Capcom closes studio behind Dead Rising games

Capcom Vancouver, the studio that made the Dead Rising games after the first two parts, is going to close. It is the developer’s largest studio outside of Asia. About 158 ​​workers lose their jobs.

Until January 2019 there will be a minimum occupancy, for the handling of the closure. In a statement to Kotaku, Capcom said it had decided to close the Vancouver studio after “reviewing games still in development at Capcom Vancouver.” The developer wants the production and development of its biggest titles to be carried out in Japan. Fifty of the two hundred and fifty employees had already been laid off in February of this year, leaving the future of the next Dead Rising game uncertain. What will happen next with the Dead Rising series is not yet known.

Capcom Vancouver was founded in 2005. The first two Dead Rising games were developed in Japan, but as of 2010, the studio was commissioned to work on the sequels. A total of two sequels, four DLC packs and a remake of Dead Rising 2 have been developed by Capcom Vancouver. Dead Rising is a third-person action game where the player has to fight hordes of zombies while searching for other survivors.

Screenshot from Dead Rising 4 (Xbox One)