Tough Times for Lionhead Studios

Alice, over at the Wonderland blog, discusses Lionhead's decision to reduce the size of the company. The maker of The Movies and Black and White 2 has apparently not been doing so well financially this year. From the article: "Over the last few months Lionhead has been working on plans for a new AAA world class game. As work on a number of its titles draws to a close, a pool of 100 super talented developers at Lionhead are available to create a new super team at Lionhead. This will be in addition to an existing team which is working on an amazing next generation title. This strategy was presented to Lionhead this morning in a company meeting but sadly it will mean some redundancies."

Alkaline, meet Halogen

[hunterx11]

AAA world class game made by an amazing team? Well, that's a relief--at least they aren't putting out mediocre games!

The Movies

[wampus]

The Movies wouldn't be a bad game if they had some way to make Snakes on a Plane...

First to be axed: The Obnoxious Narrator

[WillAffleckUW]

If this means they'll have to stop having their Good and Evil narrators stop talking, or the Guildmaster not say "There's another quest for you at the Guild, Hero", then I'm all in favor of downsizing at Lion's Head studios.