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Microsoft Tesla Owner Records Sounds For Project Gotham Racing?
9:00AM Owen Good | A Microsoft exec who also owns a Tesla Roadster writes that he provided recordings of his car for both the Forza and Project Gotham Racing teams, which some take as further confirmation of PGR 5. More »
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Bizarre Creations Aims To Bring Fun Back To Racing
10:41PM Brian Crecente | The team behind Project Gotham Racing hopes to “make racing fun again” with Blur, a racer that features photo-realistic cars and the ability to blast competitors out of the way with bursts of energy, Bizarre Creations said today. More »
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Project Gotham Racing Devs Explain Last Days With “Corporate, Cocky” Microsoft
1:30PM Luke Plunkett | Bizarre Creations, the development team behind the renowned Project Gotham Racing series, used to make games for Microsoft. Now, they make games for Activision. Why the split? More »
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Bizarre Can’t Make PGR, But They CAN Use The Kudos System
1:20PM Luke Plunkett | Bizarre may never work on another Project Gotham Racing game again, what with their defection to Activision, but they’re no fools. They knew what made the series tick, and made steps to protect that investment. So while Microsoft own the name Project Gotham Racing, they don’t own the series’ trademark Kudos system. Bizarre’s Sarah Chudley explains: Gotham’s owned by Microsoft. They will be doing with Gotham whatever they want…We still own the Kudos element. We have a joint patent with Microsoft, so that’s something we could use in the future if we wanted to. So smile, PGR fans! Bizarre can still make PGR, they just can’t call it PGR anymore. Savvy! Bizarre Creations boss: “Do we do Gotham 5?” [VG247] More »
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We Can Imagine A World Where Turn 10 Develop PGR5
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | Speaking last week with Kikizo, Microsoft’s Shane Kim has been asked about the future of the Project Gotham Racing series, now that creator Bizarre have up and left. His response should help out any 360 racing fans who are yet to put 2+2 together: …you know, we have a great internal racing studio in Turn 10, the creators of Forza Motorsport. And our goal is to roll the studio so that they can do more creative execution within the racing space. So you can imagine a future where they would develop a new version of Project Gotham Racing. Think by this stage we’ve all stopped imagining it, and are just assuming it’s already happening. Shane Kim Interview [Kikizo] More »
Forza Devs Could Take Over Project Gotham Series
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | Project Gotham Racing 4 is great. Sadly, with Bizarre now no longer able to work on the franchise, somebody’s gotta hop into their shoes, keep the dream alive. But who? Well, Microsoft aren’t short on options. Forza 2 devs Turn 10, well, they’re definitely an option, according to MGS boss Phil Spencer: We don’t have any clear set answer for how PGR5 might come to market yet, but we’re looking at a lot of different alternatives right now. Obviously Turn 10 is a strong team, and they’re really focused on Forza and it’s doing well so I wouldn’t want to distract them, but it is an option. Interesting. Interesting. Could you live without Forza if it meant PGR was still a hoot? We could. It’d be tough, but we’d find a way to soldier on. Game On – Part 1 [Develop] More »
Bizarre Acquisition Phase One In Activision Global Domination
11:00AM Michael McWhertor | The buy out of Project Gotham Racing developer Bizarre Creations by Activision may just be the beginning of the second biggest third party publisher’s plans to add to its collective. Activision Europe boss Joerg Trouvain says that the company isn’t just interested in getting into the racing genre—some 10 percent of the market, they say—they’re targeting growth… and more growth. It just makes sense really. Everyone who’s anyone has a dedicated racing game studio these days—Polyphony Digital, Turn 10, Sega Racing Studio, Evolution, Criterion—so Activision was just filling in holes. Don’t be too surprised to see more and more currently independent studios brought into the corporate fold; not the other way around. Activision: ‘Bizarre buy is just the beginning’ [Develop] More »
Microsoft Responds To Bizarre Acquisition
1:40PM Luke Plunkett | Bizarre signing with Activision is good news for Bizarre: I’m sure they’ll enjoy developing games for multiple platforms, and I know they’ll enjoy the fat pay cheque the purchase would have netted them. But what do Microsoft think of the whole thing? They own the Project Gotham Racing franchise, so Bizarre jumping ship leaves big question marks over the future of the series. Microsoft have issued a short statement, which reads: Project Gotham Racing is a signature racing franchise for Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE and we plan to continue the series but we have nothing further to announce. Nice and simple. They plan to continue the series. Only thing left unclear for now is what happens to the “improvements” Bizarre were making for PGR5, who Microsoft drag in to take over the series and whether they leave things be or try and move PGR in a different direction. Which…well, now you look at it that’s a whole lot of things left unclear. What’s Next for Project Gotham Racing? [1UP] More »
