Silicon Knights lays off 26 employees

[Green Man]

'temporarily'

"After any big game ships, there is always some attrition. Teams are lean and mean in the beginning, grow toward the end of the project, and then whittle down once the project is finished. To that end, Silicon Knights temporary [sic] laid-off 26 employees today while they ramp up on other projects. All the company's directors and leads are still at Silicon Knights and working on its next projects.

"The slight cutback comes after four years of unprecedented growth for the St. Catharines', Ontario (Canada) company, during which its headcount had expanded to more than 180 employees.

"Denis Dyack, President and founder of the company, stated, 'Silicon Knights is currently working on several new and exciting games that will be announced to the public in the coming months. In addition to those projects, Silicon Knights continues to develop and promote other new and original ideas, which will become the innovative games of tomorrow. These 26 individuals are hard-working and valued team members that we hope to bring back as we ramp up on our future projects.'"

This is awesome.

[duckman2000]

People losing their jobs is "awesome?" 

[demi]

It is, for me

[Third]

No Too Human 2 confirmed?

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

So I guess Dyack's plan of creating a utopia in Canada from all his Too Human revenue has come to naught.

 

[Grecco]

That freaking sucks. Loosing your job because of incompetency of leadership

[Howard Alan Treesong]

"temporarily"? is that a threat?

[TVC15]

Canada is getting huge for video games, so I'm sure they won't have any trouble finding a new home.

I am sure if they worked on animation or textures they will have trouble finding a new home.

[chronovore]

Canada is getting huge for video games, so I'm sure they won't have any trouble finding a new home.
At least the won't have to work under Denis.

(cause he's fat)

Canada has a lot of video game development in some areas, but not others. The country's huge. Ontario's not necessarily as ripe for employment as Montreal or Toronto, just as Bakersfield and Colorado may not have as many dev houses as Los Angeles or San Jose.

[Phoenix Dark]

so how much has Too Human sold collectively?

[Bocsius]

so how much has Too Human sold collectively?

This much
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[duckman2000]

Well, let's just hope no one went through much trouble relocating there.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

Silicon Knights had 180 people on their payroll?  And has put out four games in the last 13 years?

Fuck game development, Dyack needs to be some sort of financial consultant, or at the very least, the guy we sent out to borrow money from Asia.  He's REALLY good at it.

[chronovore]

Silicon Knights had 180 people on their payroll?  And has put out four games in the last 13 years?

Fuck game development, Dyack needs to be some sort of financial consultant, or at the very least, the guy we sent out to borrow money from Asia.  He's REALLY good at it.

More than that, I wonder how many of that 180 was contract/temp headcount; if it was all salaried full-time headcount, and they can get by with only laying off 26 people after Too Human-level sales, he is probably a financial wizard who could ostensibly turn around this whole Bailout situation.