Dead Rising 4 Developer Capcom Vancouver Has Closed Down

Dead Rising 4 Developer Capcom Vancouver Has Closed Down

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Richard Walker

Capcom Vancouver, the studio behind the most recent entries in the Dead Rising series including Dead Rising 4, has closed down. That means Capcom's primary western developer is no more following 30% of the studio's workforce being laid off earlier this year.

"As a result of reviewing titles in development at Capcom Vancouver, Capcom has decided to cancel the development projects at this studio and will concentrate development of major titles in Japan," a Capcom representative told Kotaku. "A skeleton crew will remain until January 2019 to finalise closure operations and logistics."

Apparently, 158 people will lose their jobs as a result of the studio's closure after 13 years of operation, Capcom Vancouver first forming in 2005 as Blue Castle Games and best known for its work on Dead Rising 2 and its sequels. A new Dead Rising game had been expected, but it's unknown where development duties will now fall for the zombie actioner's future iterations.

"We appreciate the hard work and contributions of all the studio team members in creating unforgettable gameplay experiences for the Dead Rising series and Puzzle Fighter," Capcom's spokesperson added.

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  • Whoever picks up Dead Rising now please take it back to it’s roots
  • Always shit seeing people lose their jobs but in all fairness are any of us surprised considering how poor the game was
  • Too bad Capcom couldnt be nice enough to at least correct their fuck ups on the Windows version of Dead Rising 4 and just give us the stinking achievements before shutting Vancouver down...not that I didnt give up hope for a patch long ago already
  • @#3 Indeed I guess they will take a valuable lesson with them to their next job never make a shitity game and then hide its real ending behind DLC and mess up the window store 10 version achievements.
  • @1 Agreed, it's not Dead Rising without the countdown timer or psychopaths! I like to think this is some guy pretending to be Frank, not the real one.
  • Well dead rising 4 win10 won't ever get patched now.
  • After what they did with one of my favourite game series I’m very happy they have been punished. Dead Rising 4 was shamefully bad. Dead Rising 2 was possibly my favourite but there’s no way many people from that game worked on 4.
  • @3 I've got the Win10 version long time ago and would have loved to see this title goes Xbox Live anywhere or cross-platform or something. The multiplayer is useless like the 2 CoD titles released on Win10...
  • i am just playing thru this after loving the early games, i gave this a miss due to the poor reviews, I only paid £10 though, I have been enjoying it so far but I would prefer the countdown timer to be back in the game
  • @7 Saying shit like that should warrant a ban IMO. Gaming industry is notorious for how harshly it treats its people, the crunch, the insane hours and minimal compensation. It's cool if you didn't dig the game, criticise away but let's not celebrate a studio full of hard working people becoming unemployed.
  • @10 There's a global lack of software developers, they'll all be fine. If you work for a game development studio you're insanely employable. I guarantee the majority will have jobs lined up by the end of next. It's shit and it sucks, but it's not the end of the world in this industry, it's frankly part and parcel. If the staff have any sense they'll kick off one or more indie studios and avoid shitty abusive publishers like Capcom apparently is.
  • It's always a shame to see people loose their jobs, that said though the last two dead rising games where terrible. 3 was a glorified tech demo with no challenge, 4 wasn't even that.
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