Hydrophobia studio to be sold off as redundancies loom:
Dark Energy Digital, the studio behind Hydrophobia, is all set to enter administration while staff members face redundancy. Workers were informed last week, and a number of them have already lost their jobs.
According to sources within the company, employees are worried about outstanding payments, a problem not unusual in these kinds of situations.
Administrators will be selling the Hydrophobia IP, the Hydro Engine that powered it, World Championship Snooker and an unfinished Pool game.
Hydrophobia was released in 2010 and received fairly negative reviews. The studio would earn notoriety for claiming that reviewers "played the game wrong" and harassing multiple Destructoid editors on the phone. Later, DED attempted a U-turn by issuing a heavily patched version of the game, and later an "improved" Steam version. The game was supposed to be episodic, but DED spent so much time obsessing over the first installment that it never got a second one out of the door.
DED will enter administration within the next ten days.
Dark Energy Digital heading into administration [GI.biz]
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