Kerbal Space Program 2 developer Intercept Games will lay off its employees at the end of June according to a senior team manager, despite Take-Two Interactive boss Strauss Zelnick insisting earlier this month that the studio hadn’t been shut down.
Word of Intercept Games’ impending demise – and the loss 70 jobs at the studio – came earlier this month via a decidedly official Washington state closure notice submitted by Take-Two itself, and was corroborated by affected employees on social media. Later, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier – after viewing an internal Take-Two Interactive email to staff – reported OlliOlli World developer Roll7 was also being closed down.
That didn’t stop Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick from later repeatedly insisting, “We didn’t shutter those studios.” But whatever semantic technicality Zelnick was invoking at the time, it isn’t one likely to impress employees at Intercept Games.
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