The weather effects they pulled in pgr4 were sweet been playing their games since msr very sad day indeed.

It shall be missed

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Rest in peace old friend, your studio may be gone, but your Geometry Wars lives on in all of us!

Sucks to see them shut down. Blur was awesome.

Microsoft should have acquired them and had them work on PGR5.

As the saying goes:

Activision, Where Developers Go To Die.

PGR was so much fun. My favourite racer of this gen by miles... sad to see the studio go. Hope someone snaps up all those talented devs

sad

Very sad to see people lose their jobs, especially a developer as creative as they were. No offense to Activision, but they're making a big mistake shutting down studios that developed great games like PGR.

PGR2 was is my favorite racing game of all time and Blur was my favorite racer last year. Sad to see these guys get canned like this, Activision never used them to their full potential.

Here's to hoping they can reform under a new name and make PGR5!

That's a shame. Blur was good too. Definitely should've sold better. Here's hoping for a new start up company. Good luck.

if bungie was owned by activision, i would bet activision would close them down, and run away with the ip name, while fathers are left with nothing to feed their kids.

on-topic, i am really sad they were to go. i was one of the few who enjoyed blur very much. too bad the hate for activision overwhelmed what was one of their better games. hopefully someone would buy them, wait, actually i think sony could use a second gt studio to help with creating premium car textures, why not hire these guys?

anyways, RIP bizarre.

I don't know why anyone would want a merger with Activision, its like saying here take our IPs and then fire us later along the way. Hope Bizarre employees find better employment.

Shame hope they can find work fast again.
Bye geometry wars 3.

Sad. PGR was the only arcade racer that actually did something different with a Kudo System. Made it very skillful. TY Bizzare Creations for creating one of the best arcade racer franchises ever. And yes, Blur was awesome too.

That's it. I am NEVER buying another Activision product new or used until Bobby and all of these other evil, greedy people who control Activion are gone and some decent people take their places.

All Actvision cares about now is is CoD. The game hasn't changed much at all in four or more years. Yet idiot continue to buy it. Now that has caused the cancellation of the Guitar Hero and DJ Hero series. The next true crime, which had potential was also canned. There are other things they've recently done too that I'm unable to recall ATM.

They also screwed things up with IW, but luckily those guys are now with EA. Hopefully they'll take CoD down, which would mean the demise of Activision hopefully.

Now however they're closing down Bizzare. They're made some pretty good games. They haven' sold as well as CoD, but they're good games. They actually took some risks with their games.

I'm tired of Activision's BS. I'm not longer supporting them and I don't see why anyone else should.

They are messing up the industry. We gamers deserve good games that are actually innovative. Not $60 expansions every year. We need to boycott all the crap like CoD Activsion keeps on throwing out. We need to take them down and bring the industry back to where innovative games we made often and actually made money.

Sad to see bizarre getting shut down. It reminds me of Pandemic’s heartbreaking closure thanks to those equally caring folk at EA.

But I would like to think that a new studio would rise from the ashes of BC. Hopefully with a nice little PGR 5 contract from Microsoft to start them off on a high note.

It's sad, i really loved their games.

Damn this sucks. The first games I bought for my original Xbox and 360 were the PGR racing games. I used to play PGR2 for hours playing cat and mouse, and just racing with people in general. I made a lotta friends playing those games. I do hope they start up another company.

Thanks Activision for destroying yet another talented studio.

How could this company not have made enough money to stay open?

What kind of deal did they have with Microsoft over Project Gotham?

Let's hope Bungie is not next, I appreciate these companies want to be independent but the large publishers just eat them up and spit them out, Activision are not dev friendly right now, though I think they should get off their ego trip because the COD series will soon be overshadowed by the new Battlefield, Crysis 2, the KZ series, and then theres whatever Bungie comes up with next because Halo needs a new friend, my point is that people see what's going on and I don't want to support a publisher that treats the devs badly. Bizzare creations will be back, I don't think MS will support them because they kind of jumped ship like bungie, having said that I don't see this as being personal so MS and Sony may at least support them if they have a new IP, but I don't see them moving inhouse.

I'm gonna miss it.

Because they didnt make COD levels of profit, very sad indeed.

Take two you're next!!!

Thats the price of gaming productions these and yet some people are eager to see a new set of consoles.

I wonder how many mergers and closedowns we will see next gen.

Epicrytek

Capcom snk

Suckerpunch bought by one of the platform holders.

These things are becoming more apperant as times goes on.

I can already see EA and Activision trying to swallow who ever is left out there in the future.

That is if people continue to purcharse their games and paying for online passes and buying over price dlc.

Keep in mind folks PGR is the property of Microsoft - a PGR5 can happen without Bizarre (though as a fan it wouldn't be the same).

The Xbox division has not listened to the customer since the 360 days. Ever since Kinect, Microsoft has been about selling us what they want and trying to tell us it’s what we want rather than actually selling us what we are asking for.

Microsoft does have a history of running things into the ground simply because they don't innovate or give products breathing space. I fully expect in the long term they will manage the same with Call of Duty and will kill it, just as they killed Halo and Forza and many other IP's over the years. This also extends to things like windows phones and such. They just were not competitive and did not listen to consumers.

Battlefield has beaten Call of Duty in players number not in sales maybe but in players

So far everything XBox touches die...

Same shit every year, give it a rest.

If they're going to do stuff like MW3 and BLOPS 7, at least make the campaign split-screen co-op. The way the maps are structured there's no reason not to, and it just adds value to a game that's short on it as it is.

Pretty sure BF6 will “pay the bills” just fine 🤪
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COD is turning into a sports game wash, rinse, repeat. At least Ubisoft stopped doing the yearly releases with AC and it worked.

Call of Duty can die only by killing itself. This can happen to any franchise and happened to Medal of Honor which ironically was created by the original team that made Call of Duty.