Eh, it’s the circle of life game development.

Small studio makes great games, gets bought by big studio, big studio’s management flood small studio’s staff, the games developed suffer, big studio makes cuts firing almost everyone who was worth a damn, small studio shambles on in name only for a while longer before being mercifully put down. Meanwhile some of the fired devs band together creating a new small studio which makes great games, attracting the attention of a big studio…