9/24/2023 0 Comments Zenimax online studio![]() ![]() The only jobs Zenimax has recently advertised for for in Madison Wisconsin (the physical location of Roundhouse) is for Zenimax Online Studios, Wisconsin branch. ![]() There are currently 202 job roles being advertised across all studios. Zenimax has been hiring quite aggressively over the last six months while I've been paying attention. When there are no jobs, it just lists them as empty, but you can at least select them. Roundhouse Studios has no entry on the Zenimax Jobs Website Again, you can see here, every other Zenimax subsidiary has one, even if no jobs are currently going. Alpha Dog does indeed have one and has for at least the time I've been paying attention (the last 6 months). But ok, Alpha Dog predates this totally brand new studio Roundhouse, so maybe that's why? 2. They were acquired within one month of each other, for reference. Ok, odd but it's only been 16 months since they were acquired, right? Alpha Dog doesn't have one either. Roundhouse Studios has no website and the Zenimax website link under their name just redirects to the Bethesda homepage. But that's not really what makes me scratch my head.ġ. Why am I talking about all this? You might think the above is all a bit of an odd legal manouver that can be worked out in court, but that otherwise, the studio is just working on something secret. Fair enough, right? Although they do at least show a photo of Alpha Dog. During the round table interview, at 1 hour and 45 seconds through, they mention Roundhouse Studios and Alpha Dog, which they say they can't talk more about because they aren't ready to reveal the projects they're working on. Influencers and reveiwers were sent a fake decapitated human head as a promotional item, which was weird. The not so subtle dig at Human Head Studios - the "Decaptiation Edition" launched shortly after the lawsuit was filed. Through these actions, the co-conspirators undermined the release of Rune 2 and attempted to destroy any chance that Rune 2 or Oblivion Song might gain market share.” This made a rescue of Rune 2 all but impossible. After the merger became public, the co-conspirators refused to turn over the games’ source code. ![]() “Bent on snuffing out potential competition, the conglomerate instructed its new employees to keep the merger secret and breach their contractual obligations. It also argues that ZeniMax played a key part in Human Head’s plans to dodge agreements with the wronged publishers behind this lawsuit, going so far as to say ZeniMax helped pen announcements and emails surrounding the shift. Throughout the legal complaint, Ragnarok says that Bethesda and ZeniMax nudged that effort along out of fear that Rune 2 would compete in some way with its own game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.Īccording to the lawsuit, the staff and equipment of Human Head was acquired by ZeniMax nearly a week before the closure was announced or before Rune 2 would release. Nevertheless, it appears Chris Rhinehart must have been on at least vaguely good terms with some people at Bethesda: Human Head resisted this attempt, which put them in major financial stress and resulted in the total cancellation of Prey 2 and the termination of the business relationship between Bethesda and HH. Eventually, when the financial situation becomes dire, Bethesda was then to step in and acquire the company as a solution to their mounting debt problems. Human Head cannot sustain itself without this funding, so it must either seek loans from the publisher, or external parties. Bethesda started to claim that Human Head was not reaching it's milestones. ![]() I don't recall if they asked to do so up front or not, but whatever the case, they eventually started engaging in a practice known as milestone-abuse. Bethesda/Zenimax decided that they wanted to buy Human Head Studios. The game had got a very positive reception from it's E3 demo. Prey 2 was in development circa 2011-2012, published by Bethesda. ![]()
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