endrant-studios posts

Formed just over a year ago, the 17 man team at UK-based Endrant Studios worked to create the multiplayer portion of Wolfenstein, the Activision published first person shooter that ships to stores today for the PC and other platforms. However, Gamesindustry.biz is now reporting that Endrant Studios has let go of a number of its team members on the same day the game is released.

A spokesperson for the developer would not confirm how many team members were let go, saying only that, "We have recently completed a development cycle and have regrettably been forced to make adjustments to staff and headcounts."

Two classic PC game franchises get new entries along with an all new RTS-FPS hybrid game:

Wolfenstein: id Software collaborates with their long time partner Raven Software for perhaps the final time in this latest entry in the game series that first launched the first person shooter genre. B.J. Blazkowicz is once again making things hard for the Nazi as they search for supernatural weapons to win World War II. The game's multiplayer features were handled by Endrant Studios.

If you haven't decided to buy the upcoming Raven Software-developed first person shooter Wolfenstein, the game's official web site has just posted up word of several pre-order offers that are now available when you put your money down a little early for the game. Naturally the pre-orders vary according to which retailer you decide to use.

You can check out the various pre-order deals after the jump. Keep in mind that the PC version may or may not have all of these pre-order deals:

It looks like the multiplayer portion of the upcoming first person shooter Wolfenstein has found its way to various pirate web sites and download locations on the Internet. Today, the game's official message board has a post from the game's community manager Peter Sokai admitting to the lead.

Sokai states, "I must warn anyone involved that Activision's legal department is taking this matter very seriously. Same applies here on the forums. If you mention that you have acquired this build, you are openly admitting to illegally obtaining the build and will be banned straight away. You have been warned." He adds that the leak is not from the final version of the Wolfenstein multiplayer build (developed by Endrant Studios). He further states, "After release we'll make our SDK available, as well as release updates to address feedback from the competitive community." It remains to be seen if this leak will affect sales of the game which is due for release later this month.

We are only a few weeks away from the release of Wolfenstein (it's due out on August 17) but nearly all of the game's previews have concentrated on Raven Software's single player campaign. Now GameSpot has posted up the first info on the first person shooter's multiplayer features which are being handled by UK-based web site Endrant Studios.

In the multiplayer Q&A it's revealed that Wolfenstein will have a team-based multiplayer design as you pick from either the Axis or Resistance sides. There are three character classes (medic, soldier, and engineer) and three multiplayer modes (Team Deathmatch, Objective and Stopwatch). Perhaps the most interesting thing about multiplayer in Wolfenstein is that the players can also access the extra-dimensional "veil" that's also in the single player campaign. Each character class will have access to their own special supernatural veil powers.