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Ritual Entertainment's team page on the official website (www.ritual.com) has been updated. Within shows the current list of employees which when compared to the list compiled just a month ago, reveals the specific employees that no longer work for Ritual Entertainment and are are looking for work elsewhere. The following information has been taken from information analysed by forum member, MadOnion and states clearly all of the team members layed off in the recent month:
[Brian "BoBo the seal" Jones - Artist]All here at Ritualistic wish them all the best and want to thank them all for their talented contributions to the top video games we've all enjoyed for years. We thank those who participated on the boards and wish them all the best of future employment.
[Patrick Jones - Artist]
[Juan Martinez - Artist]
[Eric Smith - Animation Director]
[Jon "HoG JoNNy" Galloway - Project Manager]
[Jay Halderman - Project Manager]
[Mike "Psyko" Porter - Level Designer]
[Benson "elmagoo" Russell - Level Designer]
[Kenny Thompson - Level Designer]
[Chris Voss - Level Designer]
[Luke "weasl" Whiteside - Level Designer]
[Bill Schofield - Engineer]
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Under tremendous financial pressure to secure new projects for multiple development teams, Ritual Entertainment eliminated nearly a dozen members of the Tribe. Ritual's Tom "ParadoX" Mustaine confirmed the layoffs:
As most people know, Ritual Entertainment recently finished Star Trek Elite Force II, a game we are all tremendously proud to have developed. We had three very engaging projects lined up for the team, but unfortunately, none of them came to actual fruition. We found ourselves unable to maintain multiple AAA teams and were forced to release some of the most gifted game developers back into the industry's talent pool.Tom assured us that development of Ritual's other two titles will remain unaffected. Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is due out this summer and Counter-Strike for Xbox is slated for release this holiday season.
We here at Ritualistic would like to wish the Tribesmen affected by this all the best for their future endeavours.
