Midway's UK studio reveals new IP, could be RIP by July

It's sad to see people go under sense they have been around for a while, the job loss......!

In Max Payne the only choices you made were how to shoot people in a more spectacular way. It seems to me they're trying to make a game where you actually do stuff other than shooting so it's not really the same thing.

"The idea of a detective who sets his own rules is the sort of story that's been around in movies for a while, but we don't think anyone's managed to capture the essence of those choices and consequences in games" uhhhhh 5 words..... Max Payne - Max Payne 2

i hope they gonna come back strong because, well they really need it

Midway is doing whatever it can to save it's A**........ I hope someone buys all of the Midway studios............

After all the years of sub-par games can anyone get honestlly say they can buy a game or get excited about a game that is in anyway associated with this company? Hands washed. I'm a Newcastle lad & would be a shame to see my brothers out of work but Midway is a relic of the 90's let it RIP.

I must say I love this idea, being a Detective in a Noir story setting. I'll hope this'll be made and that it'll turn out great.

It will take Necessary Force to interest me further in this generic idea for a game.

Absolutely, Trooper. Psi-Ops was miles ahead of its time.

God damn it Midway just make a sequel to psi-ops that was the best game you guys made in 10 years

Its almost impossible to churn out a a completely new IP everything has been done. So find something you liked and a great one of that.

De Ja Vu? Hahaha. That was a great game but they make this one sound promising

Ugh, just about the most generic idea this side of a humans vs. aliens space war. It seems like every developer of ill refute hopes churning out a sub-par, uninteresting open world crime drama will help keep them afloat.

Midway as a publisher has always released mediocre titles. I'm surprised at how long the company has stayed afloat.

Suffering 3 FTW, not some black orchid wannabe

The Necessary Force video looks really good, for what it is, so I hope these guys can get someone to pick up their studio. Maybe under a company other than Midway this studio can produce a great game.

Heavy Rain will be better

Re-make the Suffering and put rampage on XBLA if you want to save midway.

Hope everything goes good there and wel see what the new games are.

"That unprecedented level of open-world influence and troubled morality is something we're really keen to explore." Yeah, they have that already. It's called Grand Theft Auto, or one of the 100 or so clones. Then again, since this is better than the threat of another TNA game, go for it.

"but we don't think anyone's managed to capture the essence of those choices and consequences in games" Eh? What about NES Deja-Vu? That masterpiece have everything... choices and consequences all over the place. Great game by the way.

the last game i bought from midway was Stranglehold. i really loved that game. i bought Strangle hold over Bio Shock. but anyway aside from Stranglehold as far as im concerened Midway has not released a good game since the 90's such as MK 1-UMK3, NFL BLITZ, and the classic NBA JAM. pretty much anything they have done since for the most part has stunk. and dont get me started on that horrible mess called Wheelman.

I think that's good they saved them

Necessary Force > Max Payne 3

I wish they would make a 3rd Suffering.

Why don`t you just die

I hope someone good gets the rights to Mortal Kombat... Midway was fantastic in the 90's, sad to see them in such trouble :(

Now that I'm done with screwing around I gotta say what's on my mind. As far as I'm concerned, Midway can shut down forever. The only thing I'm going to credit them for is staying open for this long and for being a great contributor to the development of video games in the early years. I think Midway has earned it's infamy and spot in history, but if they can't develop games that bring in top dollar then they don't deserve to remain open. They just need to face the fact that they can't get the job done so its time to move on and let a developer take over who can do just that.

I gotta agree with "ALLoY1717" & "ImaginaryFriend" that puppies are indeed cute. However I would also like to add that they are incredibly adorable as well.

@Alloy1717 : I like puppies!

I'm gonna miss the MK series.

Puppies are cute.

Midway, just give up and die already.

I am happy to see midway getting a kick in the rear side....arrogance and no games for PC will take you down the drain.

ok all ex-midway employees... OFF TO BLIZZARD TO COMPLETE DIABLO 3!!!! (just do a good job, and do WHATEVER they ask!)

Midway sucks

Die midway, die.

Well I hope things turn out well for midway

@ropumar "Newcastle today announced Necessary Force, an original intellectual property that tells a noir-style crime drama built on the backbone of Newcastle's Wheelman engine, which is based on Epic Games' Unreal Engine III technology." See? I know that the Unreal Engine 3 tech is superb, but they're not using U3, they've got the Wheelman edition of it; which as I said before, sucked. You're blatant accusations are further proof that people have given up on intelligence.

@azureblade89 It just saying the game will be developed in a in-house tweaked Unreal Engine 3 tech, which was the same used in the wheelman. Engine has nothing to do with gameplay. The unreal engine 3 was used in bioshock, gears of wars and even some SE rpgs and is the most used engine when making next-gen games. You better not give up on intelligence, because you sure need it if you don't understand what engine means.

the idea they have for a game sounds very similar to L.A. Noire....

I hope Midway can finally get it together. The last 2 games I bought that was published by them was Mortal Kombat and Stranglehold. Both of those titles were pretty good, but the rest of their releases I skipped on simply because of their poor reviews on multiple game sites.

But wheel man sucked. Why would you base anything on that? meh; i give up on intelligence these days.

Hope someone buys them up thing is there aint as much money to go around with people being laid off people need to be allowed to keep their jobs

I wonder what the deal is with that wb taking over midway?

Sounds interesting. There seem to be several detective games coming out in the future, and that's fine by me.