Shadow Gambit Team Mimimi Forced to Close Over Rising Genre Costs
Patches, new content still planned.
Mimimi Games, the team behind this month's Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew and 2020's Desperados III, has shared the unfortunate news it will be closing down. This is because the dev's "future production costs are growing faster than potential revenues of our genre. The increased financial pressure and level of risk became unsustainable," it's explained in a blog post on the studio's website. Mimimi Games will now slowly wind down production and contact other studios to try and find work for its current employees.
The post continues: "As founders and directors, we found it increasingly difficult to strike a balance between fulfilling internal expectations for the studio and being available for our young families. Meeting our goals of quality, company culture and management requires a constant level of energy that we simply can’t provide anymore." To help with this transition, all employees are being paid a bonus.
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