Rumor: Gearbox Lays Off 26, Drops Aliens: Colonial Marines - Update: Gearbox President Responds [Disturbance In The Workforce] (flag)

kotaku.com — Update: Gearbox president Randy Pitchford tells us that the Sega published Aliens project is still on, that the independent developer has been undergoing "some transformative changes" resulting in "some talent changes." His full statement is after the original report. We've heard from ...

Aliens: Colonial Marines

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Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

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Gearbox lays off employees, Aliens: Colonial Marines still safe
Destructoid — ... On Friday, rumors began circulating that Gearbox, developers of the Brothers in Arms series, handed walking papers to as many as twenty-six employees. Speculation as to why ran from lackluster sales of Hell's Highway to, God forbid, Sega pulling out of Aliens: Colonial Marines, forcing the developer to cancel the project.. ...

Gearbox Makes "Tactical" Layoffs
Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today — Multiple reports emerged over the weekend claiming that Gearbox Software, the independent developer of Brothers in Arms fame, has had to make as many as 26 jobs redundant in its Texas-based development studio. News has now come through that the outfit s upcoming Aliens: Colonial Marines to be published by Sega has not been cancelled. According to Kotaku , company president Randy Pitchford has stated that the layoffs were related to the company s production cycles: "Over the last six weeks, we ve been adjusting our internal strategy to move from being about opportunity, ...

Gearbox 'Adjusting Internal Strategy'
GameDaily BIZ Features Feed — Following a report from Kotaku , which stated that Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway developer Gearbox had cut as many as 26 staff, president Randy Pitchford acknowledged that his studio has been going through some changes, although he wouldn't confirm full-on layoffs at the company. In fact, he said that Gearbox is hiring at the moment. "In 2005, after having a lot of success with games from Half-Life: Opposing Force to Halo on the PC to our original Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30 , we embarked upon a strategy where opportunity in the industry and the ambition of key ...

Funcom, Gearbox Hit With Major Layoffs
The Escapist : Latest News — ... , but Gearbox President Randy Pitchford denied that was the cause. " Aliens isn't canned," he said. "We've made some transformative changes and yes, that's meant some talent changes, but that's not the real story. The true relevance of the story will actually be irrelevant until we release our next game, at which time I hope there will be a lot of interest in what we've done that can produce such results." In a separate statement to Kotaku , Pitchford said the layoffs represented a new strategy at the company, "[away] from being about opportunity, ambition and growth to a ...