38 Studios News

Before we turn out the lights on Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, let me at least give a little discredit where discredit is due.

In the wake of video game production outfit 38 Studios' collapse - and frontman Curt Schilling eventually learning there's nothing left to harvest from the Rhode Island Money Tree - we've waited with baited breath for some kind of statement from the former Phillies/D-Backs/Red Sox hurler .

The Providence Journal has a strong front page story today by veteran scribes Mike Stanton and Andy Smith explaining Curt Schilling's side of the 38 Studios debacle.

Diablo 3 Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim The Elder Scrolls Online 8Realms Star Wars: The Old Republic Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online Minecraft Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Curt Schilling has admitted his personal $50 million baseball fortune may be wiped out after investing it in a Rhode Island studio that last week buckled under its own debt.

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Curt Schilling is blaming Rhode Island economic development officials and its governor for much of the financial troubles facing his video game company.

Game director Matt Firor on the state of MMORPGs today and opening the gates of Tamriel to the whole world.

For Rhode Island, 2012 may prove to be one of the biggest years for economic turmoil.

Four hundred people were laid off from Curt Schilling's business "38 Studios," and now other businesses across the street from One Empire Plaza are feeling the effects.

May 25, 2012 -- PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Groups of laid-off workers left the headquarters of 38 Studios between noon and 1:30 p.m. Friday, many with boxes or bags.

The ongoing events in Rhode Island concerning Curt Schilling's star-crossed 38 Studios and state loan guarantees have focused attention on the regional video game industry as well as video game-related economic development policy.

Big Huge Games , a studio in Timonium that designed rich, immersive video games, has closed its office and only a skeleton crew of employees remained as its parent company in Rhode Island appears to have gone out of business, according to online reports.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee on Friday said former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's video gaming company is again in violation of a loan guarantee agreement with Rhode Island after it failed to notify state officials of mass layoffs, and that he'll seek an audit of the company's finances.

A gaggle of lawyers from Cranston to Los Angeles -- including a former R.I. lieutenant governor -- shared close to $545,650 in payments from the state-backed sale of $75 million in taxable revenue bonds for former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's collapsed video-game venture, 38 Studios.

Videogame maker Avalanche Studios recruiting Providence talent Avalanche Studios, a videogame company with offices in New York and Stockholm, Sweden, held a job recruitment event at the Westin Providence Hotel on Thursday, where they interviewed talent from the troubled 38 Studios.

Those words from Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chaffee sum up the downfall of 38 Studios better than anything else ever could.

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's video game company, 38 Studios, has laid off all of its employees in the wake of financial difficulties, according to a key company consultant.

From WPRI After days of controversy and turmoil surrounding the fate of 38 Studios, all of the employees at Curt Schilling's gaming company received pink slips.

In a move that even some cyborg-slave owners might condemn as a bit cold and inhumane, the bosses over at Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developer, 38 Studios, having failed to pay employees has now laid them all of via an incredible email dismissal.

Former Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Curt Schilling and the company he founded, 38 Studios, had to lay off its entire staff on Thursday.