Grid Wars

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Grid Wars is a computer game clone of Bizarre Creations' Geometry Wars developed by Mark Incitti. The first version of the game was released on December 21, 2005.

Although other freeware Geometry Wars clones exist, Grid Wars eventually became so popular that Bizarre emailed Incitti and asked him to take the game down, citing that they were "beginning to feel the effects of the Geometry Wars clones on our sales via Microsoft now and are beginning a process to begin to more robustly protect our copyright and intellectual property". The game was pulled from download on August 8, 2006, but many mirrors exist on the web.

[edit] References

• Dobson, Jason. Industry News. Gamasutra. August 9, 2006.
• Sinclair, Brandan. "Bizarre begins Geometry Wars clone wars". GameSpot. August 15, 2006.
• Bramwell, Tom. "Bizarre finally tackles Grid Wars". Eurogamer. August 16, 2006.
• Bramwell, Tom. "Grid Wars author's reflections". Eurogamer. August 18, 2006.

[edit] External links

• My Blitz Creations - Mark Incitti's page with his other games, and where Grid Wars was formerly hosted.
• Reviews of all the Geometry Wars clones available, including ratings and download links