Blitz Games

Located in the town of Leamington Spa in England, Blitz Games is an independent computer and video game developer. It was established in 1990 by the Oliver Twins, best known for creating the Dizzy series for Codemasters in the mid 1980s. Blitz was originally known as 'Interactive Studios'. It specializes in producing mass-market family games on all console formats using their own middleware.

Most recently, Blitz Games has found success within advergames developing the nearly 4 million-selling Xbox and Xbox 360 games Sneak King, Pocketbike Racer and Big Bumpin' for fast food purveyor Burger King (The best selling game of the 2006 Christmas season , though they sold for a fraction of the cost of a full-priced game).

Divisions

Other divisions include Volatile Games, TruSim, and Blitz Arcade.

Volatile Games

• Creates mature games. Video games created by this division include Reservoir Dogs, runner up in the 2006 BAFTA awards for best sound track Link. Despite allowing the player to complete the game without firing a single shot, the game was considered so realistic in its depictions of violence that it was banned in Australia Link.

TruSim

• Creates serious games. It is best know for its work on medical related training programs including the award-winning Interactive Trauma TrainerLink.

Blitz Arcade

• Creates downloadable games. They are best known for the creation of the Burger King Advergames 'King Games' (Includes Pocketbike Racer, Sneak King, and Big Bumpin').

• Blitz Arcade is further believed to be developing downloadable games and content for Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation 3 (titles so far unknown)Link.

the Virtual Experience Company

• Acquired by Blitz Games in early 2006. Recent projects include the Tintern Abbey virtual tour.

Games

• Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore (2008)
• Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol (2007)
• Sneak King (2006)
• PocketBike Racer (2006)
• Big Bumpin' (2006)
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab (2006)
• Bratz: Forever Diamondz (2006)
• Bratz: Rock Angelz (2005)
• Pac-Man World 3 (2005)
• The Fairly OddParents: Shadow Showdown (2004)
• Bad Boys: Miami Takedown (2004)
• The Fairly OddParents: Breakin' Da Rules (2003)
• Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue (2003)
• Taz: Wanted (2002)
• Zapper (2002)
• Fusion Frenzy (2001)
• WarGames (1998)

Awards

2007

• Blitz Games wins Develop Industry Excellence Award for Business Development
• Cannes Titanium Grand Prix Award for the Burger King games
• Golden Clio Award for Burger King games

2006

• Blitz Games CEO Philip Oliver named Best Industry Player by Tiga
• Warwickshire Employer of Choice Awards 2006 for creating an exceptional working environment .

External links

Blitz Games Website

Divisions

• Volatile Games
• TruSim
• Blitz Arcade
• The Virtual Experience Company

Other

• Blitz Games entry at MobyGames
• www.olivertwins.com - a website about the company's founders.