BioShock Studio Cloud Chamber Undergoes Layoffs, Appoints Rod Fergusson New BioShock Head

2K Games is laying disconnected an chartless fig of individuals astatine BioShock workplace Cloud Chamber, arsenic it undergoes efforts to "rework" its upcoming caller BioShock game.

It's besides installing erstwhile Gears of War caput and Diablo franchise pb Rod Fergusson arsenic caput of BioShock and Cloud Chamber astatine 2K. Fergusson departed Blizzard earlier this period with nary connection connected wherefore helium left, oregon who would regenerate him.

This was gleaned from an email sent by 2K president David Ismailer to unit and subsequently shared with IGN. It reads, successful part:

Work connected the adjacent BioShock crippled has been underway for respective years. While we’re excited astir the foundational gameplay elements of the project, we’ve made the determination with workplace enactment to rework definite aspects that are halfway to a BioShock game, and successful doing truthful are reducing the size of the improvement squad to absorption connected this enactment and springiness the crippled much clip successful development.

Employees impacted are being informed today. 2K did not stock however galore were impacted.

"I admit that contiguous is simply a time of mixed emotions," the email concludes. "We’re excited to person Rod joining us, and are arsenic grateful to everyone astatine Cloud Chamber who has helped america get this far. These changes are rooted successful 2K’s steadfast assurance successful BioShock arsenic 1 of the astir beloved franchises, and our committedness to present the champion crippled successful franchise history."

BioShock 4 was archetypal reported connected successful 2018, and quality has been fewer and acold betwixt since. We cognize it's been successful improvement astatine Cloud Chamber astatine slightest since then, and that erstwhile BioShock pb Ken Levine is not moving connected it. We've yet to spot immoderate gameplay oregon larn overmuch astir the crippled beyond that it takes spot successful a marque caller setting, and is unfastened world. Earlier this month, a Bloomberg study stated that the crippled would beryllium undergoing a improvement overhaul aft it was criticized by executives for communicative issues. When we asked Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick astir this a week later, helium reassured that BioShock 4 was "going to travel out" for certain, but did not stock accusation arsenic to when, oregon what needed to beryllium done to get it there.

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