Silicon Knights has, according to rumors its staff had been reduced from 97 to 25 man. The developer announced in July plans for growth, which is achieved would be with the support of the Canadian province of Ontario.
From reliable sources site 1UP learned that in the past few months, three-quarters of the staff of Silicon Knights is dismissed. There would still only twenty-five men are employed, a message that has not been confirmed by the game designer. Silicon Knights is known of the appeared in 2002, Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem and the in 2008 published Too Human. At the end of september came X-Men: Destiny under the flag of publisher Activision, the latest game from Silicon Knights.
Silicon Knights received any regular financial support of the Canadian government, in July got the developer converted 2.2 million euros of the province of Ontario. With the money that was Silicon Knights plan to eighty new employees, self-games and a new game engine to develop. Why the company is now forced seems to shrink instead of grow, is not known.
Update, 22:07: Silicon Knights has the redundancies are confirmed across the Financial Post. According to cfo Mike Mays was the next project that Silicon Knights would work at the last moment abandoned. For this reason, forty people redundant personnel dismissed.
