Damnation team sacked by Codemasters?
News - Behind the scenes problems come to the fore
Blue Omega and Codemasters' Damnation didn't exactly go down well with the critics when it was released last month, and it seems the game's publisher wasn't best pleased with studio's efforts.
According to Kotaku, the entire development team of Damnation at Blue Omega has been laid-off by the publisher.
The sackings have resulted in a raft of lawsuits, which allege that Codemasters effectively relieved Blue Omega from development duties on their own game. Lawsuits related to the game's release target two additional studios, one of which apparently continued development work despite Blue Omega's instructions, while another just didn't do a very good job.
Poor sales of the game haven't helped these problems, and all in all it is becoming clear why the game has faired so poorly.
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