Just a day after learning of another blood-red quarter at Midway, with $34.8m lost in its second quarter, Kotaku brings word of a trio of high-level departures from the beleaguered publisher including Mike Bilder, head of Midway's internal Chicago studio, currently tasked with bringing Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe and Blitz: The League II to market.
Also gone: Mona Hamilton, veep of marketing, and Reilly Brennan, director of media relations. Midway confirmed all three departures, and said that Bilder accepted a senior management position with another Chicagoland dev (any ideas, Joystiqland?). There are two additional rumored departures, but Midway's apparently not ready to talk about them yet. That's fine. For now we'll just add these three to the list we've already got going, right there next to these two guys and the company's CEO.
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Posted: Aug 6th 2008 1:49PM (Unverified) said
I'm guessing some of them went to Robomodo. They seem to be hiring up all the Chicago dev refugees.
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Posted: Aug 6th 2008 5:36PM (Unverified) said
Midway is probably screwing up Chicago's chances of becoming a development hub. Tho we do have flashpoint academy (tho it doesn't look too technical) and Wideload, Pop Cap Games, Day 1 Studios.
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Posted: Aug 6th 2008 6:50PM (Unverified) said
guaranteed they went to robomoto, big things are happening there...
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Posted: Aug 6th 2008 8:35PM (Unverified) said
I really hope this isn't going to get any worse. It's a horrible position to be in.
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