Krome Studios is one of Australia's biggest independent development studios but has been hit hard by the economic downturn in recent years. Yesterday it closed down its Adelaide office, which is had opened in 2006 to house most of the Ratbag Games employees that were sent packing when Midway closed it down. That same year Krome also acquired Atari development studio Melbourne House which has now been hit by massive layoffs, a similar fate reported at its main Brisbane studio