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Torchlight studio Runic shut down, Gigantic devs also almost closed
November 3, 2017by [email protected] (Alice O'Connor)
GamePatchNote Digest
Hob News — November 3, 2017
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
The owners of Torchlight developers Runic Games, the Chinese free-to-play-focused publisher Perfect World Entertainment, confirmed today that it has shut down Runic’s Seattle studio. Seeing as that’s Runic’s only studio, er, that’s them basically gone – though their games will live on. This comes barely one month after Runic released Hob.
Perfect World have also laid off most the team at Motiga, the studio behind Gigantic – which only launched in July. Perfect World say these are unconnected but sheesh, not a good week to be owned by Perfect World. (more…)