{"id":38002,"date":"2012-05-18T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T14:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=38002"},"modified":"2012-05-18T16:21:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T14:21:19","slug":"kingdoms-of-amalur-reckoning-dev-in-big-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/38002-kingdoms-of-amalur-reckoning-dev-in-big-trouble","title":{"rendered":"Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning dev in big trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In news from the real world, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developer, 38 Studios, is reportedly teeter-tottering on the brink of disaster, with the company failing to pay staff this week and defaulting on payment of a huge loan to the state of Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t buy that game, this is <em>your fault<\/em>. That includes me, but I don&#8217;t like fantasy RPGs anyway, so I get a free pass.<\/p>\n<p>According to Joystiq, the company sent a cheque for an overdue $1.125 million payment on a $75 million loan to the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (RIEDC), but it was later returned because there wasn&#8217;t enough cash to actually back it up. RIEDC head, Keith Stokes, the man who approved the loan in the first place, has reportedly resigned.<\/p>\n<p>All 38 Studios temp workers and contractors were also apparently handed pink slips of doom.<\/p>\n<p>For both of you holding out on a Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning II, I&#8217;d suggest finding some other reason to live.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2012\/05\/17\/38-studios-doesnt-make-payroll\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joystiq<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Kingdoms-of-Amalur-Reckoning-screenshot-25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-32683\" title=\"Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning screenshot 25\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Kingdoms-of-Amalur-Reckoning-screenshot-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Kingdoms-of-Amalur-Reckoning-screenshot-25.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Kingdoms-of-Amalur-Reckoning-screenshot-25-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Kingdoms-of-Amalur-Reckoning-screenshot-25-250x148.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running into loads of financial problems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":32686,"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":[2042,31,2161],"class_list":["post-38002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-38-studios","tag-active","tag-kindoms-of-amalur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38002","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38019,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38002\/revisions\/38019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}