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Damnation Development Team Laid Off
![]() The entire team behind recent shooter Damnation has reportedly been laid off by developer Blue Omega Entertainment. According to documents uncovered by Shacknews Blue Omega was removed as developer of the game by publisher Codemasters in January. Development was then handed off to a pair of studios Blue Omega had subcontracted to work on parts of the game. Damnation began life as a contest winning Unreal mod back in 2004, with a team eventually working to turn it into a full retail product. The game was released in May to overwhelmingly poor reviews and minuscule sales. Sources - Edge Online; Shacknews. |
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incognitus
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Reno, Nevada
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Damnation was on of (if not the) worst games I have played this generation, maybe it's a good thingthe developers of this game won't be making another game together.
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Natural 20's!
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Wasn't this game at last year's PAX? If that was the game I played, then yeah... It was pretty bad.
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Did your Mom.
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its sad in the state of the economy to see anyone get laid off but.
AHAHAHAHHHAHAAH. Damnation sucked worse than Enter the Matrix .
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Colonist
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Bothell, WA
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I just reviewed it.. and yes it was at PAX last year where I played it as well. It's not THAT bad, but the achievements are horrible. That said, it makes Prototype look like a blockbuster.
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Colonist
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: London, England
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This game held zero interest for me, but I remember seeing some videos and thinking the whole verticle thing might have worked well. Oh well. Sucks when anyone is laid off, but if its really that bad perhaps it'll be an opportunity for them to seek other careers.
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I'm curious as to how bad it REALLY is. It's still on Steam for 40 bucks though, so I'm not that curious.
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A *** in the machine.
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To be honest, I still don't get how it won Something Unreal. There were far better entries that year. I played the mod version, and it simply wasn't very good.
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A Platonic solid...
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Well, it's really quite simple... none of those others used the word Steampunk in their descriptions.
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Steampunk is like catnip for geeks. The mere mention of it has us rolling on the floor purring like a chainsaw.
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A *** in the machine.
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I would have liked to have seen that as a fully developed product.
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Run Away!
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: East Bay, CA
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Air Buccaneers was good, but at the time the Team Ariel Combat mod(s) were still being played and really the only think AB had over those mods was original artwork.
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Colonist
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Bay Area, CA
Posts: 580
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Every screenshot I ever saw of that game looked like ass. Original Xbox games looked better.
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M3
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They got laid off for a reason.
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