Activision close Radical Entertainment

[Dark Drakan]

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Activision have issued a statement saying that Radical Entertainment will no longer be developing its own games and will instead have to reduce its staff count and assume a support role on other Activision projects. ​

Official Statement​

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Although we made a substantial investment in the Prototype IP, it did not find a broad commercial audience. Radical is a very talented team of developers, however, we have explored various options for the studio, including a potential sale of the business, and have made a difficult conclusion through the consultation process that the only remaining option is a significant reduction in staff. As such, some employees will remain working for Radical Entertainment supporting other existing Activision Publishing projects, but the studio will cease development of its own games going forward.​

 

[Chaos Raiden]

It is a sad thing to see a developer gets shut down, especially Radical Entertainment since I liked Prototype 2 a lot, despite it's minor issues.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Just means they now join the list of Activision whipping boys and cant develop their own titles anymore.