Rumor: Mass layoffs at GRIN?

Posted May 27th 2009 8:30PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Biz, Action

They seemed to be one of the most successful independent game developers around. Now rumors have hit the Interwebs that European based developer GRIN has been hit with mass layoffs, which might include the shut down of two of its development teams.

Kotaku is reporting through unnamed but "multiple sources" that between 100 and 160 GRIN team members are affected by the layoffs. In addition two of the company's development teams (one in Barcelona, Spain and the other in Gothenburg, Sweden) will be shut down, according to the report. In addition the company's headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden have alledgedly let go of 30 team members.

GRIN has released three games inside of three months; the movie based Wanted: Weapons of Fate (released in late March) and two games this month; Terminator Salvation and the console versions of Bionic Commando (the PC version is scheduled for July).

Gallery: Wanted: Weapons of Fate

Gallery: Bionic Commando Screenshots

Gallery: Terminator Salvation

Tags: bionic-commando, grin, terminator-salvation, wanted-weapons-of-fate

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Expected kinda, their games were kinda average Posted at 9:12PM on May 27th 2009 by Game_playa

Couldn't this just be that they've finished their 3 major projects for now and are dumping QA staff and such because they don't need them right now?Posted at 7:28AM on May 28th 2009 by Ihavepants