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Steam News · Jan 7, 2013
Bizarre Creations—who made Project Gotham Racing and The Club—met an unfortunate end more than a year ago, after putting out combat-enhanced racer Blur. The Liverpool dev collective were working on another racing game when Activision pulled the plug on the studio. On his personal Tumblr, former art director Chris Davie (now at developer Lucid) shows an early, pre-alpha build from that ...
Steam News · Jan 7, 2013
The closure of Project Gotham Racing and Blur developer Bizarre Creations was a cruel blow for fans of things what drive fast. If that wound has healed now, here, jab at the scar by watching prototype footage of a new engine and new racer Bizarre was working on when Activision shut the studio down, shared by former art director Chris Davie. first video he shared is from a prototype built with tech...
Steam News · Apr 3, 2012
Save 75% off the Blur during this week's Midweek Madness*! Powered Up Racing! Go beyond just racing and enter the world of Blur. Take on the best as you battle through New York to Barcelona, Tokyo, L.A. and beyond in 20 player competitive online play. *Offer ends Thursday at 4pm Pacific.
Steam News · Jul 21, 2011
Bizarre Creations' ambitious racer Blur failed to find an audience because the basic 'cars with weapons' concept scared off gamers, so says former design manager Gareth Wilson. Speaking at the annual Develop conference in Brighton, as reported by Edge, Wilson explained that it is part of a developer's job to "reduce people's fear of buying your product" a job that Bizarre apparently failed to do...
Steam News · Jul 21, 2011
The game industry often forgets how important £40 is to gamers, the developer behind racing game series Project Gotham Racing and Blur has said. Ex-Bizarre Creations design manager Gareth Wilson, who is now chief games designer at Sheffield based Outrun Online Arcade developer Sumo Digital, said at the Develop conference this afternoon that one of the reasons launching new games in the current mar...
Steam News · Jul 15, 2011
Epic Games' European boss Mike Gamble has blamed the recent spate of high-profile triple-A game developer closures on "stupid acquisitions" made by publishers. Gamble highlighted Disney Interactive's purchase of Pure and Split/Second developer Black Rock, which recently closed down, as an example. "It's happened because of stupid acquisitions," he told Eurogamer at Epic Games' recent Unreal Engine...
Steam News · Jun 23, 2011
Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg has said that the demise of UK studio Bizarre Creations was down to changing market conditions rather than any mistakes on the part of the developer. "The thing that Bizarre is best at and what they're known for and what their signature is is in the racing world," Hirshberg told Joystiq. "And the decision had as much to do with our assessment of what was ha...
Steam News · Apr 11, 2011
In a brand new episode of Eurogamer Asks , the three studios formed from Bizarre Creations' ashes have talked to Eurogamer TV about their experience of Activision's controversial cull. While many had braced themselves for a bump, it seems few were prepared for collapse. "It was a shock that it was actual closure - completely," admitted Peter Collier, senior level designer of James Bond game Blood ...
Steam News · Mar 29, 2011
US publishing giant Activision angered many gamers when it closed one of the UK's most respected developers: Bizarre Creations. But for one former Bizarre staff member, it was just "business". Hogrocket, the newly formed micro-studio founded by Peter Collier (senior level designer on Blood Stone/The Club), Stephen Cakebread (creator of Geometry Wars) and Ben Ward (Bizarre community manager), has s...
Steam News · Feb 25, 2011
From the ashes of Liverpool developer Bizarre Creations' closure emerges a new studio: Lucid Games. It's just been formed by some of the brains behind Bizarre, and found a home in familiar territory the north west of England. And they're hiring. The staff already at Lucid are behind games including Geometry Wars, the Project Gotham Racing series, Blur and James Bond 007: Blood Stone. Pete Wallac...