Melbourne development studio Transmission Games, best known for their work on Ashes Cricket 2009, has let go over 30 of its employees this week, Kotaku has heard.
Transmission Games is padding up for the launch of its Ashes 2009 cricket game on all platforms later this month, but the boss of the Melbourne developer reckons the PC is the best platform for future Aussie sports games.
PALGN has a tight interview up with Mike Fegan, CEO of IR Gurus. The developer was recently acquired by US publisher Red Mile Entertainment. Along with his thoughts on this recent event, Fegan talks about the Oz government’s dismissal of the 40% rebate for game developers (a topic also broached by GDAA president Tom Crago when he spoke with Sumea a few days ago).
I am 110% in support of the GDAA on this matter as I know from spending literally years of my life knocking on the doors of overseas game publishers that at the end of the day ALL international publisher’s are ‘risk adverse’ and if you can in anyway help them to alleviate their perceived risk in a project they will look upon your deal proposal favourably.
Mike Fegan Interview [PALGN, via Sumea]
