Native Melbourne studio Torus Video games has successfully closed with the studio saying they’ve laid off eight employees. The information comes through native journalist Jack Ryan on Twitter. In response to Ryan, who has spoken to Invoice McIntosh, the studio’s founder and proprietor, it’ll simply be him operating issues for now with no new tasks within the works. So, whereas the enterprise stays, technically, they’re not making something anymore.
Torus won’t have the extra present recognition of different native studios. Nonetheless, for those who performed a licensed Wii, Nintendo DS, Sport Boy Advance, Sport Boy Shade and even the Sport Boy recreation in your life, you’ve in all probability performed one in every of their video games – they’ve greater than 140 of them. Extra lately, they labored on Lego 2K Drive and content material for Fortnite. Their first recreation was a Sport Boy tie-in for the unique Stargate film in 1994.
Unhappy to see one other studio go, particularly one with a thirty yr historical past.