Found an article on Blues talking about the recent trouble Big Huge Games has been going through. THQ acquired BHG about a year ago, and now they're looking to sell or shut the studio down. BHG is mostly known for it's Rise of Nations games, but it also recently did the Settlers of Catan conversion. called Catan, for XBLA.
This is mostly a "how the mighty have fallen" type post. I visited the BHG studio several years ago for an IGDA meeting and found the place to be really nice. Everyone had an office and there were real wood accents everywhere. There were Razor scooters all over the place and a really nice common area where folks could play console games. It was a really nice set up. So, it's sad to see a formerly successful studio fall on hard times, but it seems to be more and more common these days. Good luck guys!
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