Eden Games goes on strike

The French studio Eden Games have gone on strike following cutbacks were 50 out of the studio's 80 employees were laid off by owners Atari. The studio are tired of the constant reconstructions and what they call mismanagement from Atari's side. They have four demands they hope will be met:

- Access and interaction with Atari boss Jim Wilson who has not talked with any of his employees at Eden.

- Constructive negotiations over the redundancy plans.

- Make sure Eden employees are compensated the same as Atari employees.

- Have an idea of the studio after restructuring, and gain access to financial records asked for by the Eden accountant.

"Restructuring plans have been following each others for 10 years at Atari. Each time the recovery project was beautiful and promising, and ended in a failure. We are sceptical about the proposed project," an Eden representative told Gamesindustry.biz.

In the light of what has been happening to Atari over the last decade it is easy to understand where Eden is coming from. Whether they are actually in any position to make demands is another thing...