- Swingin' Ape Studios
Swingin' Ape Studios is a video game development studio founded in July 2000 by
Steve Ranck ,Mike Starich andScott Goffman after leaving Midway Home Entertainment. They had just completed the successful water-based arcade racer,Hydro Thunder .Swingin' Ape Studios specialized in multiplatform game development. In 2003, the company released ' for the
GameCube ,Xbox , andPlayStation 2 and it was published byVivendi Universal andSierra Entertainment . This was the only game they would release under the Swingin' Ape name. The company was acquired byBlizzard Entertainment in May 2005, during development of ' which was put on indefinite hold following the purchase.External links
* [http://www.gamestats.com/objects/567/567323.html GameStats]
* [http://games.ign.com/objects/567/567323.html IGN]
* [http://www.blizzard.com/press/acquisition.shtml Blizzard Press Release]
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