Black Rock Studio's is no more

[BountyHunterinc]

It's becoming quite a trend lately, as now another Team has been scrubbed. This time it is the Split/Second developer, Black Rock Studio's. They officially closed their doors today. Confirmation of the news comes from Nick Baynes, the former director of the Disney-owned studio.

"@blackrockster officially closes its doors today," said a statement from him on Twitter.

He continued; "Thoughts go out to all facing their last day. A bright future awaits all though I'm sure!"

News emerged back in July that the former Disney-owned studio was forced to close its doors due the cancellation of a free-to-play DOTA-style project, which was going by the working title of Champions Alliance.

Other projects that got terminated include a sequel to 2008 Quad-Bike Racer, Pure and a follow-up to last year's Split/Second.

Source: Gamasutra

[Nasty_Rory]

Pure was fun, wasnt at all taken in my split second - the demo was kinda poor so I gave the game a miss.

But its never good when people lose their jobs

[ScreechingOwl]

This is sad, I enjoyed Split/Second, however I read that Disney wanted to move in a different direction away from the ideas that the Black Rock team had in mind.

[Spark-N]

Split/Second was pretty good but i just dont think it stood out that much especially since Blur came out about the same time and i found that much better, this is sad though, its never a good thing when a Studio closes

[zairozen]

Pure would have been mutch more fun, if it werent for the fact that only people from europe were ever online. The game was decent. I would have enjoyed a second one.

Black Bock was a good studio. Shouldn't have closed.