Pendulo Studios launched last year Tintin Reporter: The Cigars of the Pharaohan adventure game with the Belgian journalist, but the title was released in a catastrophic version, forcing the developers to apologize on launch day. Like many other studios, Pendulo Studios will lay off employees after this failure.
This is what the Spanish media reports Aceciting the syndicate CSVI. Pendulo Studios will fire 33 employees, or 43% of its workforce . The union, linked to the CGTechoes the words of the studio members who affirm that Microids would have put enormous pressure on Pendulo Studios during the conception of Tintin Reporter: Les Cigares du Pharaon, the development team complied with the publisher’s “chaotic decision-making” knowing full well that this would lead to “delays or drops in quality”. Despite post-launch updates, the game’s image remained very negative with “average” ratings on Steam and only a test on Metacriticthat ofIGN France who gave a rating of 4/10…
Let’s hope that Pendulo Studios will manage to recover after this failure and these layoffs, the Madrid studio is known for its adventure games like Runaway, Yesterday, Blacksad: Under the Skin or Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo. You can find Tintin Reporter: The Cigars of the Pharaoh in limited edition from €23.99 on Amazon, Cdiscount, there Fnac And Gamesplanet.
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