{"id":14096,"date":"2011-09-16T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rumour-visceral-studios-melbourne-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14096-rumour-visceral-studios-melbourne-shutting-down","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Visceral Studios Melbourne shutting down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kotaku.com.au\/2011\/09\/eas-visceral-studios-in-melbourne-rumoured-to-close-on-monday\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Kotaku Australia source\">Kotaku Australia&#8217;s<\/a> industry moles, Visceral Studios&#8217; Melbourne office will be shutting its doors on Monday. The anonymous source revealed that management has informed its employees.<\/p>\n<p>Visceral Games Melbourne is known for its work on Dead Space, Dante&rsquo;s Inferno, and The Godfather II.<\/p>\n<p>Visceral Games Melbourne was apparently working on a AAA title for consoles for three years. A management change at parent company EA meant the plug was pulled. Patrick Soderland, formerly of DICE and now EA Games Label vice president, was supposedly behind the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The anonymous source claims that Soderland didn&rsquo;t feel the game would be profitable, and decided to close the studio and bin the project.<\/p>\n<p>If true, this leaves two branches of Visceral games in operation &ndash; the head studio in Redwood Shores, California, where EA&#8217;s corporate HQ resides, and one in Montreal Canada.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17800-Visceral-Studios-Melbourne-may-be-shutting-down\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Rumour: Visceral Studios Melbourne shutting down\"><strong>Rumour: Visceral Studios Melbourne shutting down<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come Monday, part of the Dead Space team may be no more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}