Cheebee said: There's a summary out there somewhere listing all development companies that went under this past generation. I don't remember the details, but I was shocked by the sheer amount of devs that bit the dust. This gen's going to be far worse, I should think. I predict dozens upon dozens of devs going bankrupt. |
Here's some devs and publishers that died since late 2006, and some of the things they are known for.
*38 Studios - Kingdoms of Amalur
*Big Huge Games - Rise of Nations
*Bizzare Creations - Project Gotham Racing
*Black Rock - Various Racers
*Blue Fang - Zoo Tycoon
*Cavia - Resident Evil on-rails shooters for Wii
*Cing - Little King's Story
*Eidos - Tomb Raider, Hitman, Deus Ex
*Ensemble - Age of Empires
*Eurocom - Dead Space: Extraction, 007 games
*feelplus - Parts of JRPG's like Lost Odyssey and Star Ocean: The Last Hope, Mindjack
*Flagship - Hellgate
*GSC Game World - STALKER series
*LucasArts - Star Wars and Adventure games
*Midway - Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam
*Pandemic - Star Wars Battlefront, Mercenaries
*Phenomic - BattleForge
*Pi - Rock Band ports, Call of Duty assisstance
*Pivotal - Conflict series
*Radical - Prototype, latter Crash games
*THQ - Saint's Row, Darksiders, Homefront, Warhammer, etc.
*Realtime - Crackdown
*Sony Liverpool - Wipeout series
*Team Bondi - LA Noire
*Transmission - Heroes over
*Zipper - SOCOM series
But of course, the rise of Rovio and Angry Birds cancels all of this out. Never forget it!