#Boom beach geometry wars software#

There were to be no more released games from Underground after its late-2009 Guitar Hero swansong, but the most painful part of this particular Activision sub-story is that during its last couple of years the studio nearly, oh so very nearly, put out a game that could have made it a household name. In a wild turnaround from its traditional subject matter (and this is not the last time Activision will do that to a studio), the dev was put on (yes!) the official licensed game for X-Men: The Last Stand, and then developed the PS3 port of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, followed by Guitar Hero: Van Halen. What happened? After a long run making (mainly extreme) sports games for a variety of publishers, Underground (previously named Z-Axis) was bought in 2002. Years in the industry before Activision ownership: 8

#Boom beach geometry wars software#

After a successful bounty (or gratuitous milking, as you might prefer to describe it) of Guitar Hero games from various software developers, Activision found that the peripheral-based music genre was losing its sheen in the eyes of consumers (surprising, right?) and axed the whole series, along with its inventor, in 2010. Interestingly Activision didnt buy Harmonix (perhaps seeing the hardware and the core idea as more important than whoever might be putting the software together), which later sold to MTV. Guitar Hero turned out to be as big as a fat elephant, so obviously Activision bought RO before it could bash out the sequel. Basing its idea on popular Japanese arcade game Guitar Freaks, Red Octane designed the guitar hardware and invited burgeoning music game studio Harmonix to handle the software. You see it invented and published a game called Guitar Hero, and that was sort of a big deal. What happened? Red Octanes name might be but a mere whisp of dust amongst the shadowy mists of time now, but it was a very, very important company indeed. Years in the industry before Activision ownership: 6