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Last week, industry giant Konami announced that it would undergo a kind of corporate restructuring, consolidating some of its internal departments and reorganizing its staff to optimize its production division in response to a rapidly changing market. What it didn’t do, however, was “close its game division”.
This was the word that spread quickly across the internet yesterday, appearing on all social networks, despite the actual announcement being made on January 15th. In response to this rapidly spreading rumor, the longtime developer hastily sent an official statement to IGN, confirming that, for the most part, it continues business as usual at chez Konami.
“The announcement made refers to an internal restructuring, with the Production Divisions being consolidated,” says the statement. “We don’t ‘close’ our video game division.”
Essentially, these changes simply relocate several top executives to new roles, while officially dissolving and then restructuring several production divisions into larger, unique departments. All employees in each dissolved division must assume roles in the new teams. Konami’s restructuring took effect on February 1, 2021.
So, don’t worry, Konami is still out there to not make a new one Silent Hill.
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