
Call me soft, but I'm still sad about the sudden, undignified death of Volition, the 30-year-old Saints Row studio that got executed by the Embracer Group after the latter's $2-billion mystery deal—pitched as a "groundbreaking strategic partnership"—collapsed at the last minute.
With Embracer scrambling to stay afloat and Volition's final game, a rebooted Saints Row, meeting a lukewarm critical and commercial response, the writing was on the wall for the developer that also made Red Faction and Descent back in the day.