Atari Shuts Down Legend Entertainment?

MachDelta writes "Yet another talented PC game studio has closed their doors today. Shacknews is reporting that Legend Entertainment, most commonly known for their work on Wheel of Time, Unreal 2, and Unreal 2: XMP, has been shut down by Atari. Though nothing official has been announced by either Legend or Atari, insider reports have confirmed that the sad news is indeed true. Losing Black Isle was hard enough, but now Legend? It raises the question: Who's next?" Update: 01/18 04:34 GMT by S : ShackNews has a messageboard post by Legend designer Glen Dahlgren seeming to confirm the closure.

Comments

Perhaps It Raises the Question?

[Anonymous Coward]

It begs the question: Who's next?

No, it really doesn't.

Re:Subtitles of the obvious..

[gdarklighter]

If you don't have good story-writers, it doesn't matter how much talent the rest of the team has.

Because I play Tetris for the story.

Don't automatically assume that any game without a decent story is going to be bad. Total Annihilation had a terrible story, yet many acknowledge it as one of the greatest RTS games ever. Good gameplay with poor plot sells much better than a brilliant story with horrid gameplay.

Not really that sad

[Dark Paladin]

To be honest, I never thought that Legend was really that great. "Wheel of Time" was interesting and good looking, but nothing to really go nuts about. "Unreal 2" was another - nice, but not supreme.

This sounds more like capitalistic market forces working than (in Interplay's case) Point Haired Bosses making silly decisions.

Who cares?

[gtshafted]

The studios are really about the people. Their names mean nothing without the very people that started them. In most cases when these studios are shut down, the personalities that were important in leading them already left. For example, how important is BullFrog when most of its key developers and founder leave to form another studio? What's Origin without Richard Garriot or Black Isle without Ferquant (or whatever his name was)? The bottomline is that's it's really mainly the people that matter. The studios / their names mainly just serve as a marketing vehicle. Unless these developers / designers die - great games will still come from them - just in the form of a different brand / studio.

Re:whos next?

[Drantin]

You've obviously never played any of Legends Entertainments older games that weren't mentioned in the summary... the Spellcasting games(101 201 301) Gateway 1,2 the list goes on...

Re:The bigger shame...

[obeythefist]

Fact of the matter is, nobody does Co-op anymore. What was the last big co-op game to be released? Raven Shield? That was months and months ago. Let alone there should be another game with the same scope and playability as Op Flashpoint or Ghost Recon.