Blitz Games Studios' The Typing of the Dead: Overkill, a shooter/typing instructor hybrid, almost wasn't released due to the studio's financial woes, former Blitz project manager Ollie Clark told Giant Bomb.
In June, Blitz began turning Sega's House of the Dead: Overkill into a typing game, releasing it within six months along with multiplayer content. However, the game almost didn't see its Halloween release because of Blitz' troubles. According to Clark, he found out that the studio was going into liquidation on Sept. 12.
"I went and spoke with a colleague of mine, Tom Weston, who was the company manager of business affairs at the time," Clark told Giant Bomb, "and just spoke to him and said ‘What are the chances of getting this...
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