Saints Row & Red Faction developers Volition has been shut down after 30 years

The gaming industry took another hit today with Volition announcing it is shutting down, effective immediately.

In the official update Via LinkedIn, the American developer – with 30 years of experience – said that this closure was part of Embracer Group’s “restructuring programme”. In order to “maintain its position as an industry leader,” Embracer had to make this “difficult decision.”

“As part of this program, they evaluated strategic and operational objectives and made the difficult decision to close Volition effective immediately.”

As part of this, Embracer Group supports the team at Volition with job assistance and helping them transition smoothly. In the last sentence of the update, Volition thanked customers and fans for their support over the past 30 years.

Although Volition’s latest Saints Row Reboot never made it to Switch, some of its older titles in the same series did. This includes Saints Row: The Third and Saints Row IV, and there was a remaster of its old game Red Faction: Guerrilla. Volition started out in 1993 under the name Parallax Software and was known in its early years as a first-person spaceship shooter. coming down.