Retro Employees Get Fired, Maybe.

Psssst, guess what? Several employees over at Retro Studios got canned... I think... or maybe they quit? The details around their sudden departure are kind of cloudy.

According to Shacknews, "Design director Mark Pacini, art director Todd Keller, and principal technology engineer Jack Mathews were escorted off the premises last Friday."

For those of you worried about Retro Studios closing, or the future of the Metroid series, fret not, we've been reassured that Retro won't be closing anytime soon and Metroid Dread is being developed by Nintendo itself.


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Activision Shuts down Underground

In what I would call long overdue, Actvision is shutting down Underground studio. The 45 employees that worked at Underground are currently in the process of being relocated to other studios.

Originally named Z-axis, the studio worked on titles such as BMX XXX, X-Men: The Official Game, and the Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX series. More recently, Underground worked on the PS3 port of Enemy Territories: Quake Wars which is due out in May.









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