• Starhawk dev LightBox lays off 24, steps away from consoles
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[url]http://www.shacknews.com/article/76262/starhawk-dev-lightbox-downsizes-to-focus-on-ios[/url]
[QUOTE]The PlayStation 3-exclusive spiritual successor to Warhawk [B]received a lukewarm critical and commercial reception[/B][/QUOTE] No..? Last I checked it got positive reviews, not bad ones. I'd like to say good for them for moving on, but I noticed that they're moving on in the wrong direction really. Why phone/casual crap of all things?
I was about to say "Good for them for joining the PC master race", But then I read: [quote]Starhawk developer LightBox Interactive has laid off 24 people as it prepares to move away from shiny big console games with a smaller, self-funded game for iOS[/quote] [quote]a smaller, self-funded game for iOS[/quote] [quote][b]iOS[/b][/quote] There are no heroes left in man.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;38092476]less money to develop, sony won't publish a pc game for them i would assume, its coming out of their pockets[/QUOTE] I guess you have to make do to get by. Still, if I was in charge of a development studio, I would rather whore myself to kickstarter than lose good developers and work for...Apple products.
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