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Disney cuts jobs, drops Turok sequel

Layoffs confirmed but firm stays quiet on dino shooter's demise
Propaganda's Turok sequel has reportedly been axed and numerous staff laid off as Disney becomes the latest casualty of the global credit crunch.

Following the news that just about every other publisher has been forced to make layoffs, CVG learnt yesterday evening that employees of the house of Mickey became the latest to suffer. We contacted the company's UK office but have yet to hear back.

Disney US confirmed to Kotaku that Propaganda Games is in the process of laying off 35 or so of its employees, a move supposedly related to the cancellation of Turok 2.

This has yet to be confirmed however, with Disney simply saying that no such game has yet been officially announced, which is true.

The company's also planning to consolidate a bunch of its studios, including Avalanche Software and Fall Line, the developers behind the likes of Chicken Little, Hannah Montana and The Chronicles of Narnia.

More soon.

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Posted by voodoo341
Hope they sack that Mickey Mouse *******..
Posted by WHERESMYMONKEY
Can't say i'm that saddened By the demise of Turok 2. The remake was for the best part a pile of garbage that destroyed pretty much all the things that made the series on the N64 do great.
Posted by voad
I had no idea that the house of mouse had the rights to Turok.

Anyway, I thought that Disney had bought Junction Point studios and Spector was working on his TOON game. I didn't see any mention of that, I'm worried :(
Posted by _Marty_
Global credit crunch, or were they stopping a terrible sequel to a terrible game. That new Turok mess was a frikkin' disaster, and a disgrace to the original Turok name.

I'm finding myself constantly irritated by devs using 'iconic characters/IP' to sell sub-par games...
Posted by ensabahnur
they'd be as well to. the **** hasn't made a decent film in god knows how long. how does he justify getting paid what he does. ****in sponge :x
Posted by Random Hangman
Wow!! You REALLY hate that mouse, don't you???
Posted by ensabahnur
»yep just as much as Cuddles the monkey hates that duck :lol:
Posted by Biggwedge
Turok needs to go back to Nintendo, it really was the perfect fit...

The economy and the fact that the game didn't meet expectations are likely to blame, but the HD business model has a big part to play too.
Posted by milky_joe
I still can't believe they turned Turok into some generic space marine garbage...
Posted by Barca Azul
Its no shock. Turok demo was woeful!!
Posted by YCshinobi
Nobody wants a sequel to (new) Turok, Someone needs to remake the classic Turok games and keep things exactly how they were in the originals, well maybe with a few changes/fixes, but no team space marine crap, and no regenerative health crap, and no carry two-to-four weapons only crap.
Posted by spam23
YAY! No more Turok crap. Man that shit was awful.
Posted by The Kool Kid
I actually like'd the remake...
Posted by Cernunnos
what, no more hannah montana games? might as well sell my consoles on ebay now...
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