Crikey, back so soon. I bet the market can't wait to throw it's arms open and welcome back these IPs for the dead. A question for the new regime - have you taken care of paying the ex staff the wages owed to them? or is this 'nothing to do with the old Empire business' and in the convenient pot of 'inconvenient truth'

Wonder how long before the company went into administration that Vip started trying to get a job with Zoo?

By the way, Full Circle (former secured creditor of Silverstar/Empire) at least partly owns New World. When Empire went under, Barclays had their overdraft paid, Full Circle got the IP, Vip got a job, and the majority of staff are still looking for work.

(Three other ex-Empire staff are working for Vip -they must be desperate. Good luck to them.)

we got paid nothing by empire. we got screwed over good and proper :)

Shame on you Mr. Patel - shame on your mao suit!

now we need the "mates" in retail of the ex-Empire staff to show they have a some proper British resolve, to leave the tarnished products well alone. this isn't "just business", and anyone who says so is shallow and naive

"We are all in the same boat" said Vip after a month of us not getting paid "but if you don't like it you can leave."

This was a guy on something like £150k lining up a job with Zoo, telling nearly 50 people on £15k to £50k he's suffering as much as them, and if they could f*** off if they didn't like not being paid (if they did they wouldn't be entitled to benefits or redundancy). Lovely bloke, heart of gold.

Also the circumstances had nothing to do with him, despite him being the head of Empire under Clive...

Also how many Empire creditors will be willing to work with him after being strung along so much? Get your money up front!

Retail missed out on these Empire titles. Now we’ve got them, and we can all hopefully make money from them.”

Well Vip, why dont you say you, Clive, Full Circle and Zoo stole from Empire. It was stealing beacause the staff and many of the suppliers did not get paid

This is what Clive told the staff on April 2:

In the interim, I believe it is in every one's interest to have a staff
presence in the office in order to facilitate what business there is, but
more importantly to keep things together for a few more weeks to perhaps get
a deal done to save the company.

I do not know what legal rights employees have under UK law in our current
circumstances, but from a practical sense, it seems to me that as long as
this is not too onerous financially, having staff on site will help our
cause immensely. Without staff it is difficult to structure any
deal to save the company. Any deal would of course have
to take into account what is owed for March salaries and presumably for
work done in April as well.

So it is my hope that many of the staff will be prepared to go the "extra
mile" (again) to give us another few weeks of breathing room to structure
something to every one's benefit.

Yes Vip we went the extra mile for the company, the only extra miles Clive went to was to pick up Animal Paradise and Hello Kitty from Asia the week before the company went into administration with KPMG. A man who ran a UK company but pretended not to know UK employment rights but certainly knew how to give rid of them when it suited him and dont forget Vip you were his representative in the UK.

I trust the industry are very wary of dealing with people such as this, people who lied to their staff and supliers to get the so that they could get the best deal for themselves

I'm disgusted by what happened and the nonchalant attitude of Empire senior staff that were much better paid than people in other departments who all worked on Animal Paradise (DS), Hello Kitty: Big City Dreams (DS), Off Road (Wii) and Pipe Mania (Wii). Who came in every day of the week and did their hours and then some extra when needed. Unlike senior members of staff who seemed to only come in three days a week or work from home whenever it suited them. The dreadful situation was clear to the most senior staff back in 2008 and the reluctance to share information which was also evident as what can only be called mis information, lies and stalling tactics from the likes of Vip and Clive is utterly despicable.

And if senior staff give the "we are in the same boat as you" then that is bollox! As I mentioned above the dreadful situations that were known to investors and everyone involved and the pay gap in the senior managements wages makes that a very offensive comment and only proves the idiots we were (are) all being taken for!

After reading the telephone transcript cached on-line it was clear Clive was screwing everyone involved financially and the holding back on releasing titles was just to look good to investors for a quarter! Weighing all Empire's IP verses a loan was clever! why didn’t Vip take a pay cut or a freeze and Clive put his house, boat and car and children’s education verse the loan, rather than sell out a British’s publishers 20+ years of IP at the expense of all its staff????. I wouldn’t have even lent the guy a tenner after reading that bullcrap and am in no way surprised investors pulled out when he asked to split stocks. If the senior staff can honestly say they had no idea of what was occurring and had no further information to give its staff at the time then they were clearly incompetent and should never have worked those roles and paid themselves 50-150k a year they felt they had earned out of a bloody OVERDRAFT for Christ sake!!!!!

What are they going to do this time? Pay themselves out of a fake charity and get financial advice from Bernie Madoff?

Would you buy a 2nd hand car from these people let alone any game product ?

Honest Guv I've a nice bunch of Animal Paradise and Hello Kitty in the back of my boot!

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