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Why Robin Makes Batman Better Activision has entered the racing game… game in a big way, by purchasing the developers of one of the greatest racing series around, Project Gotham Racing. That’s right, Activision has purchased Bizarre Creations, creators of PGR as well as Geometry Wars. The Bizarre team will continue working on current projects while beginning development on two new “AAA” titles, with the first expected sometime after fiscal year 2009. Martyn Chudley, Managing Director of Bizarre Creations, said, “Our goal at Bizarre Creations has always been to do all we can to nurture our creative and passionate teams, who excel at and enjoy what they do. Activision’s independent studio model will continue giving us creative freedom to build exciting new brands.”
What this basically means is Microsoft can stop hogging all the racing goodness and let some of the other consoles take a spin. It won’t be PGR of course, but whatever it ends up being should be awesome. Bring back Metropolis Street Racer!
Next best thing about a new PGR game after the driving? The Geometry Wars. Here’s a clip for Geometry Wars Waves, PGR4′s accompanying diversion, and it’s looking…well, everything appears to be in order. As you can see, the enemies approach in waves.
Don Daglow of Stormfront Studios spoke at today’s GC Developers Conference on the subject of an oft-abused descriptor, rhetorically asking the question “What is next-gen?” Daglow’s definition may differ from the conventional explanation, which is, essentially, the next iteration in a hardware cycle. The founder of Stormfront, whose resume spans at career at Intellivision as game director and one of the original producers at EA, tackled the definition in a number of divergent ways, declaring the hardcore contentious GameCube Turbo (aka Wii) a next-gen gaming system.
While the name may not be immediately familiar, Daglow and Stormfront have developed a number of higher profile games and well-known licensed titles—games like The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the original Neverwinter Nights, Madden NFL and NASCAR titles.
Geometry Wars pretty much defined XBLA as a viable platform. So where are all the sequels? From Ben Ward of Bizzare: We’re playing our Geometry Wars cards close to our chest right now. As you know, we’ve just announced Geometry Wars Galaxies for the Nintendo platforms, GW: Mobile for mobile phones, and we’ve recently released the game onto Steam too….So there’s a lot going on but that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten about the Xbox 360…
And then he should have added:
