Atomic Games haven’t had a great time of being a videogames developer, with Konami pulling their support to publish Six Days in Fallujah following the media furore.
According to a source, ”less than a dozen” staffers now remain at the studio and that’s ”a skeleton cleanup crew” on the way out too. Atomic are trying to ”downplay” all these events.
”Out of 75 people, less than a dozen are left and about a third of that isn’t even developers. The remaining team is basically a skeleton cleanup crew that will be gone soon too. They are trying to downplay the extent of these layoffs, but the reality is that Atomic is pretty much dead,” an anonymous source told IndustryGamers.
Six Days in Fallujah was based upon the actual events that took place during the U.S. led operation against the Iraqi city, and was said to have had involvement from ex-Marines who had toured during that time, providing guidance and authenticity to Atomic developers.
US and UK media attacked the games design and so did several pro and anti-war groups, which led to publisher Konami pulling support of the title. A wise, or gutless move?
