Jobs lost at Rare  MGS studio axes artists and engineers  Viva
Piñata studio Rare has dismissed several employees from its art
and engineering teams.  GI have reported approximately 12 jobs
have been removed and the firm is now asking employees to
reapply for different positions at the company.  Following
reports of the restructuring at Rare on Tuesday, studio manager
Mark Betteridge commented: "As the entire industry struggles to
address the increasing scale and cost of development, we too
have felt a need to restructure our current approach so we can
speed development and better manage the scale required to create
high quality games,"  Despite the job losses, Rare continue to
develop a number of projects for Microsoft Game Studios.