2K Australia is shutting down — it’s Australia’s last triple-A game studio

Australia is losing its last triple-A game studio.

2K Australia — the developer behind last year’s action role-playing game Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel — is shutting its doors. All staff will lose their jobs, according to a company source that spoke to Kotaku. This leaves no triple-A console developer working out of Australia, and it’s part of a bigger trend of major studio closures, including THQ shutting down in early 2013, having auctioned off its assets for $72 million. THQ’s Australian studio had already closed back in 2011.