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38 Studios Saves Big Huge Games
12:40AM Mike Fahey | Troubled real-time strategy and role-playing developer Big Huge Games lives on, with Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios stepping up at the last moment for a late game save. More »
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What Were Big Huge Games Working On (And Have They Found A Buyer)?
10:00PM Luke Plunkett | Big Huge Games used to be THQ’s baby. Now they’re on the chopping block. What got them to that stage? Maybe it was these two games, recently canned, that the company were working on. More »
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An Idea of How Large the Big Huge Layoffs Were
2:00AM Owen Good | An anonymous tipster representing himself as an ex-Big Huge Games employee advised us to compare the studio’s current team page with a cached version and count up the missing men and women. More »
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Big Layoffs At Big Huge Games
10:30PM Luke Plunkett | Hasn’t been a good couple of weeks for Rise of Nations developers Big Huge Games. First they were threatened with closure. Now, according to Develop, there have been a “huge number of layoffs”. More »
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Source: Leaked ‘Crucible’ Is Oblivion Designer’s New Console RPG
12:40PM Michael McWhertor | Sega’s denial to MTV Multiplayer earlier today that it was publishing the game seen in the leaked Crucible video that spilled out of the Intellisponse fiasco sounds legit, according to a source. We’ve been told that that clip has nothing to do with Sega’s game of a similar name, but is instead the work of developer Big Huge Games and Oblivion designer Ken Rolston. The former Elder Scrolls designer joined Big Huge Games last year to work on a “strikingly original” console RPG due to be published by THQ in 2009. More »
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THQ Snap Up Rise Of Nations Devs
4:45PM Kotaku US Edition | THQ, they’re a hungry crocodile. This is their story: after sitting silently at the bottom of the watering hole for hours, waiting, they finally saw it. Big Huge Games, treading gingerly down to the water’s edge, equal parts thirsty and wary. BHG took one sip of water…nothing. Two sips…nothing. Believing the coast was clear, they took a third. Which is when THQ struck, crashing out of the water, seizing the Rise of Nations and Catan devs in its vice-like jaws and dragging them swiftly beneath the bloody surface. THQ Acquires Rise of Nations, Catan Developer Big Huge Games [Gamasutra] More »
