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Bizarre Creations
Bizarre Creations
Bizarre Creations
History
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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 submisVideo game developer sion documententation. Later a staff member used Microsoft Word’s thesaurus on the 1994 name and "Bizarre Creations" was the sugLiverpool, United Kingdom gestion that stuck. The Bizarre Creations team started off Video games with five people working on a concept project Vivendi called ’Slaughter’. After seeing the demo, 165 Psygnosis signed on the developer to develop Formula 1 for the PlayStation. Formula 1 beActivision Blizzard came the best selling game in Europe in http://www.bizarrecreations.com/ 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]. They announced that PGR4 will 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 possibly rumored to be like the GTA series. Further details are to be announced but a trailer could be coming sometime after Christmas in spring 2009.
A screenshot taken from Metropolis Street Racer on the Sega Dreamcast showing the Bizarre Creations logo used during the year 2000-2001. Bizarre Creations is a Liverpool-based video game developer beginning development under this name in 1994. The company is most known for the Dreamcast videogame Metropolis Street Racer and their Xbox console game series Project Gotham Racing.
Games
• Blur (in development) - Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC (2009) • Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 — Xbox Live Arcade (2008) • The Club — Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC (2008) • Geometry Wars: Galaxies - Nintendo DS, Wii (2007)
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• 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)
Bizarre Creations
• Formula 1 97 / Formula One: Championship Edition — PlayStation (1997) • Formula One — PlayStation (1996) • Wiz ’n’ Liz — Sega Genesis, Amiga (1993) • The Killing Game Show/Fatal Rewind — Sega Genesis (1991), Amiga (1990), Atari ST (1990)
References
[1] Studio News - Bizarre Creations [2] Activision buys Bizarre - News www.developmag.com
External links
• Bizarre Creations official website
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