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by Jack the Ripper |
20th February 2006 |
Atari seems to have run out of its luck years ago. The company is in deep financial trouble and intends to sell some of its internal game studios. According to CEO Bruno Bonnell, the company has decided to "refocus our creativity efforts on external studios, rather than internal development".
As it follows, one should not be amazed if seeing studios like Reflections (Driver: Parallel Lines) or Shiny Entertainment (Enter the Matrix: The Path of Neo) were to end up on the auction block. On the other hand, Bonnell claims that all projects in development will be finished before their developers are sold:
We will be looking to sell our studios, but that doesn't mean that we're immediately putting a "For Sale" sign on them. They still have important projects to finish for us.
Atari is also considering cutting its workforce by about 20 percent worldwide as part of its restructuring plan. The company currently has 490 employees, meaning approximately 98 people would be fired. Unfortunately for the Americans, it seems that this concerns only them:
We have about 250 staff in the US, and that is too many. There has to be some adjustment. There will be none in Europe, though. They've had their pain already
I wonder... will we be speaking of Atari this time, next year?
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