Bizarre Creations

Bizarre Creations Limited
FormerlyRaising Hell Software Limited
(1988–1994)
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryVideo games
Founded1988; 36 years ago (1988)
FounderMartyn Chudley
DefunctFebruary 18, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-02-18)
FateDissolved
SuccessorLucid Games
HeadquartersLiverpool, England
Key people
Products
Number of employees
200[1] (2011)
Parent
Website[1]

Bizarre Creations Limited was a British video game development studio based in Liverpool, best known for their racing titles Metropolis Street Racer (Dreamcast) and the follow-up Project Gotham Racing series (Xbox, Xbox 360, mobile phones and Zune HD). The company has also developed games in other genres, including the Geometry Wars arcade series, plus the third-person shooters Fur Fighters and The Club. Bizarre Creations was acquired by publisher Activision in 2007, and subsequently completed its racer Blur in May 2010.

On 20 January 2011, Activision announced Bizarre Creations would close, and later confirmed the date. Bizarre marked the closure by releasing a retrospective video of its work.[2]

  1. ^ "Former members of Bizarre Creations found a new studio". Gamerant. 25 February 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference eurogamer_goodbye was invoked but never defined (see the help page).