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RIP Ion Storm

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  • 11-02-2005 6:55pm
    #1
    Maximilian
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 5,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Had been on the cards for a while but its official now:

    full story
    ION STORM SHUT DOWN

    Eidos confirms closure of development studio behind Deus Ex and Thief: Deadly Shadows

    10:51 Respected development studio Ion Storm, based in Austin, Texas, has been closed by parent company Eidos.
    In an official statement confirming the closure, Eidos' explains that the studio has been shut down in a move to "consolidate down its North American internal development capabilities from two studios to one."

    "This is part of [Eidos'] move," the statement continues, "to consolidate and strengthen its technical and management capabilities into a smaller number of studios which are capable of scaling up in order to meet the competitive challenges that lie ahead, particularly in anticipation of next-generation technologies and platforms."

    What now for the Deus Ex series and more importantly, the Thief series? Didn't Eidos kill Look Glass Studios too?


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    #2
    mayordenis
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 9,634 Mod ✭✭✭✭mayordenis


    yeah get used to it now especially with the likes of EA starting to monopolise problem is there was an exellent team at ion storm and eidos are gonna lose out.


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    ykt0di9url7bc3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭ykt0di9url7bc3


    shame...


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