MumboJumbo Acquires Ritual Entertainment

[Asuka]

WTH?

Now this is random..

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/45466

More painfull news.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/45471

 

[mortiz]

oh well, I guess that confirms it. Cya later SiN.

 

[63]

Quite a slap in the face for Ritual, heh.

 

[StardogChampion]

MahJong Turbo Extreme Deluxe... by Ritual Entertainment...

 

[liPillON]

now I want [email protected]

 

[Jintor]

That's weird.

 

[Asuka]

"The idea of acquiring Ritual was to have them strengthen our development in the casual genre and not to have them involved at all in the action style games," Cottam explained. "If there's an opportunity to have them do something on the SiN episodes, we would look at that, but that will not be the focus of the company. The combined companies will focus exclusively on casual, unless opportunities present themselves that we think are strategic from a business standpoint... Again, I wouldn't close the door on [traditional games] but that's not the primary focus."

Im pissed.

 

[Asknoone]

Well, Emergence was a steaming pile of manure, so yeah. Bye Sin.

 

[Gargantou]

Wait, since when isn't action-games a fairly casual genre?

 

[Absinthe]

Damn, this sucks. As mediocre as Emergence was, Ritual deserves better than to work on this kind of crap. Hopefully most of the talented people will find homes elsewhere in proper developers.