The developers behind Kingdoms of Amalur are only getting a tiny amount of what theyre owed.
Rhode Island developers 38 Studios went bankrupt after making just one game: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. The game was an action RPG set in a high fantasy world from the minds of R. A. Salvatore and Todd McFarlane, and although it received good reviews and decent sales for a AAA title, the company’s financials were handled so incompetently that the studio went bankrupt shortly after releasing their first game.
What made the 38 Studios bankruptcy so spectacular was the $75 million loan it had taken out from the Rhode Island commerce department to convince the company to move from Michigan to Rhode Island. The loan…
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