Hudson Entertainment Is Closing -- Hudson Soft Not Affected

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Posted February 8, 2011 - By Nikole Zivalich

Hudson Entertainment has announced they will be closing at the end of the month. The brand manager, Morgan Haro, posted a blog confirming the studio's closure. Hudson Entertainment is the American branch of the Japanese company Hudson Soft. Maro also addressed the issue of Hudson Entertainment's future titles, "It was revealed today that all of Hudson’s previously planned projects have been canceled and that our office will be closing its doors at the end of February." The parent company Hudson Soft was recently acquired by Konami and will not be affected by the closure.

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csan8725

so a company who developed mediocre games is gone? i guess thats news

Posted: February 9, 2011 8:39 AM
sinewave

Noo Bomberman!! Actually a 3ds port of Bomberman64 would have been very nice. Loved that game

Posted: February 8, 2011 10:09 PM
sinewave

Bummer. Once I saw this news I realized how cool a sequel to Milon's Secret Castle/Adventure Island and Dino Riki would be.

Posted: February 8, 2011 10:08 PM
Severnik

Seems like the economy is finally catching up to gaming companies. First Bizarre Creations, now Hudson Ent. I guess when games have a multiple year development cycle, you aren't affected by the state of the economy until you get your game out. Very sad to see this happen. ;---;

Posted: February 8, 2011 8:57 PM
DPsx72

I liked their games. You know what we should do and what the majority of people want, close Activision and stop production on all their awful games. Use their money to keep all these better developers open for a few more years.

Posted: February 8, 2011 7:05 PM
camaro72toy

I wanted to comment on this hours ago, they made a lot of the early games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. For the life of me, I can not even think of one. By todays standards, they were all crap, but back then, at least they were something to play, and half of them weren't that bad for their time.

Posted: February 8, 2011 6:17 PM
RockieOllie

eh, Mario Party fell off around 3 i was glad to see them changing up some of the formulas just a bit. Then they took out DK as a playable character...

Posted: February 8, 2011 5:29 PM
aodmisery

everytime i see that bee it remnds me of milons secret castle for the nes.

Posted: February 8, 2011 5:01 PM
xL7717

Sad to see them closing down. I got a lot of enjoyment out of the Mario Party series. Sure, the past few ones were pretty much crap IMO, but it was a great series nonetheless.

Good luck to the workers.

Posted: February 8, 2011 4:01 PM
Gabtraf

I think they did a few bloody roar games.. I can't remember but I know them for bomberman thats for sure. So they're not affected? What will Konami do with the company now...? I guess time will tell huh?

Posted: February 8, 2011 3:34 PM
crocodilius

the first thing i thought when i read Hudson was the bumblebee ;D

Posted: February 8, 2011 3:19 PM
roehn117

i believe they did the recent bomberman games and i think they made the fuzion frenzy sequel

Posted: February 8, 2011 3:00 PM
Shuklar

Best known for doing the Mario Party series, as well as many (if not all) of the Bomberman games

Posted: February 8, 2011 2:52 PM
JustTheBeginning

Care to tell me who they are? Never heard of them or their work.

Posted: February 8, 2011 2:23 PM