Publisher THQ has announced the doors of two game developers, Digital Warrington and Kaos Studios, will close. Kaos Studios was responsible for the shooter game Homefront, which three months ago was released.
THQ confirms compared to website Gamasutra that the Digital Warrington and Kaos Studios is going to close. When the studios were respectively about 45 and about 70 employees. The conclusion of the game developers is, according to THQ part of a strategic realignment. The publisher announced in may in fiscal year 2011 to a loss of 136,1 million dollars to have ago.
Kaos was founded in 2006 by the developers of the Desert Combat-mod for Battlefield 1942. The latest title from Kaos’s Homefront, that in mid-march, appeared and of which more than 2.6 million copies have been sold. The THQ offices in Montreal will be the development of the Homefront series to take over and is working on a sequel. The British Digital Warrington made his name with the Juiced-racing games.