i get the feeling that this game will disappear from steam in the future coz of the studio's fate.

38 Studios' loss is Epic Games' gain, as the developer has acquired the recently canned employees of Big Huge Games. The employees will open a new office in Baltimore, MD.

According to president Mike Capps, the employees had contacted Epic about opening a new studio.

"It'll take a while to find space, set up desks and PCs, purchase sufficient Nerf weaponry and Dr. Pepper, etc," Capp acknowledged in his blog, "But some of these folks have been going too long without a paycheck to wait for that. So, as soon as we can, we're going to try to get people working down here at Epic headquarters in Cary, NC as contractors."

Capps went on to say, "There's a million things to work out. How many of the team can we hire? What will it be called? What will they be working on? We don't know all the answers yet. Please give us some time to figure it out; we hope to have more to share soon."

"The way we see it," he concluded, "there's been a big storm in Baltimore, and we're taking in a few of the refugees - as are the awesome folks at Zynga East, Zenimax Online, and other southeastern studios. Epic's in a situation where we can do this, and it very clearly fits with our company values, so we're going to give it a whirl."

38 Studios and Big Huge Games suffered 100% layoffs last week.

Good to hear got pickup by epic company but hopefully not only do games for console....

Even though Epic Games acquired the recently fired devs from Big Huge Games, the developer won't be purchasing the Kingdoms of Amalur license from the state of Rhode Island to make a sequel.

Mark Rein refuted the idea, stating flatly, "We don’t buy IP, we make IP.”

Rein also revealed that Epic president Mike Capps was responsible for snatching up the former Big Huge Games personnel. “Mike is the total hero there," he related, "They called him on Wednesday, interested in using one of our IPs. He flew them up the next day and they met with a whole bunch of people, and the board of directors of Epic. We made the call right there: ‘These guys are awesome, we need to work with them.'"

This all was the result of both 38 Studios and Big Huge Games suffering 100% job loss back on the 25th May.