Damnation dev team shut down

Posted Jun 30th 2009 10:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Action

Yet another game developer seems to have suffered an early death following the release of their main project. This time Shacknews is reporting the Maryland-based Blue Omega Entertainment may have closed up shop. The team was responsible for the recent third person action game Damnation, which was released in late May by publisher Codemasters to universally poor reviews. One of Blue Omega's now former programmers, Geoff Rowland, revealed the shut down a few days ago on his Twitter account.

Shacknews has also gotten court documents that show that Damnation (which began its life as a Unreal Tournament 2004 total conversion mod) had a troubled development history. The documents show that Blue Omega hired two other development teams to do contract work on the game but had issues with both of them and at one point Codemasters tried to remove Blue Omega from the game entirely.

Gallery: Damnation

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

This sucks. Fuck the reviews, I had a blast playing through Damnation and felt it was well worth $40. It certainly had some shortcoming but that never stopped it from being fun. I'm sad to see the developers being cut loose like this and the platforming/shooter experiment considered a failure. Also, if you have an affinity for the Tomb Raider style of play or enjoyed Uncharted on the PS3, definitely check out Damnation.

...bysmittyPosted at 7:46AM on Jul 1st 2009 by bysmitty