Dark Energy Digital, the studio behindHydrophobia, 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 theHydrophobiaIP, the Hydro Engine that powered it,World Championship Snookerand an unfinished Pool game.
Hydrophobiawas 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 aheavily patched versionof 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.
Dark Energy Digital heading into administration[GI.biz]
