Hudson Ceases to Exist on March 1

The makers of Bomberman, Bonk, Cobra Space Adventure, Lords of Thunder and Dungeon Explorer will cease to exist on March 1st, 2012.

http://andriasang.com/comzo7/hudson_kaput/

But!... There goes another piece childhood, riding off into the sunset never to be heard from again... :(

Mega Man's basically dead seemingly, Bomberman's dead...

GEE WIZ GAMING GOD! WHY DONCHA TAKE AWAY EVERY GAMING FRANCHISE I GREW UP WITH, HUH?[/emo]

Damn mergers remove all the individuality a company had...
Originality dies just like that.

This is different from a merger. Konami actually owns all of the shares. It bought-off Hudson and kept the Hudson brand name for it's respective franchises for a while. Now all Konami is doing is killing-off the Hudson brand name, taking over Hudson's franchises and re-branding them with the Konami name. I don't think any of said franchises will die-off. We might even be able to see more of the ones that did die-out from before the purchase.

I'm not sure Hudson even employed the talent they had in the 80s and 90s by the time they were acquired. The XBLA Bomberman game isn't bad though.