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Silicon Knights Rumoured to have Laid Off 75% of Staff


"Who will pay for Denis's whores now?!" said Denis.

You know Denis Dyack, the outspoken head of that company that made Eternal Darkness, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes and then crapped things off with Two Human? He's the guy who complained about how hard it is to work with Unreal Engine 3 and tried to sue Epic Games over it, even though every other development studio was easily putting out triple-A games with the technology (see: Mass Effect, Batman: Arkham Asylum and nearly every other game released in the last three years). Yeah, you know who I'm talking about. That guy.

Well, now he can also be called the guy who (probably) laid off 75% of his staff because his company hadn't released a good game since 2004. Did you know that Too Human was supposed to be a trilogy? Nobody could stand to play one of them, so who the fuck would pay for two more?

I've never liked Dyack—he ranks up there with David Jaffe and Jonathan Blow on the pompous game developers scale—so I'm happy to see him fail, but I do feel for the employees he's laid off. Perhaps they'd like to come work for me. I can't pay them in real money, but I can pay them in uplifting words. "You did a good job there, David; and, Kevin? You keep up the great work."

Via 1Up.

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Eek

I feel that this news vindicates everything I've ever said in an Internet forum.

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Psycho Gorilla

Because it does.

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Psycho Gorilla

Also, "'Who will pay for Denis's whores now?!' said Denis" is the best line I've read in weeks.

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CommieCatGirl

Jew Human