God of War PSP studio axes 13

yeah! another origins story. epic

Wow, now Obama is to blame for 13 layoffs at Ready at Dawn. Seriously? So looking forward to this title though. First one was done great and won't expect any less from this one.

this game is gonna be epic!!

"Great game you made guys!... now scram." Even w/ the economy as it is, that ain't nice to hear after some hard work

oh..yeah i wanna know what happened to him when he was child and how he made himself the immortal warrior and i wanna know everything about him,his my favourite warrior...i wait for it

Actually, mariokart64fan, FreeRadical is or maybe I should say, was, an England-based development studio. So, FreeRadical's closure has more to do with the many economic problems that England is going through right now than anything else...I wouldn't feel too bad for FreeRadical though because they were purchased by the Germany-based Crytek. Codemasters was also purchased by an Indian company of all things, must be impossible for an independent developer to survive in England on their own under the current economic conditions there...

Its good to know that even employees that develop good, successful games, aren't even immune to layoffs. Look at rockstar san diego.

you can blame obama , , for half of all this , especally freeradical , hopefully , psp gets this gow , if not that would be bad for fans ,

Hopefully GoW GoS won't be delayed because of this.

Its not cool when you lose your job. :(

The lay offs are too bad, but if the game gets great reviews (like we mostly assume it will) they wont be out of work for long. Cant wait to play this game!

dont feel bad for those 13 guys im sure they will get a job anywhere in the gaming industry. best of luck to them & the God Of War Franchise

That's a shame.

That's what happens when you're independent and there is no new project for you to take over. They can hire all those guys back once "Ready at Dawn" gets a new assignment. Most of these developers are aware of these things and plan way ahead in advance with their funds. I don't think they will be out of work for long.

Jeez more layoffs i feel so bad for them

@shani_boy101 The scar over his right eye is the one I believe he is talking about if we already know the story behind the scar across his stomach...

Ready at down are actually gods! Those 13 just decided to come down to the mortals.

it must suck to be one of those guys. and Thorsen, which scar are you talking about? The one in his torso is explained (or shown) in GoW 2.

im sure those 13 people got paid tons of money. and wont be hard for them to get another job.

That sucks for being independent. :(

ain't good

Sad news.

very sad to hear :( but still Ghost of Sparta will be awesome! Its in good hands people :P

That really sucks for the staff who were let go :(

damn man th ats not good

That really does suck :( I feel bad for those who lost their job.

Too bad Okami didn't sell on the Wii, its sad to see good companies go under.

Damn that sucks

This is sad to hear :( I hope the economy gets back up faster, and good luck to the RAD staff.

hope they get back in shape someday becoming one of the most succesful game developer studios with full staff but well u have my simpathies RAD to layoff people is to let go the water of everyday in amanner of saying :(

can't wait for this game :):):)

hmm.. where have i seen this before? http://kotaku.com/5587413/rumor-rockstar-lays-off-40-from-red-dead-redemption-team anyway, it's sad really..

Damn, that's cold. The game's not even finished and they got dumped. That's a fine how do ya do for your hard work.

US economy is still a bad game...

This game looks even better than COO. I hope the story is longer though... :P

Wow! then again it doesn't surprise me in this economy. you would think its over. i just hope the game isn't delayed!

It's crappy that game designers making quality games get cut while you have teams making garbage games that they know will do terrible from the start. Makes me sad that all the hard work just gets disregarded while people that make the most banal games out there continue to get paid. Though nothing against people working at those crappy companies doing it to have a job, I don't blame you, just industry sucks.

So they're the geniuses that used the IGN logo on their Okami cover! The money that they spent on that mistake could have easily paid for all 13 lay offs!

Tor neglected to mention that RAD developed Daxter, one of the first successful PSP Sony published exclussives, even before GoW ChoO, and Okami (port). GS also neglected to mention that RAD had a change of heart after the development of ChoO, when the game Director forecasted that was THE last PSP developed game due to Sony's lack of risk taking during the development of the game in order to create a more massive experience. Y'all may remember how short was the first PSP GoW game. Great news the PSP is getting this game this fall for the sake of entertainment. Hopefully this one will have a longer story mode. Finally... if the studio is already reducing size to finalize development, it may also signify the game is quite advanced and the publisher is only awaiting for the busy Fall/Xmas window of $$$.

You squeeze them for their worth, and then just throw them in the trash...

Very sad more layoffs :(

That's a shame.:(