A report says Take-Two Interactive is closing u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ developer Intercept Games as part of a plan announced earlier this month aimed at . Roll7, the developer of the OlliOlli games and Rollerdrome, is also being closed according to the report.
Word of the shutdown came by way of a (via ) of layoffs at Take-Two Interactive Software in Seattle. Intercept Games isn't mentioned by name in the WARN post, but Seattle is where Intercept— as part of Take-Two's Private Division label to take over development of Kerbal 2—is located. The WARN says 70 employees are being put out of work.
The WARN notice describes the action as a "closure," which led to speculation that Intercept Games wasn't just being cut, but eliminated entirely. Multiple job openings at Intercept that were listed on Take-Two's career page in January (via the ) have also been , although the Intercept website appears to still be trying to . The closure is slated to take effect on June 28.
The Bloomberg report effectively confirmed that speculation, citing internal documents saying Intercept Games will in fact be closed. Roll7, which was acquired by Take-Two in 2021 and made part of its Private Division label, is also being shuttered. Roll7's most recent releases were the side-scrolling skater and action-shooter , both of which launched to acclaim in 2022.
The apparent shutdown of Intercept has led to questions about the future of Kerbal Space Program 2, which after multiple delays—it was originally supposed to be out in early 2020— on Steam in February 2023.
The initial response to the game was not great: Bugs and performance issues were major problems, but so was the fact that it launched without features included in the original , which went into early access more than a decade earlier and hit full release in 2015. That resulted in a "mixed" user rating on , and a significantly lower concurrent player count than the much older original.
Take-Two declined to comment on the reported layoffs or the fate of Intercept as a whole: Instead it merely repeated, pretty much verbatim, its April 16 SEC filing about ""—a very C-suite way of saying that it's killing projects and putting people out of work—although it did add that "the [Private Division] label continues to make updates to Kerbal Space Program 2." That's not very informative but it is an interesting choice of words. Given that Intercept is (or was) the developer, u31 ทางเข้า I would expect it would be credited with making updates to the game, not Private Division.
In a posted after the Bloomberg report went live, whatever's left of the Kerbal Space Program 2 team said, "We're still hard at work on KSP2. We'll talk more when we can." It also re-posted Take-Two's earlier statement on the layoffs, which includes a note that "is not providing additional details" about the cuts.
The closures are the latest in a that have wracked the industry since the beginning of 2023. Just yesterday, Deliver Us Mars studio laid off its entire u31 เข้าสู่ระบบ workforce, and earlier this month Palia developer and Company of Heroes studio also made significant cuts to staff.
A Take-Two representative declined to comment further.