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Sega to close Stormrise studio

Publisher says it will shut down Sega Studios Australia later this year; no rationale provided.

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Sega Studios Australia will close later this year, the publisher confirmed with Kotaku today. No rationale for the closure was divulged.

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The Brisbane-based developer was established in 2002 as Creative Assembly Australia and was behind games like Medieval II: Total War, its Kingdoms expansion, and Stomrise.

The outfit was rebranded Sega Studios Australia in May 2011 and most recently built London 2012: The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games.

Sega cut 37 jobs at the studio last year.

It is not clear how many staffers will be affected by the impending closure or what will happen to any projects the company is currently working on.

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Microsoft should have bought them when they were making all those Xbox Exclusives for the original system. I don't know what M$ was thinking. They could have gotten their foot even deeper into the Japan gaming market if they had bought SEGA. Idiots.

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@blackace Microsoft can't even manage their current franchises and development studios. When they acquired Rareware back in 2002, that company started going in such stupid directions with some of their games. This is especially the case now where they now do only kinect titles and stopped giving a crap about their old IPs. What makes it worse is that these old IP's are always under rights disputes between Microsoft and Nintendo and whenever Microsoft wins they never end up putting their old games up or making new games with the IPs, they just let them go to waste. While Microsoft owning SEGA back in the early 2000's would have benefited them, odds are they would just end up mismanaging everything today and put SEGA in development of Kinect titles, and we wouldn't have ended up having the awesome classic games that Sega has shown respect for when re releasing them on modern consoles. Especially heritage collection which were the best re releases of classic games I have ever seen in the modern day.

Regardless of what SEGA is now, and what they are doing to Stormrise, at least whatever IPs they still have or have acquired recently from other publishers like THQ are being put to use. So no Microsoft owning SEGA would be the worst thing to happen to any SEGA fan.

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please sega go to japan and focus on eastern devs and market. you make better *** games

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@shadowboy88 They also made Total War and Football Manager games, both of which are very good.

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Some more lay offs, WTF is happening?

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What a crappy time for devs this week. :/

Well, I hope those people who are affected will manage to find alternative employment before the hammer falls.

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I got your rationale: Colonial Marines and recouping.

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wonder if they were working on anything,mm

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