Obsidian hit with layoffs, South Park team impacted

by Andrew Yoon, Mar 14, 2012 10:00am PDT

Obsidian Entertainment, developers of Neverwinter Nights 2, Alpha Protocol, Fallout: New Vegas, and the upcoming South Park game, has been hit with layoffs. While the company has yet to return Shacknews' request for comments, messages on Twitter and the company's message boards appear to confirm the downsizing.

According to a tip received by Joystiq, the layoffs will impact the studio's in-development South Park team. "Approximately 20-30 people from all disciplines, including one person who started yesterday, as well as one who started last week" were axed. Apparently, a "future next-gen project" the company was working on was canceled, which likely led to the sudden cuts.

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Obsidian Entertainment, developers of Neverwinter Nights 2, Alpha Protocol, Fallout: New Vegas, and the upcoming South Park game, has been hit with layoffs.

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Obsidian Entertainment, developers of Neverwinter Nights 2, Alpha Protocol, Fallout: New Vegas, and the upcoming South Park game, has been hit with layoffs. : Shacknews
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  Wow being laid off on your second day has to be the shittiest thing. Finding a job is so draining. This g... : barichnikov
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    Worst of all, what kind of severance package do you get when you're only there for a day? Are you even el... : AndrewYoon
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      His severance package was a box of paperclips and an Obsidian coffee mug ... : Keefinator
      
      The paper clips are worth more than the mug : Godhatesfatpeople
      
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      Probably left one hell of an upper decker in the cafeteria restroom. : daneloire
      
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      what does that even mean? : friedram
      
      http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Upper+Decker : Ride-My-Rocket
      
      Think about it. : Sailor of Fortune
- If they cut in the south park team, I'm guessing that they were counting on some of the funding of the ca... : snubble100
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  Unfortunately, being an independent AAA developer means that you're at the mercy of many different megapu... : the archvile
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    The root issue here is the fact that both of those developers kinda suck. : tw3kr
    - Obsidian don't suck. They have released some really great games GIVEN THE TIME AND FUNDING THEY HAD. T... : Peterborough
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  Damn love their work, even Alpha Protocol (go to hell metacritic one conversation in that game felt more ... : BillPaxtonator
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    The honeycomb quest and dialogue system from Alpha Protocol is absolutely mindblowing, it was probably the best thing about the game if we're being completely honest.
    I hope to see the same system implemented in other games.
    
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    The honeycomb quest and dialogue system from Alpha Protocol is absolutely mindblowing, it was probably th... : Memphis-Ahn
    - I didn't mind the combat too much, stat based shooting is not a terrible idea but even so it wasn't spect... : BillPaxtonator
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  Bad news... Fucking Microsoft. : Memphis-Ahn
  - Wow, not only Microsoft but Bethesda too: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/15/obsidian-missed-fallout-new-... : Memphis-Ahn

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