A Sony representative has told Kotaku that SCEA has confirmed "the working agreement with developer SuperBot Entertainment has amicably ended." Upcoming DLC for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale will continue to be supported by Santa Monica Studio, but it seems that SuperBot—studio that was founded pretty much just to develop PSAS—may have to shut down after significant lay offs two weeks ago.

This probably means that All-Stars won't be seeing a sequel, I'd think. Unless there's the possibility of another development studio handling it, of course.

— Kotaku

Video games are fun.

Well that must especially blow for Seth Killian, leaving Capcom to work on this and now he might be out of a job entirely.

I'm not that surprised though, the game didn't sell too well and I don't think anyone has taken it even remotely seriously competitively. (...more ly)

Impressive. :(

@Sooty said:

Well that must especially blow for Seth Killian, leaving Capcom to work on this and now he might be out of a job entirely.

Seth is working at Sony Santa Monica, not Superbot.

@Sooty said:

Well that must especially blow for Seth Killian, leaving Capcom to work on this and now he might be out of a job entirely.

Not at all. Seth Killian was hired as a lead game designer for Santa Monica studio; he simply worked on PSAS, most likely when it was already deep into its development anyways. He'll be fine.

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Sooty said:

Well that must especially blow for Seth Killian, leaving Capcom to work on this and now he might be out of a job entirely.

Not at all. Seth Killian was hired as a lead game designer for Santa Monica studio; he simply worked on PSAS, most likely when it was already deep into its development anyways. He'll be fine.

OH.

It must be Clockwork who worked at SuperBot, that sounds more right.

@Cincaid: Too early to tell about Sanzaru and Nihilisitc was a piece of shit company even before developing on Sony's platforms.

@msavo said:

@Cincaid: Too early to tell about Sanzaru and Nihilisitc was a piece of shit company even before developing on Sony's platforms.

What's the supposed story with Sanzaru? This is the first I've heard of this.

@iAmJohn: Nothing. People are making educated guesses. The Sly HD Collection performed well, which they developed, and Sly 4 looks to be a moderate hit. I'm buying it tomorrow anyway. Who knows though it could bomb hard.

To the surprise of no one.

@iAmJohn: @msavo:

Wow that's the first I heard about the sanzaru mass firing. That's honestly too bad. It's so weird hearing stony talk about how important developers are then cutting them once they're done with them.