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Kaos Studios Closes its Doors
Post by Steve Farrelly @ 11:34am 14/06/11 | 15 Comments
Gamasutra is reporting THQ have confirmed the closure of Homefront developer, Kaos Studios, based out of New York, along with Digital Warren Studios, just months after the release of the not-so-well-received Homefront.

According to the report, this closure is based on THQ's "strategy of aligning the best industry talent with the company’s marquee franchises", with the publisher's Montreal Studio now taking over Homefront development duties. They also mentioned they're expanding their Montreal, Austin and Vancouver studios, and that any employees from the two closed-down studios would be eligible to interview for positions at the aforementioned.

Despite lacklustre reviews, Homefront did sell more than one million copies in its first two weeks on sale worldwide.











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Raven
Posted 11:45am 14/6/11
... any employees from the two closed-down studios would be eligible to interview for positions at the aforementioned.

Just like any other member of the general public with a similar resume and technical background eh?
"We'll happily give you the opportunity to re-apply for your own old job".
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Fixah
Posted 11:56am 14/6/11
Kaos Studios Closes its Doors
nooooooooooooo, not my favourite adult store!!

any employees from the two closed-down studios would be eligible to interview for positions at the aforementioned.
They better have been mentioned in the credits.. oh wait..

Homefront did sell more than one million copies in its first two weeks on sale worldwide.
Damn, so many chumps, so lil time!
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Dazhel
Posted 12:37pm 14/6/11
"We'll happily give you the opportunity to re-apply for your own old job".


Heh, yeah. I don't know why they even bothered with that line.
If they were really interested in retaining those staff members they could have simply transferred them instead of booting them out the door. Also, I can't imagine anyone they do actually re-hire is going to feel extremely loyal on their return.
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infi
Posted 01:01pm 14/6/11
I like Homefront and still play it. Don't know what they're complaining about. It shit all over MW2.

Edit: Actually I didn't like that I couldn't kill middle Eastern people in it.
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Eorl
Posted 01:14pm 14/6/11
Apparently it was to like COD infi, that's why it didn't do oh so well.
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Fixah
Posted 01:23pm 14/6/11
I like Homefront and still play it. Don't know what they're complaining about. It shit all over MW2.

Edit: Actually I didn't like that I couldn't kill middle Eastern people in it.
Yeah and I loved MW2, especially that No Russian scene at the airport filled with western people. Easily best game ever man.
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Dan
Posted 01:24pm 14/6/11
Homefront multiplayer was and still is quality, it was the singleplayer that led the mediocre reviews. Similar fate with Brink, though it benefited from it's far more obvious focus on the multiplayer portion and made more reviewers acknowledge that.

It's a shame that a MP FPS game can't be really successful without a solid solo campaign these days. The days of Quake 3 and BF2 are long behind us.
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infi
Posted 01:37pm 14/6/11
BF2 was huge and it had zero single player. I didn't even finish the Homefront SP, because it did indeed suck.
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Kf
Posted 03:21pm 14/6/11
The homefront engine overall is very very dated, for the price they wanted on steam its a joke game.
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Yerolo
Posted 05:19pm 14/6/11
Regardless of this news.....THQ confirms development of Homefront 2

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-13-thq-confirms-homefront-2-plans
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Totenkopf
Posted 07:32pm 14/6/11
about time too, fuck them for releasing crap games...fuels of war and homefront
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skythra
Posted 07:47pm 14/6/11
Oh wow yerlolo.

Kick to the groin.
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scuzzy
Posted 08:43pm 14/6/11
Regardless of this news.....THQ confirms development of Homefront 2
oh cruel!
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Hemerage
Posted 09:48pm 14/6/11
Why did I chose this industry >_<
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Rhys84au
Posted 10:36pm 14/6/11
homefront multi really was/is great but it def takes ideas from the MW games.

alot of the bad press tho was due to stupid bugs such as the rank loss bug, where if you clicked to goto the leaderboards from the main menu it would erase your earnt levels/ranks. they eventually fixed it but it was ongoing for like 4 or 5 weeks.
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