{"id":45885,"date":"2023-09-02T03:39:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T03:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/02\/developer-volition-shuttered-after-30-years\/"},"modified":"2023-09-02T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T08:45:08","slug":"developer-volition-shuttered-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/02\/developer-volition-shuttered-after-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer Volition Shuttered After 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-203505\">\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<h2 class=\"storySubTItle\"><\/h2>\n<p>The studio behind the Saints Row collection is formally gone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"masthead aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nintendojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Volition-Studio-Logo-640x360.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the tip of a three-decade run for developer Volition. Revealed two days in the past and commented on publicly by the studio in the present day, Volition has been shuttered by guardian firm Embracer Group, efficient instantly. Volition put out the next assertion relating to the closure on the corporate\u2019s X account:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-theme=\"dark\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">A letter to our neighborhood. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vtFM7szLbN\">pic.twitter.com\/vtFM7szLbN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Volition (@DSVolition) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DSVolition\/status\/1697645816410780120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-203508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nintendojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Volition-Closure-Letter-09.01.23-288x360.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nintendojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Volition-Closure-Letter-09.01.23-288x360.jpeg 288w, https:\/\/www.nintendojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Volition-Closure-Letter-09.01.23-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.nintendojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Volition-Closure-Letter-09.01.23-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.nintendojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Volition-Closure-Letter-09.01.23.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/center>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The studio was based in 1993 as Parallax Software program and launched with profitable titles like <em>Descent<\/em> and <em>Descent 2<\/em> on PC. Ultimately, the studio cut up into Volition and Outrage Leisure, with the previous happening to helm widespread titles like Free House, Pink Faction, the Summoner collection, and, after all, Saints Row. Evidently the lukewarm response from followers to the latest Saints Row reboot could be on the coronary heart of Embracer\u2019s choice to shut down Volition. The event and launch of the 2022 collection installment was fraught with adverse backlash from followers and met with seeming hostility from the studio itself in on-line discourse. It\u2019s a tragic finish to a studio with fairly a pedigree of beloved video games and powerful expertise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supply:\u00a0<\/strong>Volition X Account &amp; GamesIndustry.biz<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendojo.com\/news\/developer-volition-shuttered-after-30-years\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The studio behind the Saints Row collection is formally gone. It\u2019s the tip of a three-decade run for developer Volition. Revealed two days in the past and commented on publicly by the studio in the present day, Volition has been shuttered by guardian firm Embracer Group, efficient instantly. Volition put out the next assertion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1017,14061,2046,425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45886,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45885\/revisions\/45886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}