“We have been transparent with them for months about the state of affairs and are making this decision now so that they still have enough time to look for new work while being supported by our studio,” he said. By the middle of last year, the studio had about 30 employees.
V1 Interactive was founded by Lehto, the co-creator of the Halo franchise, with Disintegration as the only published title. The game was first considered a real-time strategy title, but was gradually formed into an FPS before the official announcement in July 2019. It was launched in June last year, but our review of the game said that the simple shooting and the group’s management dropped its campaign ‘fairly flat’.
Support for multiplayer was shut down three months after release, and publisher Take-Two (Strauss Zelnick, CEO of the Private Division) called Disintegration’s sales a bit disappointing.
This is the second private department studio under construction in recent years, with the development of Kerbal Space Program 2 moving to a new, in-house studio of independent external studio Star Theory with half of Star Theory’s employees in February 2020. word. Those who remained at Star Theory eventually had to close the studio, due to the inability to obtain new publishing contracts.
Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.