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News by Games Industry.biz

3 December, 2007

Midway has confirmed the departure of Harvey Smith, the creative director of BlackSite: Area 51, who recently criticised the project before it had even been released in Europe, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

At the Montreal International Games Summit in Quebec, Smith referred to the project as "...so f***ed up."

Midway said only that Smith's departure was by mutual decision, and did not comment further. It is unclear whether the mutual decision was made before the lead designer's recent comments.

When asked why he was so forthcoming about his feelings on BlackSite development, Smith said only that he believed in "personal accountability".

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LHH
03/12/07 @ 07:46
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Wouldn't it be fun if EA's employees (or any big developers employees) believed in "personal accountability" as much as this chap.
peppergomez
03/12/07 @ 08:03
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harvey smith is a total loser- he's the one who ruined dues ex: invisible war, and now he's turned out another turkey. he should take responsibility for his own failings first.
DanWhitehead
03/12/07 @ 08:03
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Bad Boys was on TV last night, wasn't it?
DUFFKING
03/12/07 @ 08:08
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'Deusex2wasabitofadissapointmentandbythesestandardsitisobvio
uslytheworstgameevermadebymanlol'
Lexx87
03/12/07 @ 09:00
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Who writes the little Gamesindustry.biz things at the bottom of the pages? Do you have someone just sitting there making them up all day; locked in a cold room...never allowed out.
space ace
03/12/07 @ 09:12
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someone should make a film about recent games industry developments... i see the title is already suggested above :)
MaxiSleep
03/12/07 @ 12:44
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I would go with ruined. Could not be bothered playing it through. Real design by numbers, horrible cramped environments and zero atmos. Such a shame after the GODLY first one.
thepiedpiper
03/12/07 @ 12:49
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Well the phrase shooting oneself in the foot springs to mind. Honourable, yet somewhat foolish.
pjmaybe
03/12/07 @ 12:57
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Well wherever he ends up next, I hope they "tear" him a new one.

See what I did there?

Peej
BBIAJ
03/12/07 @ 14:12
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He's ended up at Eidos, working on Deus Ex 3...
mkreku
03/12/07 @ 15:19
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Does that mean Deus Ex 3 will have unified ammo too? :|
BBIAJ
03/12/07 @ 15:31
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Dunno if it's true or not, that's what the conspiracy theorists are saying though, that it was a deliberate move on his art so that he would be fired and free to move on.
Nithron
03/12/07 @ 18:18
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It'd make slightly more sense if he was actually *about* to quit, and so decided he could say whatever he wanted.
justin_saunders
04/12/07 @ 02:06
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Haha.

Is a mutual decision when the boss yells:
"You're fired, jerk!"
and you yell back:
"You can't fire me because I quit!"

What a douchebag, maybe he'll now learn how to manage his way out of a paper bag.

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04/12/07 @ 13:46
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Well at least there are some people in this industry who want to do the best they can and are passionate about it. He's pissed of for being rushed and so quits, good on him I say.

(course he might just lying, but I'm a trusting sort of guy)

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