Is Zipper Interactive about to get… zipped shut*?
According to Kotaku’s anonymous but presumably credible “sources”, the MAG dev is laying off loads of staff and has already cancelled a project, suggesting the studio is about to close.
Back in May last year, the studio dumped 33 staffers, citing a cut back “on production resources after the launch of two major franchises”, which would have been MAG and SOCOM 4.
Zipper Interactive has been a Sony first-party developer since January 2006, with major exclusives including the SOCOM series, as well as MAG and most recently, the third-person shooter Unit 13 for the PS Vita which released earlier this month to a somewhat tepid critical reception.
For the moment, both Sony and Zipper are declining comment on what is or isn’t going on over there. That’s probably not a good thing, although it’s possibly just another one of those “production resource” cut backs, or whatever else mega-corporations prefer to call making people unemployed.
*Sorry.
Source: Kotaku
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