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Great Games By Defunct Studios

Created May 16, 2018 by Top Dawger
Game developers come and go - it's a tough business, where only the strongest survive. Some studios were with us for years, the others made one or too successful titles and were closed - at least, their way was bright. Let's remember the studios I wish were still with us - and celebrate their achievements.
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LawBreakers screenshot
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LawBreakers
    Cliff Bleszinski made many games during his career. He worked alone, then founded Epic Games and developed 15+ titles, including Gears of War, and finally started Boss Key Productions in 2014. Unfortu…
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    Fallout
    2:
    A
    Post
    Nuclear
    Role
    Playing
    Game
      Black Isle is a legendary studio. It went down in the history of videogames with the first two titles in the Fallout series. It's hard to overrate the influence of this game on the RPG genre and the p…
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      Dungeon Keeper 2 screenshot
      Dungeon
      Keeper
      2
        Bullfrog Productions was a British video game developer, founded in 1987 by Les Edgar and Peter Molyneux. They gained popularity with their third title, Populous. Soon after that they joined EA, their…
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        81
        Kingdoms
        of
        Amalur:
        Reckoning
          Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was the only title by 38 Studios. Despite the fact that famous game designers, writers and musicians - Ken Rolston, R. A. Salvatore, Todd McFarlane, and Grant Kirkhope pa…
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          Another
          World
            Delphine Software was a very productive developer. Besides extremely beautiful cinematic platformer Another World, they made over 20 other titles, including the Moto Racer series. However, Another Wor…
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            70
            Homefront
              Kaos Studios was created by former members of Trauma Studios to focus on first-person shooters only. They worked as a subsidiary of THQ from 2006 till 2011. During this time they made two games - Fron…
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              83
              L.A.
              Noire
                A small Australian studio Team Bondi made one of the best neo-noir detective games of all time - L.A. Noire. Their appointment with Rockstar Games that published the game, was a success. However, the …
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                Destroy All Humans! screenshot
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                Destroy
                All
                Humans!
                  You surely know the titles, developed by Pandemic Studios: Star Wars: Battlefront , Destroy All Humans!, The Lord of the Rings: Conquest, The Saboteur, Batman: The Dark Knight. All of them are creativ…
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                  BioShock
                    Irrational Games has a long history. They were known as 2K Boston; in 2017 the studio announced it had rebranded itself as Ghost Story Games, founded by 12 of the former Irrational members. While Ghos…
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