GRIN Shuts Its Doors

It is with a heavy heart we announce today that GRIN has been forced to close its doors. This as too many publishers have been delaying their payments, causing an unbearable cashflow situation.

After twelve years of hard work, employing hundreds of wonderfully talented men and women, it is over. It has been a great adventure and the GRIN family has experienced what few have. 

Looking back at twelve years of games, titles such as Ballistics, Bandits, GRAW 1 & 2, Bionic Commando Rearmed, Wanted: Weapons of Fate, Terminator: Salvation, Bionic Commando and our unreleased masterpiece that we weren’t allowed to finish; it has been a great ride. 

The workers that stopped by seemed like really cool guys. Too bad for them :(

I never played anything other than the Wanted demo (should probably get BC Rearmed sometime) but this is sad news to see any half-decent game developer close its doors.

Sad stuff, never good to hear about something like this.

O wow that sucks although none of  their games have been outstanding there seemed like tons of potential there

Never Forget <3

Another studio bites the dust...

Too bad. Those who were on the podcast were cool guys.

that really stinks. the podcast they were on where you tasted candy for 40 minutes was absolute gold. RIP GRiN.

I'm dead on the inside. I'm going away for awhile. Those guys were great.

That is a total bummer. I though BC:Rearmed was totally wonderful, a remake that enhanced my appreciation of the original game to boot. It's a damn shame to see those guys and girls go, depriving the video game world of another completely badass techno soundtrack.

Hopefully they can return in another form.

While GRIN never fulfilled there full potential, I think they certain proved themselves to be passionate about making good games and less interested in just shoveling out crap. Sad to see them reach the end of the road. Though, curious what this "masterpiece" project was going to be.

I find it a bit peculiar that I just happened to finish Bionic Commando Rearmed right before this press release came out. It's always a shame to hear about companies closing their doors & people getting laid off, not to mention that this was a hard-working company that had a banner year with big releases (granted, the releases didn't do so hot). I also got truly attached to the guys from Grin whenever they came onto the Bombcast (the Swedish candy taste-test is a classic). 
 
I wish them all well.

Well, that sucks :/

All of those games had one thing in common: they were just milking franchises, and what little story they did add to each one was cliche and pretty boring

Make better games next time.

But...Turkisk Peber is Danish :O

Tis a sad sad day indeed.

That blows. 
 
Giantbomb.com/sv-SE Make it happen.

That's too bad.

It was once asked in the forums what your most memorable/favourite moment on the podcast was.  Mine was the Swedish candy taste test.

Very sad about the news.  They were really talented guys though, I have no doubt that they'll pop up somewhere else.

" While GRIN never fulfilled there full potential, I think they certain proved themselves to be passionate about making good games and less interested in just shoveling out crap. Sad to see them reach the end of the road. Though, curious what this "masterpiece" project was going to be. "

What a shame, those where good games. Not necessarily great all of them but good.   
 
 The part where they spent half the budget on djungelvrål was a bad decision in retrospect.

  Aww that's too bad. :\

And don't pour out the Turkish Peber it goes quite well with Vodka.

The best podcast I ever listened to was the one where these guys were on and they brought all that Swedish candy.  The reaction to the taste of them was awesome.

its sad, but i cant say im too surprised.

Shame, they seemed like a great group from the podcasts, even though they brought their crazy Swedish sweets.

It just sounds seedy as hell that publishers can delay payments to a point where the developer goes bankrupt. Surely there ought to be rules against this sort of thing?
 
Shame, really. Say what you will about Terminator, but both GRAW games still kick immense amounts of ass and Grin will have a special place in my heart because of them.

Did GRIN even make a good game? I dont think so. Now all we need is for Midway to close its doors

Major bummer, those GRIN guys were some cool dudes.

 Its too bad. Those are some of my favorite guests you've had on the podcast. Wanted was a "good game." Terminator was meh and Bionic didn't live up. They should still be able to survive, though. This economy has just torn people to shreds and its too bad we lose developers over this.

They had better release the BC:R trophy patch in europe, since we've already been promised it, and I would never have bought it if I'd known it didn't have trophies from day one

I will still contend that Bionic Commando is one of the best games to come out this year.  This is a damn shame. :(

Tråkigt, tråkigt :(

Their work on the PC versions of GRAW was excellent, especially GRAW 2.
 
*sad face*

Djungevrål is one of the best candy you can get if your after something salty. 
With Turkish Peber you can make good drinks from.  How dare you Jeff.  
Your my enemy now.  
 
Regarding Grin; sad but not all   surprising.
 
 xoxoxoxoxo 
Emil from Sweden.  

 It's a sad day for lovers of weird Swedish candy on the bombcast.

While I should have seen it coming, I held out hope that they would make something that would blow up and be huge. Bummer. 

that sucks, but i am not surprised at all. 

They did pretty well to last this long, considering.  I can't help but feel they should have concentrated on finishing and releasing the 'masterpiece' before all of those mediocre license cash-ins.  
 
It's a shame - as it is when anybody loses their job or their company - but I don't think they can really blame anybody else for their inevitable demise.  If you consistently produce mediocre games which don't sell, then eventually you will run out of money, regardless of cash flow issues.