- Bizarre Creations
Infobox_Company
company_name = Bizarre Creations
company_
company_type =Video game developer
company_slogan =
foundation = 1994
location =Liverpool ,United Kingdom
key_people =
num_employees = 165
industry = Video games
revenue =
homepage = http://www.bizarrecreations.com/
products =
owner =Vivendi
parent =Activision Blizzard Bizarre Creations is a
Liverpool -basedvideo game developer beginning development under this name in 1994. The company is most known for the Dreamcast videogame "Metropolis Street Racer " and theirXbox console game series "Project Gotham Racing".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 usedMicrosoft 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 [ [http://www.bizarrecreations.com/article.php?article_id=5277#pressrelease Studio News - Bizarre Creations] ] . They announced that "PGR4 " will be their last game produced forMicrosoft Game Studios [ [http://www.developmag.com/news/28531/Activision-acquires-Bizarre-Creations Activision buys Bizarre - News - www.developmag.com] ] , who own the rights to the "Project Gotham Racing" brand, so any future releases to the series will not be Bizarre Creations-developed.Bizarre Creations is also rumoured to be making a racing genre video game based on the
James Bond series forActivision . [ [http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php?itemid=5662 MI6 News :: James Bond racing game may be in development by Activision studio Bizarre Creations] ]Games
*"Bizarre Creations Racing Project" (in development) -
Xbox 360 ,Playstation 3 , PC (TBA)
*"" —Xbox Live Arcade (2008)
*"The Club" —Xbox 360 ,PlayStation 3 , PC (2008)
*"" -Nintendo DS ,Wii (2007)
*"Project Gotham Racing 4 " -Xbox 360 (2007)
*"Boom Boom Rocket " —Xbox Live Arcade (2007)
*"" —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)
*"" —PlayStation 2 (2001)
*"Metropolis Street Racer " —Dreamcast (2001)
*"Fur Fighters " —Dreamcast , PC (2000)
*"" — PlayStation (1997)
*"Formula One" —PlayStation (1996)
*"Wiz 'n' Liz " —Sega Genesis ,Amiga
*"The Killing Game Show "/"Fatal Rewind" —Sega Genesis (1991),Amiga (1990),Atari ST (1990)References
External links
* [http://www.bizarrecreations.com/ Bizarre Creations official website]
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