Arkane Studios
Description from its website:
Arkane Studios is based in Lyon , France . With the ambitious goal to create very high-quality, innovative games offering players maximum freedom and complete immersion in powerful and believable universes.
With significant experience in first-person games, our team is now determined to explore the possibilities offered by online and new-generation-console games and express ourselves while meeting some new challenges.
In August, 2010 Arkane Studios was aquired by Zenimax. It is rumored they are helping to create Skyrim.
History
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1999 |
Arkane Studios is started in Lyon in France , by a few experienced developers, coming mainly from Electronic Arts and Atari. |
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2000 |
Arkane Studios creates – self-funded – a demo for Arx Fatalis, which enables the company to find a publisher for a worldwide distribution. |
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2002 |
Arkane Studios releases first PC CD-ROM game, Arx Fatalis. Published by Jowood, this medieval-fantasy role-playing game received many awards and nominations as well as an excellent reception by the European and American media. |
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2003 |
Arx Fatalis is published for Xbox by Dreamcatcher. Arkane Studios meets with Valve Software. Valve provides their new technology, the Source Engine TM, used by Half-Life 2 TM. |
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2004 |
Arkane Studios signs with UbiSoft to develop a title under the Might and Magic TM brand. |
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2005 |
Arkane Studios continues work on new "Might and Magic" game. |
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2006 |
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic TM is expected to be released during 2006, published by Ubisoft: this first-person action game/role playing game is developed with Half-Life 2 (Source Engine TM) technology and with the support of Valve Software. |
