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    #1

    SCEE redundancies

    Sony dropped the axe & announced a load of new redundancies to SCEE studios at 3pm today.
    I have no details more than that at present.
    Does anyone have friends who work there and can verify?
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    #2
    It's going to be the staff from their Liverpool studio who got absorbed into the rest of the company I'd wager.

    RIP Psygnosis

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      #3
      The press release carefully steps around mentioning any actual job losses, but uses language that usually means redundancies such as 'streamlining'.

      Sony cancels games across UK studios
      http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-09-sony-cancels-games-across-uk-studios
      Sony has cancelled a number of games in development at its UK first-party developers and made an undisclosed number of …


      Develop's piece is more to the point.

      http://www.develop-online.net/news/37253/Jobs-on-the-line-as-Sony-cuts-UK-projects
      Last edited by Flabio; 09-03-2011, 16:13.

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        #4
        Originally posted by abigsmurf View Post
        It's going to be the staff from their Liverpool studio who got absorbed into the rest of the company I'd wager.

        RIP Psygnosis

        I hope our forum members are ok

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          #5
          Blimey, it really is rough in dev land out there. I'm quite glad I'm out of it now.

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            #6
            Originally posted by EvilBoris View Post
            I hope our forum members are ok
            What of the non forum members? Are they to rot in Hell for eternity?

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              #7
              Well, they did work for Sony...

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                #8
                Originally posted by dataDave View Post
                What of the non forum members? Are they to rot in Hell for eternity?
                Well that's an over-reaction. Clearly he wasn't inferring anything of the sort.

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                  #9
                  Yeah, everyone knows that people who aren't registered here don't go to hell

                  They get stuck in purgatory!

                  Remember Proverbs 21:19

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by abigsmurf View Post
                    Yeah, everyone knows that people who aren't registered here don't go to hell

                    They get stuck in purgatory!

                    Remember Proverbs 21:19
                    Prov. 21:19 - "Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife"?

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by dataDave View Post
                      What of the non forum members? Are they to rot in Hell for eternity?
                      Worse! They get sent to Burnley!

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by InvisibleKid View Post
                        Prov. 21:19 - "Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife"?
                        Is that not true?

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