Too Human developer to gain 80 new employees
Silicon Knights will nearly double in size after funding, will self-publish games.
After funding from state officials, the Ontario-based Silicon Knights, developer of 2008's Too Human, is to hire 80 new members of staff. The money will help bump the studio from 100 employees to 180.
It's not been confirmed exactly how much the Ontario state has given the studio, but reports put the figure at somewhere between three and four million Canadian dollars.
It's also been reported, via Develop, that Silicon Knights will become a self-publisher, although whether this will be for triple-A games has not been revealed.
Denis Dyack, Silicon Knights' president has said the grant is a "profound and long-lasting" support package.
Silicon Knights is currently developing X-Men Destiny, due for release this autumn from Activision. The studio has also confirmed that it will stick by the Too Human trilogy, which wasn't received all too well by critics when it was released a few years back
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FantasyMeister
It's a massive step for a development studio but I wish them luck. I've been wondering how they've been funding themselves because they haven't released anything for 3 years. Maybe they're surviving off Eternal Darkness and Twin Snakes royalties?
Bloodstorm