Bizarre Creations may be done with the Project Gotham Racing series, there’s nothing stopping them from creating a brand new racer. Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith has revealed that Bizarre is developing a new racing IP scheduled to be released during Activision’s 2010 fiscal year, which begins April 1, 2009. The revelation was made during a conference call with Griffith stating, “Bizarre is deep in development on two multi-platform titles and we are looking forward to the release of ou
According to a member of NeoGaf, Microsoft, the makers of the Xbox 360, is planning on revealing new games for the Xbox 360 at MS Gamer’s Day. “I was looking for the Banjo assets and I found some interesting folders at MS press site. Unfortunately all of them (except Banjo) are empty.. until Tuesday I think.” You can view pictures from the Microsoft press site by clicking on the link given at the bottom of this post. [Rumor: Possible new games at MS Gamer's Day via N4G]
Bizarre Creations Not Publish more content for Project Gotham Racing 4
Bizarre Creations Not Publish more content for Project Gotham Racing 4 Almost nine months later, Bizarre Creations, a company developer Project Gotham Racing 4, has decided to stop the development of downloadable content for Project Gotham Racing 4 much more than what other studies devoted to their games, which were abandoned shortly after they launched. Read More » 11 May 2008
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.
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 used Microsoft 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 . The future of the Project Gotham Racing franchise is uncertain. They announced that PGR4 will be the last game produced for Microsoft , 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 rumored to be making a racing genre video game based on the James Bond series for Activision.
Games
Bizarre Creations Racing Project (in development) - Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC (TBA)
The Club — Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC (2008)
Geometry Wars: Galaxies - Nintendo DS, Wii (2007)
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)
Formula 1 97 / Formula One: Championship Edition — 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)
