Starbreeze Studios is a video game development studio founded by members of the demo group Triton, based in
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,
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.
History
The company was founded in 1998, under the name
O3 Games. In 2000,
O3 Games merged with the smaller company
Starbreeze Studios which was then based in
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,
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. In November 2002, the parent company was renamed Starbreeze AB, of which
Starbreeze Studios AB is a wholly owned subsidiary.
Starbreeze is listed on the Swedish stock market list
Aktietorget since 2000 where the company stock is still publicly traded. As of February 2011, Starbreeze employs around 120 people.
Starbreeze Studios´ founders include people who were formerly members of the PC
demosceneThe demoscene is a computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are non-interactive audio-visual presentations that run in real-time on a computer...
group Triton; Magnus Högdahl worked as CTO and was credited as Lead Engine Programmer. He ended his employment in July 2009. Along with Fredrik Ljungdahl, Jens Matthies, Jim Kjellin, Kjell Emanuelsson, Michael Wynne and Jerk Gustafsson, went on to found Machinegames, also located in
Uppsala- Economy :Today Uppsala is well established in medical research and recognized for its leading position in biotechnology.*Abbott Medical Optics *GE Healthcare*Pfizer *Phadia, an offshoot of Pharmacia*Fresenius*Q-Med...
.
The company was developing two new games, but one of them has been cancelled. The first, codenamed
Project RedLime, is a "reinvention" of the
Syndicate franchise published by
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. The second game based on Robert Ludlum's
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series, was also going to be published by
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, but the project was shelved.
Titles
- 2000 – The Outforce
The Outforce is a traditional top-down RTS game played across a battlefield in space.-External links:*...
(Microsoft Windows)
- 2002 – Enclave (Microsoft Windows, Xbox)
- 2003 – Knights of the Temple (Nintendo GameCube, Microsoft Windows, Xbox, PlayStation 2) (Released only in Europe)
- 2004 – The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay is a first-person action/stealth video game developed by Starbreeze Studios and published by Vivendi Games. Released for the Xbox and Windows in 2004, the game is a tie-in prequel to the futuristic science fiction film The Chronicles of Riddick...
(Xbox, Microsoft Windows)
- 2007 – The Darkness
The Darkness is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Starbreeze Studios and published by 2K Games for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. It was released on June 25, 2007 in North America and on June 20, 2007 in Europe. The video game is based on the comic book of the same title...
(Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
- 2009 – The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is a science fiction first-person action game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Mac OS X. The game is a sequel to The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, which has been remade and has been included along with the Assault...
(Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
- 2012 – Syndicate
Syndicate is an upcoming video game by Starbreeze Studios set for release in February 2012 for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 platforms...
(Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
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