Tigon Studios

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Tigon Studios
Type
Founded 2002
Founder Vin Diesel
Headquarters Bellevue, Washington, USA
Key people Vin Diesel, founder and actor
Industry Software & Programming
Products The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
Website www.tigonstudios.com

Tigon Studios is a video game production company focused primarily on games featuring or starring actor Vin Diesel.

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[edit] Released games

[edit] The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay is set before the films Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick. It is a first-person shooter, which mixes stealth and combat.

[edit] Games in development

[edit] The Wheelman

The Wheelman is a game that is announced to be in production. While at the moment there is not much information about the game, the trailer available on the website suggests a game in the spirit of The Transporter movies, and the Driver series.

[edit] Secret Service

A game that has been announced on the Tigon Studios website. Secret Service seeks to put the player in the position of a member of the United States Secret Service. The game is a collaboration between Tigon Studios, Director Bryan Singer and Mark Feigin.

[edit] Perrone: Raised on Honor

Based upon the career of New York City Police Officer Frank "Frankie Dynamite" Perrone and Lorenzo "Philly McCann" Gonnella. The game follows his career and his unwillingness "to rat on his mobster contacts" [sic]. Perrone seeks to put the player into the shoes of the cop who graced the department's "Most Violent Prone Cops List", and to play out the biography of a decade of his life.

[edit] Melkor

A game that appears to be based on one of Vin Diesel's Dungeons & Dragons characters who appears to be named after Morgoth from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, Melkor is a fantasy "epic" that has been scheduled to be a series of games. According to the website, Melkor's game-style is influenced by "Dungeons & Dragons, Conan and Lord of the Rings".

[edit] Barca B.C.

A Real-Time Strategy game that is based upon the historical battles of Hannibal Barca. The game proposes to be an unparelleled Action Real-Time Strategy, and will put you in control of Hannibal's forces during his historical campaigns against Rome.

[edit] The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is a remake of Escape From Butcher Bay, for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Vivendi Games, Sierra Entertainment, Tigon Games, Starbreeze Studios and Universal Pictures are working on the project, with promises of new content and new features.[1]

[edit] Unnamed Chronicles of Riddick Sequel

Little is known about this game. It was announced as a sequel to Escape from Butcher Bay in 2004, but nothing has been heard of it since.[2][3]

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