Take-Two Interactive is reportedly shutting down OlliOlli, Rollerdrome developer Roll7 and Kerbal House Program 2 developer Intercept Video games. This report comes from Bloomberg a month after Take-Two acquired Borderlands developer Gearbox Leisure for $460 million.
Take-Two engaged on severance for OlliOlli studio, will proceed to help Kerbal House Program 2
Bloomberg‘s Jason Schreier claims to have seen inner Take-Two paperwork detailing the closures. In accordance with him, Take-Two is engaged on severance packages for these presently employed by OlliOlli developer Roll7. The British studio was based 16 years in the past and most lately labored on Rollerdrome.
Bloomberg says the paperwork include comparable plans for Intercept Video games. Take-Two has understandably refused to disclose specifics, however has filed a Employee Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) discover mentioning a everlasting closure in Seattle — the place Intercept is predicated — affecting 70 workers.
Take-Two individually instructed Sport Developer that it’ll proceed to help Kerbal House Program 2.
“On April sixteenth, Take-Two introduced a value discount program to determine efficiencies throughout its enterprise and to reinforce the Firm’s margin profile, whereas nonetheless investing for development,” reads a press release Take-Two supplied to a number of shops. “As a part of these efforts, the Firm is rationalizing its pipeline and eliminating a number of initiatives in growth and streamlining its organizational construction, which is able to remove headcount and cut back future hiring wants.”
