According to EGM’s Quartermann, Bizarre Creation’s new owner Activision may have secured a deal to make a James Bond title. It is rumored that it will contain “a load of driving elements”, hardly surprising as these are the same guys which brought us Project Gotham Racing. With a new Bond movie coming to cinema screens in 2008, be sure to keep your eyes and ears peeled for further updates on this story.
via Kotaku
Activision today announced their acquisition of UK-based game developers Bizarre Creations, the developer of Microsoft’s hugely popular Project Gotham Racing series, for an undisclosed sum.
Bizarre Creations team of 160 people will start work on two new AAA titles (not surprisingly including one racing game) while they finish their current projects - Project Gotham Racing 4 for Microsoft, The Club for SEGA and Geometry Wars: Galaxies for Sierra.
Activision expects to publish their first Bizarre title after fiscal 2009.
With the Wii and DS crowd set for a whole new Geometry Wars experience, the hardcore Xbox 360 owners who made the series so popular in the first place might be feeling a little left out.
Well, suck it up people - Bizarre Creations are preparing a new Geometry Wars game, based on Retro Evolved, for inclusion in the upcoming Project Gotham Racing 4 - due for release in October this year.
via Pro-G
A spokesperson from Bizarre Creations has posted some unfortunate news on their official forums:
You won’t see different times of day per city because this involves recreating all the textures again (one for day and one for night). Whilst this wasn’t a problem for our dev team, it was a problem fitting all this data onto a single DVD. So we’ve worked around the problem by providing different lighting models per city. For example, Macau is always in the daytime, but if you play it during a storm everything looks darker and more foreboding. If you play during a blizzard then things are slightly tinged blue and everything seems more frozen. Of course, playing this track in sunshine will make everything appear bright and yellowy.
