Fox Interactive

Fox Interactive

Former type	Subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Games
Industry	Software & Programming
Fate	Closed
Founded	1994
Defunct	2006
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, United States
Owner	News Corporation (1994–2003) Vivendi (2003–2006)
Parent	20th Century Fox (1994–2003) Vivendi Games (2003–2006)

Fox Interactive was a video game publisher and developer mainly concerned with titles based on 20th Century Fox properties, such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, the Alien and Predator 2, and The Operative: No One Lives Forever , Predator film franchises, Independence Day, Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, 24, the first two Ice Age films, the Die Hard series of films and others made by 20th Century Fox. They have also been involved with original titles, including Croc: Legend of the Gobbos.

History

Fox Interactive was formed in December 1994 and was an operating unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment, a News Corporation company. The company published, developed and produced games mainly for titles based on 20th Century Fox film and movie properties.

Their first two games were The Pagemaster, based on the film of the same name, and The Tick, based on the Fox Kids cartoon series of the same name. Fox Interactive released both arcade games, Die Hard Arcade and The Simpsons Bowling. The company became most well known for its Croc, Aliens vs. Predator, Die Hard and Charmed games.

In March 2003, Fox Interactive was acquired by Vivendi Universal Games and closed down in 2006. Future Fox Interactive games are now published by Fox Digital Entertainment or other 3rd party companies.

List of video games developed

References

20th Century Fox, Fox Video Games, Inc.