Kid Icarus: Uprising studio closed down

[garyopa]

Project Sora studio says goodbye



The studio who made Kid Icarus: Uprising has closed its doors

Sad news we have here. It seems that Project Sora, the devs behind the popular Kid Icarus: Uprising for the 3DS has closed its doors.

According to CVG:

Last night the studio's homepage went blank, with a lonely message: "This company was dissolved on June 30th 2012. We thank you truly for your patronage. This home page will close on July 31st 2012."

Project Sora was actually a subsidiary of Nintendo and a division of Sora Ltd. - Sakurai's company. It was planned that Project Sora would co-develop the new Super Smash Bros. with Namco Bandai, but as it stands it doesn't look like that will be the case. We expect Sakurai to still be around for the game.

There has been no official statement from the company, apart from what is on its website. The fate of the employees remains unclear.

From Maxconsole we want to send our support to all those devs that have lost their jobs even after the amazing work they have done with Kid Icarus.

NEWS SOURCE #1: Kid Icarus uprising studio closes its doors (via) CVG
NEWS SOURCE #2: Project Sora (via) Official Site

Our thanks to 'Kaos2K' for this news item!

[billysastard]

[sarcasm]i'm so shocked that a studio set up with a single purpose to produce 1 game and only one game would close once it had got that game to market as its staff get re absorbed back into other projects [/ sarcasm]