Long Beach, Detroit Locations Also Shut
Updating a story we brought you in March: The president and COO of Sega Entertainment USA confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that seven of the fifteen GameWorks locations shut their doors as of the end of last month.
The Long Beach, California and Auburn Hills, Michigan locations now join previous reports of shutdowns in Tampa, Miami, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, and Columbus.
Sega Entertainment head Cory Haynes pointed to the still struggling economy at the heart of the decision:
This challenging economic environment has forced us to make these tough financial decisions. The changes were necessary for us to move into the future as a robust, exciting, and viable entertainment company.
GameWorks locations in Las Vegas, Dallas, Ft. Lauderdale, Cincinatti and Seattle remain open, as do arcades in Tempe, AZ, Schaumburg, IL, and Ontario, CA. No international locations appear impacted by the domestic restructuring.
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Yeah, I go to the one in AZ. That place is the shit, I can’t see it closing anytime soon with all the people I see there. But ya never know.
I only go to the Ft. Lauderdale one. But I never got the chance to go to the one in Miami …
No one goes to them as much anymore, they need to be more innovative in the games department to draw people in.
what the hell, the one in auburn hills still got good business -_-
The one in Auburn Hills DID get good business, despite the way it was set up. We had a couple of birthday parties there and attended a few others that were really great. The problem I had was that when you walk in, the main thing you see from the front is the bar. And a cloud of smoke hanging over (which would have been taken care of with the newly enacted no smoking law). For a venue that was advertised as a gaming place for the whole family, you would have thought they would have set this up in a better layout. There was limited seating that was not in the “bar area” and you had to go around the center to get to it. They failed to maintain some of the more popular machines, but the kids still loved it. Compare it to Dave and Busters, there are two central areas – one gaming, one eating. It’s a better set up and easier to keep an eye on the kids.
Dallas location closed as of July 2nd 2010