Sega to close Stormrise studio

Wow, so few female developers in the photo.

How sad :(

Another good dev closed for unknown reasons..

That sucks, hopefully some of the guys that worked on medieval 2 will find there way to the main total war developer...

Are you freaking kidding me, medieval II total war is the best total war game of them all !!

They better make Medieval III next, I think most people can agree that rome and medieval are the best total war games..

Sega release a game that looks nothing like the E3 demo and as expected the game sells poorly yet it is this studio that is being closed down.

That's a shame. I still play Medieval II and its expansion. Another one bites the dust...

Aliens Colonial Marines really bit into their budget so its trying to cut off parts of itself that isn't needed to survive the devastation. SEGA will grow back healthier appendages overtime.

Medieval 2 was great, the rest of their games, not so much

Um...I though they bought Relic? (Canada I'm sure has much better tax breaks than Australia)

I hope one day companies stick around more and people go to the mbecause they're unique and not just high paying =\

Pity, another studio gone :(

the market is applying its self-cleansing abilities. i just wonder how many cleansings a company like sega and a few others can survive. they should have dies one whole decade ago, if not two.

Hate hearing news like this! London 2012 was the best Olympic type sport game ever by a country mile IMO

stormrise was not what you call a good game and being the last game the studio made quite some time ago and not having made anything else since, then I probably undertand.

This economy is becoming devastating.

not another quesadilla

Game developement is a very cut throat industry. They spend years on one project. If it's a flop, you get the axe.

@Bl4KD37H Why? They made some good games lately (like Racing Transformed), and Total War games continue to be great and sell well. They also just bought Relic.

Almost all the game developer studios left in Australia are phone/tablet platform targeted.

The sales expectations of large publishers are horribly unrealistic as we have seen recently with companies such as SE and Capcom. Then when they don't, they just close the studio and blame them for not reaching those targets.

Pfft. Its just Stormfall now.

spring cleaning...

Well. I feel so depressed these days when I come on Gamespot. I keep finding out all these developers who keep laying people off. I feel bad for all those people having to seek new employment. At least it's thinning out the masses, and natural selection is playing out in the gaming industry. Good companies get to stick around, companies that can't make outstanding games get ousted. This forces companies to make more intelligent decisions during game development hopefully, that's the silver lining to all this. Good luck, you people of Sega.

It's just a flooded market...I remember when I used to wait 2 or 3 months between game releases I was interested in...now there's at least one game a month that I want, and usually more than that...it's impossible to keep up and impossible for every game to do the numbers publishers expect of them.

Eddie, spell checker. Its Stormrise, not Stomrise. Stomrise sounds like something that happens to Judge Dredd when he's thinking of Hershey.

This is good to see, personally I feel that gaming should die eventually, it has already fulfilled many legacy's. Why continue to do like movies, and just come out with sequels, or reboots.

This is definitely the last generation. Too many studios closing, too expernsive. I'm very scared for the future of this industry as all too often I'm reading of closures and cancelled games and flops and so on.

Creative Assembly?! Unforgivable!

Instead of closing down studios that produce good quality games, how about focusing on actually advertising those games and instead close down other studios that produce garbage bin games, like I don't know, Sonic Team?