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4 days agoDeus Ex Studio Eidos Montreal Is In Trouble After Fresh Layoffs
Eidos Montreal is laying off 124 employees and studio leader David Anfossi is stepping down amid project changes and previous layoffs.
It's the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint, brought to you from my in-laws' basement in western PA where the wind chill has temps near zero. I'm currently blogging with an original Xbox to my right and the Sega Genesis version of Shaq Fu to my left. I am trying to put the finishing touches on my January backlog plans.
During Sony's State of Play event in September, Aspyr revealed Deus Ex Remastered, an "improved" and "better" looking version of the original, a beloved sci-fi immersive sim developed by Ion Storm and released in 2000. Almost immediately, the reaction online turned negative. People, myself included, weren't happy about all the textures being replaced with newer, higher-resolution assets. These didn't mesh well with the old models and geometry