Bizarre Creations
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Bizarre Creations is a Liverpool-based video game developer beginning development under this name in 1994. The company is most nown 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 MS 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 (working title) is a third person shooter, announced on May 6, 2006.
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- The Killing Game Show — Sega Genesis (1991), Amiga (1990), Atari ST (1990)
- Wiz 'n' Liz — Sega Genesis, Amiga
- Formula One — PlayStation (1997)
- Formula One: Championship Edition — PlayStation (1998)
- Fur Fighters — Dreamcast, PC (2000)
- Metropolis Street Racer — Dreamcast (2001)
- Fur Fighters: Viggo's Revenge — PlayStation 2 (2001)
- Project Gotham Racing — Xbox (2001)
- Treasure Planet — PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance (2002)
- Project Gotham Racing 2 — Xbox (2003)
- Project Gotham Racing 3 — Xbox 360 (2005)
- Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved — Xbox Live Arcade (2005)
- The Club (Working title) — Xbox 360, Playstation 3
- Project Gotham Racing 4 - Xbox 360 (TBA Late 2007/2008)
