Peoww News

Liverpool-based studio, Bizarre Creations, most famous for the brilliant arcadey racing series, Project Gotham Racing, have confirmed their closure, following parent company, Activision-Weyland-Yutani-Blizzard’s failure to find a buyer. BC made their fateful deal with the devil in 2007, after parting ways from Microsoft in the wake of PGR4‘s poor chart performance (apparently bikes + rain =  enough innovation).

The closure comes off the back of dismal sales for both the inspired kart-racer, Blur, and the Bond movie-tie-in-sans-movie, Blood Stone. CEO Bobby Kotick also cited the lack of (promised) tax breaks in the UK as a reason to cease investment in the country. So you can blame the Tories for this, too.

Hard economic realities aside, it fucking sucks to see such a talented company gamble on innovation and lose everything in the process. I, for one, will miss them. For some, though, the worst outcome of the closure will be that the Geometry Wars franchise is now firmly in the hands of Activision – despoiler of all that is righteous and pure in this industry.  Adam