Who do you miss the most?

Studio closures are coming thick and fast

Published 2009-11-23

In the latest poll here at Gamereactor we ask you, the reader, to tell us which of the following closed down studios you miss the most.

Let us know who you will miss the most by voting in the poll to the right.

Here are some descriptions of the closed down studios included in the poll:

Bottle Rocket Entertainment
Best known for Rise of the Kasai (PS2), Bottle Rocket were working on Splatterhouse, but Namco Bandai took them of the project.

Deadline Games
Danish outfit that gave us Total Overkill and most recently the downloadable Watchmen: The End is Nigh episodes (PSN/XBLA).

Ensemble Studios
The studio rose to fame with the Age of Empires series, but after completing Halo Wars for Xbox 360 Microsoft decided to close them down.

Factor 5
Sure, the name lives on with a German office, but the development studio in San Francisco is gone. Responsible for classics such as Turrican and the Rogue Squadron games, things went downhill after they completed Lair for Playstation 3. A couple of cancelled projects due to Brash Entertainment's bankruptcy and Factor 5 was history.

Flagship Studios
When Hellgate: London failed to capture the attention of the masses there wasn't much left for Flagship Studios to do than fold. They had bet the house on Hellgate: London, and we never got to see a fully realised version of their promising Mythos title.

GRIN
Most famous for the PC versions of the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter games and Bionic Commando the Swedish developer was forced into bankruptcy this summer.

Midway Newcastle (Pitbull Syndicate)
When Midway's assets were sold off to Warner Bros. the Newcastle studio was not included in the buyout. Without a new owner arriving, the company was quietly put to sleep. The studio was best known for their work on the Test Drive series and most recently on L.A. Rush.

Pandemic Studios
One of the hottest developers in the early and mid 90's Pandemic delivered hits such as Star Wars Battlefront, Mercenaries, and Destroy All Humans. However, things went downhill from there and new owners EA decided to pull the plug after only owning the studio for two years.

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