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| Blitz Games Studios |
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| Founded |
1990 |
| Founder(s) |
Andrew and Philip Oliver |
| Located |
Leamington Spa, UK |
| Website |
Official site |
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Blitz Games Studios is a video game developer
located in Leamington Spa, United Kingdom. It was founded by the
Oliver Twins, Andrew and Philip Oliver, in 1981. They completed their
first game in 1984 and started developing titles for
video game publisher Codemasters.
The Codemasters publishing relationship led to the origin of the
Dizzy series and the Simulator series. Whilst with Codemasters,
they were responsible for over 10 UK number one best sellers and
over 3 million sales. In 1986, it was reported that an estimated 7%
of all UK games sales were attributable to the Oliver Twins.
The Olivers have diversified the company’s main activities and
Blitz Games Studios now represents five different divisions.
Divisions
- Blitz Games: Creates the games that the
company originally became well known for: family titles, often
licensed on popular characters and existing IP.
- Blitz Arcade: This is the division that creates downloadable
games. Its first release was an advergame series created for the US
Burger King chain. Since then, Blitz Arcade has turned its focus to
downloadable titles and has had success with its first game of this
type: SpongeBob Squarepants – Underpants Slam.
- Volatile Games: Responsible for the company’s mature games.
Video games created by this division include Reservoir Dogs, runner
up in the 2006
BAFTA awards for best sound track. Despite allowing the player to
complete the game without firing a single shot, the game was
considered so realistic in its depictions of violence that it was
banned in Australia.
- TruSim: Blitz Games Studios "serious games" division. It is
best know for its work on medical-related training programs
including the award-winning Interactive Trauma Trainer.
- BlitzTech: Creates and licenses in-house game development
technology.
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