Namco Bandai sacks original Splatterhouse devs

10.02.2009
Recent news indicates that Namco Bandai has pulled the plug on BottleRocket, the development studio contracted to work on . All assets and developer kits were removed last Friday as confirmed by . Instead, Namco plans on completing the game with its internal game label--most likely Surge, the creative group behind .

BottleRocket had worked with the Afro Samurai team earlier in the development process, but claims that their contributions to the workload was less than helpful. In addition to missing deadlines, Namco Bandai states that the work submitted for the game by the BottleRocket team did not meet its standards. The company has roughly three months before it clears out their offices in California.