Bizarre Creations
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| Type | Subsidiary of Activision |
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| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Industry | Video games |
| Owner(s) | Activision Blizzard |
| Employees | 165 |
| Parent | Activision |
| Website | Bizzarre Creations Homepage |
Bizarre Creations is a video game developer based in the city of Liverpool in the United Kingdom, which was founded in 1994. The company is known for specialising in racing-genre videogame titles such as the Dreamcast's Metropolis Street Racer and the followup Project Gotham Racing series released for the Xbox and Xbox 360. The company has also developed a number of other exclusive and multi-platform titles, including the popular arcade-styled Geometry Wars series, as well as the third-person shooting games Fur Fighters and The Club. Following its acquisition by Activision in 2007, Bizarre Creations is working on a new racing videogame called Blur.
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[edit] History
Bizarre Creations evolved from Raising Hell Software, a developer of video games founded in 1988 by Martyn Chudley. Sega pressured them over the use of "Hell" in the name so the company went nameless for a short time. In 1994 a submission to Psygnosis/Sony forced the need for a new name. The founder initially put "Weird Concepts" on the submission documententation. Later a staff member used Microsoft Word's thesaurus on the name and "Bizarre Creations" was the suggestion that stuck.
The Bizarre Creations team started off with five people working on a concept project called 'Slaughter'. After seeing the demo, Psygnosis signed on the developer to develop Formula 1 for the PlayStation. Formula 1 became the best selling game in Europe in 1996.
In 2006, the studio announced a departure from their usual racing genre. The Club is a third-person shooter, released on February 7, 2008.
On September 26, 2007, Activision acquired Bizarre Creations[1]. It announced that Project Gotham Racing 4 would be their last game produced for Microsoft Game Studios[2], who own the rights to the Project Gotham Racing brand, so any future releases to the series will not be Bizarre Creations-developed.
Activision has announced that Bizarre Creations is developing a James Bond based 'driving - racing' game. The game will likely be released sometime in 2010.
[edit] Games
- Blur (in development) - Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC (2010)
- Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 — Xbox Live Arcade (2008)
- The Club — Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC (2008)
- Geometry Wars: Galaxies - Nintendo DS, Wii (2007)
- Project Gotham Racing 4 - Xbox 360 (2007)
- Boom Boom Rocket — Xbox Live Arcade (2007)
- Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved — Xbox Live Arcade (2005), Windows Vista (2007), Windows XP (via Steam) (2007)
- Project Gotham Racing 3 — Xbox 360 (2005)
- Project Gotham Racing 2 — Xbox (2003)
- Treasure Planet — PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance (2002)
- Project Gotham Racing — Xbox (2001)
- Fur Fighters: Viggo's Revenge — PlayStation 2 (2001)
- Metropolis Street Racer — Dreamcast (2001)
- Fur Fighters — Dreamcast, PC (2000)
- Formula 1 97 / Formula One: Championship Edition — PlayStation, PC (1997)
- Formula One — PlayStation, PC (1996)
- Wiz 'n' Liz — Sega Genesis, Amiga (1993)
- The Killing Game Show/Fatal Rewind — Sega Genesis (1991), Amiga (1990), Atari ST (1990)
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