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| Company type | Subsidiary In Name Only Unit of Interplay since original shut down in 2003 |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Founder | Feargus Urquhart |
| Successor | Obsidian Entertainment |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Feargus Urquhart, Chris Avellone, Josh Sawyer, Darren Monahan, Chris Parker |
| Parent | Interplay Entertainment |
| Website | www.blackisle.com at the Wayback Machine (archived November 5, 2014) [a] |
Black Isle Studios is a division of the developer and publisher Interplay Entertainment formed in 1996 that develops role-playing video games. It has published several games from other developers.
Black Isle is based in Irvine, California.[1] The idea for the division's name came from the Black Isle in Scotland – founder Feargus Urquhart's ancestral country.[2] Black Isle Studios is most famous for its work on the Fallout series as well as the critically acclaimed Planescape: Torment. They achieved success with the Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate series of role-playing video games, though they only published the Baldur's Gate series. In 1999, IGN's RPG Vault gave it the award for a Developer of the Year.[3] The company was closed in late 2003 due to Interplay's financial troubles.[4]
Interplay briefly revived the Black Isle name in August 2012 with the intention of producing new role-playing games under that label.[5][6] Black Isle Studios released Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance remastered in May 2021.[7]
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- ^ "Black Isle Studios". IGN. Archived from the original on May 25, 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2006.
- ^ Keefer, John (January 2001). "Black Isle Studios: We are not BioWare". GameSpy. Archived from the original on 2004-12-11. Retrieved 2006-06-25.
- ^ 1999 Vault Network Awards
- ^ Thorsen, Tor (2003-12-08). "Interplay shuts down Black Isle Studios". GameSpot. Archived from the original on 2006-06-13. Retrieved May 1, 2006.
- ^ Sarkar, Samit (8 August 2012). "Black Isle Studios is back in name only". Polygon. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ "Games – Page 83 – Black Gate". 23 October 2012. Archived from the original on 3 July 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ "Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 Re-Release is "On the Table" – Black Isle Studios". Archived from the original on 2022-07-22. Retrieved 2021-05-12.