<![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @Witzbold:

I'm sure Activision is about to break down now they know.

Besides that:
You all surely don't all believe that PGR will move with this transition. It's a Microsoft brand... so buying the developer doesn't get you the brands they develop for, like many here already said.

So, looking forward to a fresh breathe of air in that crampy racing genre hopefully.

Rince

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> I am not sure if it was mentioned, but to reiterate, PGR is a Microsoft Franchise, developed by Bizarre. It will not be coming to the PS3. If PGR4 bombs, it will come to the DS however! haha!

Belain

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Of course PGR will come to PS3. Just Like Metropolis Street Racer came to Xbox. They just need to change the name...

tachikoma

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> PGR is property of Microsoft.
MSR is property of SEGA.
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Bizzare will have to make NEW game.




anonim1979

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @HOVA: Bizarre were always independent, so MS did not make any money of the Activision acquisition of Bizarre.

JonC

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> I know PGR is the semi offical child of MSR, but I think the name is free of exclusivity, so a multi-plat update of that game would be sweet.

Spread the love to all our console brothers! (and PC owners too)

JudgeNutmeg

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Excellent! Bizarre is a great developer and I can't wait to see what they can do with the W-... er... with Activision.

NPC

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> I don't like Activision, but it totally beats EA...and MS just took a swift kick in the ass.

superbeast1370

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Madness.. Madness i tells ya..

The fact M$ agreed to sell Bizzare will probably be a really bad mistake in the near future..

that or they needed the money..
lol

PGR is the only racing game needed to balance all the shit games like NFS/Flatout/Juiced.

HOVA

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Metropolis Street Racer is PGR. There's barely any difference.

NoBullet

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @T-man: That would suck, playing a game that makes it easier to win if you are rich... other than rich people can sit at home and play games all day because they don't have to go to work.

ceilingFANBOY

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Nooooooooooo!

How odd! I thought MS would have kept Bizarre close to tehir chest. They're the reason why I bought that dark green hulk of a box after falling in love with MSR.

It would be real nice to play MSR all over again though, somwhow I feel that this is bad news though. If MS decided that Forza was more than enough of a replacement for pgr, then they're mistaken.

Thinking about the PGR series, so far, only PGR2 has been worthy of serious playtime. 1 & 3 were rushed launch titles, so maybe this could a good thing.

Meh, I'm still hurt by the whole Sony & Lik Sang news story to care anymore

Gaz

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @kuzuboshii: I've been hooked up to Super Stardust HD on the PS3 for a while now. Although not exactly the same as Geometry Wars, the gameplay is very similar. Personally I think it's a much better game than Geometry Wars.

Pixelantes Anonymous

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Why do people care about geometry wars so much? That game came out in the seventies and isn't any more amazingly fun now than it was then. If you ask me flow is the better of the two by far.

kuzuboshii

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @justhesh: Possibly, but I'd still play those over any other racers (granted, Outrun loses a lot without the arcade cabinet).

jaredgood1

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @darkened-flame: Next year it'll be Air Guitar Hero: just an empty jewel case.

poduski

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> GT>PGR

*stabbed*

tehFluffz

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @Pixelantes Anonymous:
Forza has much more R&D than PGR did. Also the PGR video stuff was all done in house at MS. Same with the Forza one. Too bad about them not working together though.

Hills

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @drawp: exactly and that game rocks

demonwolf

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @jaredgood1:

You're bonkers.

justhesh

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> ...answering my own question...

A blog post on Bizarre's own forums by a Bizarre employee seems to indicate that Bizarre and Microsoft Game Studios are done with each other, so Turn 10 will no longer be able to use Bizarre's R&D and vice versa.

Me thinks Turn 10 and MGS is the loser on this deal.

The blog post in question here: [www.bizarrecreations.com]

Pixelantes Anonymous

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> I can only see this being good for the Project Gotham and Geometry Wars series. Activision has a great track record of keeping the purity of existing franchises and being very fair in the pricing of both the games themselves and any additional content. Take the Guitar Hero franchise for instance, it's not like they released a half-baked 80's expansion pack for full price, jacked up the price of the game and peripheral to $100, put in silly things like boss battles, or charged exorbitant prices for downloads that are promised but not delivered!

Oh...wait.

Swervo

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> So what happens to the Turn 10 and Bizarre collaboration now? They've been sharing code for the past two years or so (Gotham TV, tournaments).

Pixelantes Anonymous

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Screw the gotham series, bring back MSR! Man, do any of you guys remember the delays for that game? waiting and waiting for it to be released? boy that game didn't let me down, i waxed it for months non stop.

gmanisme

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Great. Now we'll have to buy wheels for our PGR cars separately on XBL. Run out of gas? 500 points.

T-man

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @AgainstOne: Spider-Man turned to shit because of Treyarch, who also make the craptacular COD3.

As for the fall of Tony Hawk...It mainly has to do with a lazy development team, and perhaps more so, stupid consumers who keep on buying millions of copies every year. In other words, the same problem with EA and Madden.

ashtar

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Being a fan of Geometry Wars, I am not sure whether this will be a good or a bad thing. I'm already concerned with Bizarre not doing Galaxies, but atleast it sounds like they are making a true follow up to the XBLA edition based on the statements about Waves.

AwShucks

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Guitar Hero 3 anyone? Activision gets their paws on it and in one version the game has taken on some *very* strange characteristics.

This really makes me sad - PGR is one of my favorite racing franchises. I hope Bizarre can fend them off for as long as possible. Sooner or later, though, we all know Activision will screw it up.

darkened-flame

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> just look what happened to the Spider-Man series or the Tony Hawk series. this sucks.

AgainstOne

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @Draconis: i am

AgainstOne

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Guess the Ridge Racer series finally has some competition......or not.

Megatenist

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Really, this could go either way for Bizarre (at least it wasn't EA that acquired them), but I'm not expecting the quality of all of their products to immediately plummet to the ground.

Draconis

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @perrinbar: They are already working on a Wii version, confirmed months ago.

Big Gray.

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> What a crock of shit. I'll give it a year, maybe 2, before Activision runs Bizarre into the ground. Activision's way of doing things is to force their devs to port their games to every console without offering them the support necessary to do so. This result in lesser quality across the board. The only studios under Activision's tainted influence that are immune to this are Infinity Ward and id. Everyone else gets a raw deal. RIP Bizarre.

Zanch

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> You would think that MS would have bought them if anyone since it was with MS that they got big as a 2nd party. Owell..

d0x

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @MadGodji:
Or one of their older titles like Metropolitan Street Racer


ConstyXIV

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Do they still own the MSR series? I can't remember who published that one... Eurocom? Sega?

I guess it doesn't really matter. They'll just come up with a new name for essentially the same game, just like they did when they went from MSR to PGR.

megahurtz

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @perrinbar: Well, Bizarre owns taht, as demonstrated by the new versions for DS and Wii, along with the one on Steam.
So, PSN Geo Wars or anything else doesn't seem that far fetched.

Crippl3

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @Kokuryukai:

No need. PS3's got Super Stardust HD

drawp

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Ahhh, MSR! My Dreamcast was very happy with that game (I hope so because it was welded inside for months). That game alone almost had me buying an Xbox for the sort-of sequel Project Gotham Racing.

MSR PS3 PLEASE!!

crashlanding

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> I wonder why MS didn't pick them up.

mikeluisortega

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> The PGR licence belongs to Microsoft. So no multi-support PGR, that will have to be a new licence.

MadGodji

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Metropolis Street Racer was a great series. Knowing that Bizarre was creating PGR sold me on the Xbox. RIP Dreamcast. :-(

elliottsa

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Maybe Activision'll give them Tony Hawk?

Touy

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> I would love to see Bizarre get back on to an F1 game!

-EDGE-

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> omg no

AgainstOne

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Can we say Geometry Wars for the PS3 - wow what a major upset for fanboys

Kokuryukai

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @perrinbar:

maybe it'll show up on the psn

Vecha

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> And this affects the two greatest racing games ever how? (Outrun and Mario Kart)

jaredgood1

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Ah, but what about that darling of Xbox live, Geometry Wars?

perrinbar

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @JonC:

Yea good point...

Vecha

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> I don't think PGR4 can come out on PS3. But the next installment may, or maybe they will just start a new racing franchise?

method47

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> PGR is all about the graphics, the racing itself is prety subpar. I don't are about racing games though, I'd rather just jump in my car and experience the real thing.

fdisk

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Who owns the IP to PGR? MS or Bizarre? Just because one develops them doesn't make them the owner to a franchise.

JonC

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @ceilingFANBOY:

Yea...guess ps3 owners/fanboys won't shove it in the face of the 360 owners/fanboys then..lol

Vecha

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> @vecha: Yea, but the PS3 owners will still just buy GT5 instead.

ceilingFANBOY

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> Ew.

I never did like Activision that much.

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[Activision Makes Bizarre Acquisition]]> wait...so could PGR come on the ps3 eventually?...not that I care...not a racing fan.

Vecha

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