2K Australia is the studio behind Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. They also had a hand in developing games like the BioShock franchise, SWAT 4, and Tribes: Vengeance to name a few. The reported reason for the closure was due to the high cost of operating out of Australia.
A move to Melbourne was tentatively planned for the studio, but this news caused many staff to leave. This may have also been a contributing factor in the studio's closure. 2K's official statement on the matter is as follows.
We can confirm we have taken steps to begin the studio closure process for 2K Australia in order to better manage ongoing development costs while improving the working proximity of our creative teams. We are very grateful for the team’s valuable contributions to numerous 2K projects, and are working with affected staff to explore reassignment opportunities where possible.
Best of luck to all of those who have lost their jobs as a result of this latest studio closure.
(via Kotaku AU)
Here we go:
*Deep and long inhale again.*
Congratulations on making it through the entire list, or at the very least scrolling through the entire list to reach the bottom.
For that effort, I'd like to offer you a copy of Takedown: Red Sabre for Steam. PM me if you read this and are interested. It's not a great game, but it's a good way for you to understand the INTENT to make a tactical shooter, but due to development conditions and restrictions they were put under, the game ended up in the state none of us wanted. And from there, you'll have a better appreciation for Epsilon as it won't be under the same conditions and restrictions. Remember jimykx, we're not alone in the desire to have a tactical shooter that offers options beyond lethal force. Don't give up all hope yet. We still have options, and it's not limited to Rainbow Six: Siege.
Thank you for your time.
Once again I want to thank you for taking your time to go through all of this, I got to the middle of the posmortem but I can't continue because I'm still in the middle of my day and currently I'm really busy with classes.
I do intend to continue listening and also reading your various posts on their forums. Once I have done finished reading I will send you a PM so that I can try that game out. I also intend on doing a youtube video (in portuguese though) explaining all of this situation, with some swat 4 gamplay, some takedown and maybe some from rainbow six siege, because I have a very big group of friends where we all used to play SWAT 4 together some years ago, following most of the tactics taught in the VOWS clan (they had an amazing and active community, but with the death of Gamespy they just died out too in the Swat 4 area. I rememeber how amazing where their in depth explanations of tactics in SWAT and how we all used them and loved teaching new people into the game. We felt so professional!).
So sorry that I can't go through it all right now, but I will and once I do I will tell you so as I intend to develop a little project about it
Edit: jimykx, since you were in the closed alpha, could you tell me if this satire parody trailer represents the current state of the alpha? The let's plays I've seen seem to look that way as well.