Blue Omega Suffers Damnation

Katrina "ShadokatRegn" Pawlowski July 1st, 2009 at 3:59 PM

Earlier today, we posted our review of Damnation, a highly anticipated co-op title. We went into this review with an open mind, in spite of the other reviews we'd read. It was not our intention to post this less-than-thrilled review on the eve of such terrible news for the developers. We wished the outcome were different both for the review, and developers circumstances. Unfortunately, the Development staff for Damnation have all hit the unemployment lines after recent layoffs.

From an outside perspective, we can't really know exactly what happened, but we do know that the entire Blue Omega team has been laid off from Codemasters. According to Shacknews, lawsuits were filed, a lot of fingers were pointed, a lot of mistakes were made, and the final product (Damnation) suffered greatly because of it.

We will not be changing our game review, the game itself was what it was. However, we at Co-optimus.com would like to wish the team at Blue Omega the best of luck in finding new, and better prospects in the future!

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6 Total Reader Comments

smurphster at 11:02 AM on 7.1.2009

i'll second that! these guys are obviously true visionaries but for whatever reason, got cut short or hindered in some way. very sad. good luck!

Willtur at 12:44 PM on 7.1.2009

bummer man, I hated the game but with 2 more months of tweaking it and system link it could have been nice.

Dodomaster at 01:26 PM on 7.1.2009

Too bad, but this happens all the time, not just in the games industry. You can't deliver, you get sacked.
Oh well, best of luck to them!

daribus at 01:36 PM on 7.1.2009

I agree with Dodomaster and I think you are going to a greater length of being sorry then you have to. The game sucked and they were let go. "We wished the outcome were different both for the review, and developers circumstances" a good game would have made the outcome different. The people who should be saying sorry is the staff for Damnation who have put out a game that is lacking all over.

Quantumvm at 04:58 PM on 7.1.2009

Yeah, I had a bad feeling about the game to begin with.

Brainp0wa at 09:32 AM on 7.2.2009

Aw, that's too bad. I thought the game had an awesome concept, but I am guessing they knew their heads were already on the chopping block so they half-assed it while probably trying to stretch it out as long as possible.