After several months of ongoing drama, it looks like LA Noire dev Team Bondi has finally gone bust.
According to a report over on Develop, that company has sold its assets and intellectual property to Sydney-based production studio, Kennedy Miller Mitchell, and told staffers to move over to KMM or lose their jobs.
The article also cites rumours that Team Bondi has “gone bankrupt”, and that boss Brendan McNamara is now joining KMM too, although there’s no official confirmation on either of those as yet.
Shortly after LA Noire’s launch in May, allegations from former employees about the studio’s alleged “hostile and brutal” working conditions turned up in an IGN expose, prompting a lot of he-said, she-said controversy and an investigation by International Game Developers Association.
What’s next for Team Bondi remains unclear for the moment, although with Rockstar owning the LA Noire IP, it’s unlikely to be any more of that. A PC version of the game is currently in development over at the Rockstar Leeds studio.
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