Krome Studios lays off 'undisclosed number' of staff

by David Hinkle { Nov 18th 2009 at 11:15AM }

It's always sad when our layoffs tag claims another victim and, today, Australia-based Krome Studios is the latest. The developer responsible for the PS2, PSP, Wii and DS ports of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and who recently wrapped up development on Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Republic Heroes, has been forced to release an "undisclosed number" of its staff, Industry Gamers reports.

Krome CEO Robert Walsh attributes the action to declining game sales industry-wide and says the company has "worked really hard to minimize the impact" on its staff. Walsh does give some of these ex-employees hope, stating that he's currently "pursuing several business opportunities which, if secured, will enable Krome to reemploy some of the staff given notice."

Tags: krome-studios, layoffs, star-wars, star-wars-the-clone-wars-republic-heroes, star-wars-the-force-unleashed

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

[Tre is spelled with no Y] [blogs at trespeak.tumblr.com] @ Nov 18th 2009 11:21AM

So I guess that any chances of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 4 being made might not exactly be high.

My brother is going to freak when I tell him this.

Daniel @ Nov 18th 2009 11:34AM

I downloaded the demo of Clone Wars: Republic heroes a few weeks ago. After playing it for a grand total of two minutes, I immediately deleted it from my hard drive. Love the TV show, but that game was absolute crap.

Orion @ Nov 18th 2009 12:37PM

Thank you for saying this. My friends seem to think the game is the second coming and I can't understand why. The game play was horrid and the voice acting was even worse. I mean, why would the have replacement actors for people who act as replacement actors of the original actors.

Case in point: Yoda sounded horrible.

Andrew @ Nov 18th 2009 12:07PM

Perhaps if they had produced a better Hellboy game...

Orion @ Nov 18th 2009 12:38PM

Funny note. That's the 3rd studio that's produced Star Wars games that's either shut it's doors or had a massive layoff.

Dreaded Fear @ Nov 18th 2009 1:05PM

The Star Wars curse.

Shiaoran @ Nov 18th 2009 1:42PM

Or maybe it's the bad games curse :P

Jonah @ Nov 18th 2009 12:40PM

"The stimulus is working."

NekoDaimyo @ Nov 18th 2009 4:33PM

Th- They're an Australian company. I don't exactly keep up on international economic news (so I don't know if Australia's got their own economic stimulus thing going), but I'm pretty sure that, say, an USA stimulus effort wouldn't really affect a relatively small Australian dev house.

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