{"id":14124,"date":"2011-09-19T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-04-30T13:04:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T11:04:56","slug":"ea-shuts-visceral-games-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14124-ea-shuts-visceral-games-australia","title":{"rendered":"EA shuts Visceral Games Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following <a title=\"rumours over the weekend\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/14096-Rumour-Visceral-Studios-Melbourne-shutting-down.html\" target=\"_self\">rumours over the weekend<\/a>, the International Game Developers Association has confirmed that EA has closed up its Visceral Studios Melbourne office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Confirmation of EA closing Visceral has been received \ud83d\ude41 our best wishes to the 21 devs now out of a job #EAVisceral,&#8221; said an IGDA post on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The studio had previously worked on Dante\u2019s Inferno, Godfather 2, and Dead Space, and for the last three years, was reportedly also working on a console title \u2013 which may or may not have been the Jack the Ripper game, announced back in 2009 before vanishing into a development black hole &#8211; which has now been binned alongside the employees\u2019 contracts.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s got to suck a bit.<\/p>\n<p>At least the Dead Space franchise is still on the go over at Visceral\u2019s Redwood Shores and Montreal divisions.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a pretty rough year in giant spider country, with Sydney-based L.A. Noire dev Team Bondi going out of business back in August 2011. Maybe they can all hang out over a shrimp barby.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a title=\"EA shuts Visceral Games Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17846-EA-has-shut-down-Visceral-Games-Australia\" target=\"_self\"><strong>EA shuts Visceral Games Australia<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official<\/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-14124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124","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=14124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}