“60 THQ dev jobs gone in new digital push”

Sad news I am affraid, job cutbacks have occured at Juice and my job has been put “at risk” along with 2 other colleagues out of the 4 in the core tech team I was in. The cutbacks are a result of the rapid decline in on the shelf sales of games and therefore THQ are going down the digital route (PSN/XBLA). A more generic THQ report can be found at 60-THQ-dev-jobs-gone-in-new-digital-push. To be honest I am more annoyed at the lack of a resulting title after 2 years of heavy technology development, my team worked really well together and we managed to get a whole lot of complex systems developed in a short time (quite surprisingly shorter than was expected, and we were not being liberal with resource allocation either!). It was always a turbulent ride on the current title just like the previously cut title Stormbirds, a lot of ideas/features/tech came and went pretty rapidly within the last 2 years so I cannot actually describe, if I was allowed to, what the title would have been like anyway.

So.. I am curently seeking a new position (core technology or art tools development), feel free to contact me via email if you have any such vacancies.

Cheers,

Neil

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