About 30 Jobs Lost At 2K Sports
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001
Visual Concepts, the 2K Sports in-house studio handling NBA 2K, NHL 2K [[link]] and MLB 2K, cut roughly 30 positions, Take-Two Interactive confirmed today. Very few jobs, if any, came from the studio’s upcoming NBA [[link]] 2K11, its biggest moneymaker.(new
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A source with knowledge of the situation told Kotaku that this was mostly a routine downsizing; studios typically drop staff after a product ships, usually in its quality assurance ranks.
In this case, Visual Concepts had not cut staff after MLB 2K10 released in March; NHL 2K11 will ship on Aug. 24. Most of the cuts came from those two projects. While the position losses seem dramatic in terms of numbers, they do not necessarily mean the end of NHL 2K. It did not [[link]] lose any key positions in this downsizing, the source said. The
NHL franchise was scaled back to a Wii-only release this year.
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