The Future Of PAIN Is Currently Unclear.

Apparently, the original team of 46 has been scaled back right down to just 20 employees. Kotaku reports that the lay-offs may be because of budget cuts from Idol Minds' long time publisher partners, Sony.

To be fair, we've seen nothing major come out of Idol Minds since 2007, other than countless PAIN DLC packs. While we're sure the DLC sold well for a period, we can't imagine PAIN having the same draw now as it did back in 2007.