Native Melbourne studio Torus Video games has successfully closed with the studio saying they’ve laid off eight workers. The information comes by way of native journalist Jack Ryan on Twitter. In keeping with 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, in the event you performed a licensed Wii, Nintendo DS, Sport Boy Advance, Sport Boy Colour and even the Sport Boy sport in your life, you’ve most likely performed considered one of their video games – they’ve greater than 140 of them. Extra just lately, they labored on Lego 2K Drive and content material for Fortnite. Their first sport 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 12 months historical past.