Vivendi cans 350, closes it's doors
According to CNN Money, Vivendi Universal Games has laid off 350 employees, representing 40 percent of their human assests in the U.S. and will close the doors of it’s Bellevue Washington studios by August.
Vivendi is a French based media conglomerate that seemed to have a lot going for it. Big names in games, Blizzard, Sierra, Hoyle, all came together under this roof. Popular opinion doubts it will have any effect on the bigger release titles that it sheltered, such as Half-Life 2 (Sierra, Valve) or StarCraft: Ghost (Blizzard), but future versions of those and others, such as the Hoyle card game line of titles is sure to suffer delays, if not flit away like smoke.
