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kotaku.com - 2/7/2009

Rumor: Namco Yanks Splatterhouse From Bottlerocket [Disturbance In The Workforce]

— kotaku.com — On the same day the Splatterhouse trailer debuted , Namco is rumored to have pulled the unfinished... project from Bottlerocket, dooming the California-based developer. Sources through the San Diego-area dev community - but not with Bottlerocket itself ... (more) Rumor: Namco Yanks Splatterhouse From Bottlerocket ...

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andriasang.com - 2/12/2009

Bandai Namco plans D3 buyout

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gametrailers.com - 2/7/2009

Splatterhouse NY Comic Con Trailer (video)

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Namco splits with Splatterhouse dev, game will be finished
Joystiq — ... Namco Bandai has confirmed that its upcoming next-gen reboot of Splatterhouse -- which we just saw at New York Comic Con -- is no longer in development at Bottlerocket Entertainment. Development of the game, which was the studio's only project, will ...

‘Splatterhouse’ Producers Give Gory Details, Have High Hopes For Sequel, Movie
MTV Multiplayer — ... MTV Multiplayer: Can we look forward to a “Splatterhouse” movie? Perhaps starring Paris Hilton? Tovar: [laughs] We would love to see that happen. We don’t know that it will right now. But we certainly have no problem with that. With or without Paris Hilton . Brown: As long as it doesn’t end up in the hands of a certain German director that has made a few video game movies. ***“Splatterhouse” will be out for Xbox 360 and PS3 this year. [Note: This interview was conducted before the Namco Bandai confirmed that the company is no longer working with the game's developer ...

Splatterhouse Developer Wishes Namco "The Best" After Being Axed
Kombo.com — ... employees their last paycheck. Other sources tell us that Bottlerocket will shutter in three months. Calls and emails to Bottlerocket went unanswered over the weekend and today. Another bit of speculation to hit our mailboxes over the past 24 hours places more of the blame on Bottlerocket than on Namco. We're told that the dev team was missing deadlines and turning in material that didn't meet Namco's standards thanks to some upper management issues at the Carlsbad studio. -- Kotaku They were professional in their parting words, however, and they may still have something up ...

Publishers busy doing what they're not supposed to: Switching developers
The Cut Scene - Video Game Blog by Variety — ... you that switching a game from one developer to another mid-production is a costly and difficult move that rarely makes sense artistically or financially. You have to transfer assets and get an entire new team trained not only on the technology modified for the game, but creatively in the mindset that has gone into its world, characters, and mechanics. It's really hard to justify. And yet... It sure seems to be happening this year. First came "Splatterhouse," which Namco Bandai took away from BottleRocket in February. The publisher is currently, according to my ...

Bottlerocket to take over development of Scratch: The Ultimate DJ
The Cut Scene - Video Game Blog by Variety — ... Those of you who have been paying too much attention to video game industry news will recognize several layers of irony here. For one, the reason San Diego-based Bottlerocket is available to take on this assignment is that it recently had a game it was working on, "Splatterhouse," taken away by developer Namco Bandai. So essentially, its last game was yanked by an angry (petty?) publisher and as a result, it's now taking on as an assignment a game yanked from another developer by an angry (petty?) publisher. ...