Midway

The owners and debtors of Midway have agreed on a $30 million target sales price for the troubled publisher.

According to Variety, the figure was outlined in the final version of the company’s "key employee incentive plan," which was approved ten days ago at a bankruptcy court hearing.

Midway has confirmed that Blacksite: Area 51 creative director Harvey Smith has left the company shortly following a blunt critique on the poorly reviewed game.

Smith, whose past work includes the highly revered Deus Ex, made no secret about the tumultuous development of Blacksite: Area 51 when he said at the Montreal International Games Summit, "This project was so fucked up."

Blacksite: Area 51 creative director Harvey Smith has described the game’s development process as "so f***ed up" in a frank post-mortem.

 

Speaking at the Montreal International Game Summit 2007, Smith admitted to numerous problems during Blacksite’s development, reports Wired.