{"id":3043,"date":"2008-08-14T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T16:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2008-08-14T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T16:15:21","slug":"lay-offs-at-high-moon-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3043","title":{"rendered":"Lay Offs At High Moon Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/highmoon.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/highmoon.jpg','popup','width=307,height=80,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/highmoon-tm.jpg\" height=\"52\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Highmoon\" \/><\/a>When knew that when video game giants <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.activision.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Activision<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivendi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vivendi<\/a><\/strong> merged there would be some changes at Carlsbad-based video game developer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.highmoonstudios.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">High Moon Studios<\/a><\/strong>. We just didn&#8217;t know how deep the cuts went. According to <strong>Gamasutra<\/strong> they went nearly 30 percent deep.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The layoffs, which apparently consist of a notable portion &#8212; as many as 60 &#8212; but not a majority of the developer&#8217;s more than 150 staff, were telegraphed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=19611\" target=\"_blank\">July 29th statement<\/a> from new owner <strong>Activision<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hope <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> doesn&#8217;t loose too many of the talented minds behind <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkwatch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darkwatch<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>The Bourne Supremacy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=19611\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When knew that when video game giants Activision and Vivendi merged there would be some changes at Carlsbad-based video game developer High Moon Studios. We just didn&#8217;t know how deep the cuts went. According to Gamasutra they went nearly 30 percent deep. The layoffs, which apparently consist of a notable portion &#8212; as many as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}