Firebrand Games

Firebrand Games, LLC

Type	Video game developer
Industry	Computer and video games Interactive entertainment
Headquarters	Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Key people	Mark Greenshields Bryan McPhail Sumner McCarty Christian Erskine
Products	Racing games
Website	http://firebrandgames.com/

Firebrand Games is a video game development company with studios in Glasgow, Scotland, Florida, USA, and Baton Rouge, USA. The team specialises in the production of racing games. Firebrand Games was founded and is run by Mark Greenshields who has been in the games industry his entire career. The company is currently working on titles for the Nintendo DS and Wii.

The BBC website and that of video game development trade publication Develop reported on 15 September 2009 that the firm had relocated its Scottish studio to a new address in Hope Street, Glasgow, now stated as the company's worldwide headquarters.

Games developed

Released

• Cartoon Network Racing (2006) for Nintendo DS
• Race Driver: Create and Race (2007) for Nintendo DS
• Ferrari Challenge (2008) for Nintendo DS
• Race Driver: GRID (2008) for Nintendo DS
• TrackMania DS (2008) for Nintendo DS
• Need for Speed: Undercover (2008) for Nintendo DS
• DiRT 2 (2009) for Nintendo DS
• Planet 51 (2009) for Nintendo DS
• Need for Speed: Nitro (2009) for Nintendo DS
• Trackmania Wii (2010) for Wii
• Cars 2 (2011) for Nintendo DS
• Need for Speed: The Run (2011) for Wii and Nintendo 3DS

In development

Firebrand are currently working on 6 unannounced projects, two of which are for the Wii. The following projects have been confirmed by Firebrand via their official website...

Octane Engine

The Octane Engine is Firebrand's engine used in their games. They are currently implementing a version of the engine for the Wii.^[1]

References

1. ^ Firebrand Games. Specialist Driving Games Development

• Develop Mag Online

External links

• Official website
• Interview