, Slant Six is fucking horrible. They butchered Socom and they butchered Resident Evil. They have zero talent, so I'm really not surprised to see this.
Slant Six is just a terrible studio that produces nothing but worthless garbage
I agree that they did a number on Socom but not as bad as Zipper Interactive. Zipper turned S4 into an abomination. XP, Snap to Cover, Small maps etc.