Whenever a large company acquires a smaller one, most people will and should always be a little nervous. This time around it’s Bizarre Creation’s turn to be acquired by Activision. Similar to EA’s Acquisition of Criterion, PGR 4 developer Bizzare Creations is now under the cozy umbrella of Activision with the promise to not change a thing.

• Bizarre Creations continues to exist as is. We won’t become Activision Liverpool or anything like that.
• We will have absolutely no redundancies.
• All of our teams continue to exist exactly how they are at the moment. Amax team (PGR4) and Shitstorm team (The Club) will move onto new games, whilst our Shared Technology team will use this opportunity to take our experience and tech to new levels and new formats.
• The Activision way of running things is “hands off”. Bizarre continue to have creative control over what we do, we still run the studio how we see fit, and we still get to run our own web site and do all sorts of fun community things!

The saying “the more things change, the more they say the same” most definitely applies here, but lets just hope the stay the same part weighs heavier then the inevitable change that’s bound to happen over time.

Activison acquires Bizarre Creations [BC Studio News]

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