Report: EA closing Visceral Melbourne on Monday

Is Visceral Melbourne a different Visceral? or the same awesome ones who did the Dead Space franchise?

I would say you could call the closed down offices some "dead space", but this is too sad of a dillemma to lightly jest with. Hang in there, dev and dev families.

Whats with this news story hanging around Dead Space screenshots on websites? You boys tryin to drum up traffic ;)? Visceral Games made all the Dead Space games, and is working on the third one. They are located in California. You should really put a clarification in this news.

well that sucks hope the men and wemen working there find new jobs.

well I'm sorry to see another good studio fall. I wish the staff their the best of luck.

I sincerely hope that Visceral Melbourne is just a branch of Visceral.

Dead Space is probably my favorite game series of all time, I'd be sad to see it die.

Boys, gaming is starting to funnel down into mediocrity. Even though we currently live in one of those best times for video games (if not the best), there is definitely a trend starting here which I do not like, and that trend is to rip the guts out of any developer that can't push out a multi-million selling FPS ever year.

Pre-order incentives, passcodes, talented dev studios getting closed on a weekly basis... This just isn't good. Give it a few years, all you'll see is a bunch of COD clones and maybe an indie PC market. Kind of sad, really.

Oh well, at least I still have my Gamecube.

Screw you EA

I would like to see a sequel to Dante's Inferno.

If your name is in the credits of Dead Space you won't be out of work long.
Maybe they can help Capcom make RE6 better than RE5.

They should work for Activision they would treat them right! :)

You have to remember too that most of these "Visceral" studies were just renamed EA Studios branches and not part of the original team.

I think a lot of you people continue to forget that games is a business. If a game does not make a profit especially with piracy, used games, rentals, friend sharing etc than the success for a studio to continue to operate is nil.

I wish I could see how many of you rightious people do any of the above and how many actually purchase a game at full retail or even discounted (developers/pub still get paid).

And please do not give me that crap about innovation because even though I hear that line alot, the purchase decisions show that is not what gamers are looking for. Gamers want familiar gameplay with little tweets because anytime something is changed radically, you get a whole lot of whining.

Studios and publishers do not mind taking risk if the risk vs rewards were profitable but in today's market that is not the question. Yes indie games can go there but that's because the manpower is much less, but that also means the polish is as well.

Gamers what the polish of games like Killzone 3 or Uncharted with their highend graphics but those types of games cost a lot to make and have huge teams to produce. Even then, if you strip out the graphics, the gameplay of either game really do not separate them from the other games in their same genres.

Why you see these studios closing and you get the same game with prettier graphics is because you have shown with your money, thats what you want. Blame the publishers all you want but do not forget that it's a two way partnership between them and you so a good helping of the blame also goes to the gamer.

Wasn't a Visceral team working on a Jack the Ripper game? I fear this was it. :(

I STILL REMEMBER PANDEMIC STUDIOS,F U EA

Typical that companies do this they make a fantastic game and they go OK people PACK UP GET OUT YOU'RE DONE!!

Then the parent company makes out like a bandit while the people who did all the work are out of a job and steady employment!

It's the way of game industry and it needs to stop!! More companies are gonna lose good developers!

Just look at Infinity Ward and Activision as they are going to court in May of 2012!

Really hoping and praying to almighty God that each and every one of those employees will find another job very soon! Every time I hear about a company going under it really weighs heavily on me because I'm unfortunately looking for work myself.

AND THERE ARE LESS THEN A 1000 JOBS IN THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY IN AUS :(