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Tough Times for Lionhead Studios

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stiff-upper-lip-kitty dept.

Alice, over at the Wonderland blog, discusses Lionhead's decision to reduce the size of the company. The maker of The Movies and Black and White 2 has apparently not been doing so well financially this year. From the article: "Over the last few months Lionhead has been working on plans for a new AAA world class game. As work on a number of its titles draws to a close, a pool of 100 super talented developers at Lionhead are available to create a new super team at Lionhead. This will be in addition to an existing team which is working on an amazing next generation title. This strategy was presented to Lionhead this morning in a company meeting but sadly it will mean some redundancies."

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  1. Oh Peter by Osmosis_Garett · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How you've fallen from grace! Black and White 2 was nothing more than a slick RTS with terrible multiplayer gaming, Fable was a pretty rail adventure, and the Movies is an elegant slice of what might have been a good game if not for the overwhelming micromanagement. I dont want to even mention Black and White and how you released a game that could not be finished because of the poor debugging.

    Its no wonder that Lionhead has to downsize; they're not trying to make 'popular' or 'successful' games... they're still trying to make 'innovative, groundbreaking games' and failing. Mabye they should take a que from Will Wright with his new SPORE, which is the sort of thing that I used to expect out of Lionhead or Peter Molyneux.

  2. Re:Lionhead is not so good at creating monster hit by Forbman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Black and White was a fine game, but how do you sell someone on the notion of spending hours training a giant cow?

    I don't know. Nintendo has done a good job sucking people into NintenDogs...