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[Arachnid]

RIP Silent Hill Downfall and Bladerunner

I was legit looking forward to those games.

 

[CliffBronger]

Forgot they where making Blade Runner..

I was really looking forward to that.

 

[Mr Moose]

So it's 25 people in the publishing section that walked? Shouldn't be too much to worry about.
Why did they want to spin off that division?

 

[DeepEnigma]

I shouldn't have asked.

 

[mckmas8808]

Yeah, so from what I'm reading, Ellison wants Annapurna Interactive (their gaming publishing arm) to focus more on AAA titles than on indie game publishing, which is the complete opposite of what Nathan Gary and his team were trying to achieve under this Annapurna Interactive label.

Tbh, good for them, and like I said in my previous post, I see no reason why these guys won't get the funding they need to create a new indie label and continue finding and supporting great indie projects. I'll play almost anything these guys publish.

This is truly distrubing to be honest. Business executives in the gaming space are starting to become the dumbest business people on Earth. I'm sure some kind of way GAF will blame this on DEI though.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I shouldn't have asked.

First thing I thought of was Anthony Robbins.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

So Ellison couldn't reach an agreement with her dad to buy out the spin-off org, so instead she conspired with the staff for them all to quit and follow her into a brand new organisation.

Pretty bold strategy.

 

[Mokus]

Is that one of the characters from Concord?

 

[iNvid02]

shes a useless nepo baby

 

[PeteBull]

Knowing western dev culture its likely that some1 misgendered some1, then

 

[Goalus]

Remedy making deals with Xbox, Epic and Annapurna

Extending their targeted platforms to Playstation is missing in your enumeration.

 

[adamsapple]

Keighley was indirectly responsible for all of this happening lol.

MSN

In February, Nathan Gary, the longtime leader of the indie video-game publisher Annapurna Interactive, was in Las Vegas for the annual DICE convention, schmoozing with old colleagues and catching up on the latest developments in gaming. One evening at dinner, Geoff Keighley, a video-game industry personality, approached Gary with an unsettling bit of news.

According to people familiar with the conversation, Keighley related that he’d just seen Gary’s boss Megan Ellison — the 38-year-old owner of Annapurna and daughter of billionaire Oracle Corp. Co-Founder Larry Ellison — eating elsewhere in the same restaurant with one of Gary’s former colleagues, a rival executive who he’d helped push out of the studio years earlier under tense circumstances. At first, Gary and his group thought Keighley was joking. Then someone else confirmed it.

 

[mckmas8808]

Keighley was indirectly responsible for all of this happening lol.

MSN

Keighley doing the Lord's work! Geoff was very helpful in this instance.

 

[Roberts]

shes a useless nepo baby

She is a nepo baby but far from useless. Annapurna made possible some of the best films of 21st century.