More Midway departures including Chicago studio head

10 Comments by Christopher Grant Aug 6th 2008 1:29PM
Filed under: Business

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.

Tags: BreakingNews, Midway, Midway-Chicago, Mike-Bilder, Mona-Hamilton, Reilly-Brennan

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iFester: Aug 6th 2008; 1:40PM

I wonder if InfoGrames has financial room to save two companies...

Sean Hoyt: Aug 6th 2008; 1:49PM

I'm guessing some of them went to Robomodo. They seem to be hiring up all the Chicago dev refugees.

Kizzle: Aug 6th 2008; 1:52PM

I still love you Midway.

Duke: Aug 6th 2008; 1:56PM

Only thing we can know for sure is he won't be going to EA Chicago.

Dale: Aug 6th 2008; 1:57PM

This after last year's closure of EA Chicago... poor Chicago, this city needs a financially stable dev.

akin: Aug 6th 2008; 5:36PM

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.

drew: Aug 6th 2008; 6:50PM

guaranteed they went to robomoto, big things are happening there...

monkey65: Aug 6th 2008; 8:35PM

I really hope this isn't going to get any worse. It's a horrible position to be in.

dvnt: Aug 7th 2008; 10:42AM

@Drew
Nope, good guess though.

Ben B: Aug 8th 2008; 7:07PM

If only Midway still made good games...

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