Embracer Group has shut down Saints Row developer Volition “efficient instantly” as a part of its restructuring plan. The studio was on the eve of celebrating its 30-year anniversary earlier than the information dropped that its doorways could be closing for good. Volition’s final sport, 2022’s Saints Row reboot, was thought-about a industrial failure.
Volition posted a message informing followers that Embracer Group had made the choice to shut the studio following a restructuring program that aimed to place the corporate as “a frontrunner within the online game business.” Unfortunately, this meant Volition would get the brief finish of the stick amidst the restructure.
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Volition’s assertion on its closure reads:
“The Volition workforce has proudly created world-class leisure for followers across the globe for 30 years. We’ve been pushed by a ardour for our neighborhood and at all times labored to ship pleasure, shock, and delight. This previous June, Embracer Group introduced a restructuring program to strengthen Embracer and preserve its place as a frontrunner within the online game business. As a part of that program, they evaluated strategic and operational targets and made the troublesome determination to shut Volition efficient instantly.”
Volition added that it’s working “to offer job help and assist easy the transition for our Volition relations” as many builders could be left with out jobs after the closure.
Volition was first shaped 30 years in the past as Parallax Software Corporation earlier than formally altering its title to Volition in 1996. THQ acquired the studio in 2000 however when THQ went bankrupt in 2012, it was acquired by Koch Media and put underneath its Deep Silver publishing label. Koch Media would later be acquired by Embracer Group in 2018 together with Volition and its IPs.
Volition developed a number of video games over its three-decade run together with the Red Faction video games however it’s higher identified for creating the Saints Row collection consisting of Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Saints Row: The Third and Saints Row IV along with its final sport, the 2022 Saints Row reboot.
If you need to play the Saints Row reboot, it’s at the moment being closely discounted on Steam. It’s additionally included on this month’s free PlayStation Plus Essentials lineup.
Source: Video Games Chronicle
