Californian developer Oddworld Inhabitants is to move away from the videogames market, according to studio president Lorne Lanning, who says that the firm will now focus on the film and television sectors. Speaking in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Lanning confirmed that his game development studio, which most recently created the critically acclaimed Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, has been shut down, with the company being moved into the Bay area and planning to work in other mediums in future.
The firm hopes to move into content creation for television and film, sectors in which the barriers to creating computer animated content have fallen massively over the last few years - in contrast to the games industry, where the bar to entry is rising even higher with the arrival of the next-generation consoles.
News source: GamesIndustry.biz
