- Phoenix Games
Phoenix Games Group is a European
video game publisher and developer, specializing in budget-priced games. Phoenix also serves as a third-party publisher in Europe for games developed by non-European companies. The Phoenix Games home office is located in theUnited Kingdom , and their development office is located in theNetherlands . As of February 2008, Phoenix has published games for the PC,PlayStation ,PlayStation 2 , andPlayStation Portable , and has announced plans on its website to publish games for theNintendo DS [ [http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/uk/ds.html : Phoenix Games - The Only European Super Budget Publisher - PS2 - PSP - DS - Wii - PC : ] ] andWii . [ [http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/uk/wii.html : Phoenix Games - The Only European Super Budget Publisher - PS2 - PSP - DS - Wii - PC : ] ]Phoenix targets a broad European audience with its games, and has published games in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Most games published by Phoenix fall into genres that typically sell well to a mainstream, casual audience, such as sports, racing, and simulation. Many Phoenix games feature
animation ,jigsaw puzzle s, and similar content. Most of these Phoenix-developed children's games use traditionalcel animation , even in cases where the box art features polygonal 3D figures.Many of the games published by Phoenix are based on stories, myths, or characters that have fallen into the
public domain , such asPeter Pan andKing Arthur . A number of the children's games developed by Phoenix have names that may be intended to evoke the names ofanimated film s fromThe Walt Disney Company , such as "The Lion King " (Phoenix's "Son of the Lion King" and "Lion and the King 3"), "Mulan " (Phoenix's "Mighty Mulan"), and "One Hundred and One Dalmatians " (Phoenix's "Dalmatians 3", prominently featuring aCruella de Vil -like figure on the box art). [http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/uk/games/dalmatians3.html]References
External links
* [http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com Phoenix Games' official website]
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