Blitz Games Studios
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| Video game developer | |
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Defunct | 12 September 2013 |
| Headquarters | Leamington Spa, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Philip Oliver, Andrew Oliver, Richard Smithies |
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Number of employees
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230+ |
| Divisions |
Blitz Games Blitz Arcade Volatile Games TruSim Blitz Academy BlitzTech |
| Website | http://www.BlitzGamesStudios.com/ |
Blitz Games Studios Limited was a video game developer located in Leamington Spa, United Kingdom best known for producing games based on franchises such as iCarly, SpongeBob SquarePants and Bratz. It was founded by the Oliver Twins, Andrew and Philip Oliver, in 1990 as Interactive Studios. The twins themselves had completed their first game in 1984 and started developing titles for video game publisher Codemasters in 1985.
The company announced in September 2013 that it was closing following problems raising finance for new projects.
In 2008 Blitz Games Studios launched the Blitz1UP programme to help independent developers bring their games to market. The programme provided free help and advice on all aspects of game production as well as crowd sourced QA. The programme was closed in 2011 and was replaced by IndieCity, an online indie game market place.
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2006
On 12 September 2013, the company announced via a statement on its website that it was closing after 23 years of business. The closure came as a result of the company struggling to raise money to support future development projects. The demise of THQ, a major client, was said by Philip Oliver to have hit the company particularly hard. 50 of the firm's 175 staff were said to be joining a new business set up by the Oliver brothers to continue to work on some of Blitz's former projects. On 27 November 2013, Gamasutra reported the formation of Radiant Worlds, a new company headed by the Oliver brothers. The new company was said to have recruited a number of former Blitz staff including the former company's COO.
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