Arcane Studios

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Arcane Studios

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legal form Holding company
founding 1999
Seat Lyon , FranceFranceFrance 
management Raphaël Colantonio
Branch Software development
Website www.arkane-studios.com

Arkane Studios is a French video game development team founded in 1999 in Lyon by Raphaël Colantonio . Since 2006 there has also been a branch in Austin (Texas) .

history

The studio's first published game was the 3D role-playing game Arx Fatalis , which was released in 2002 for the PC and later also for Xbox . It was published by the Austrian publisher JoWooD .

The next game from Arkane Studios was Dark Messiah of Might and Magic and was released via Ubisoft in late 2006 . More than a year later, the game was released for the Xbox 360 under the title Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements . The studio then tried an innovative game concept that should bring together single and multiplayer aspects. The game, announced under the name The Crossing , had to be discontinued due to financial difficulties.

In July 2009 it was announced that the Arkane Studios for 2K Games were involved in the development of BioShock 2 . In August 2010 the company was taken over by ZeniMax Media . In July 2011, Arkane Studios announced Dishonored, an action title with an RPG aspect.

Published games

Surname Year of publication platform Publisher Engine USK annotation
Arx Fatalis 2002, 2003 (Xbox) PC , Xbox AustriaAustria JoWooD Entertainment DreamCatcher Interactive
United StatesUnited States
from 16 years Xbox version of Wizarbox developed
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic 2006 Pc FranceFrance Ubisoft Source Engine from 18 years German version censored
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements 2008 Xbox 360 FranceFrance Ubisoft Source Engine from 18 years Xbox 360 offshoot of Dark Messiah of Might and Magic . German version censored
BioShock 2 2010 PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 United StatesUnited States 2K Games Unreal Engine 2.5 from 18 years Co-developer
Dishonored: The Mask of Wrath 2012 PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 United StatesUnited States Bethesda Softworks Unreal Engine 3 from 18 years
Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall 2013 PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 United StatesUnited States Bethesda Softworks Unreal Engine 3 from 18 years Download content for Dishonored
Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches 2013 PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 United StatesUnited States Bethesda Softworks Unreal Engine 3 from 18 years Download content for Dishonored
Dishonored: Definitive Edition 2015 Xbox One , PlayStation 4 United StatesUnited States Bethesda Softworks Unreal Engine 3 from 18 years New edition of Dishonored for the current generation of consoles
Dishonored 2: Legacy of the Mask 2016 PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 United StatesUnited States Bethesda Softworks Void engine from 18 years Released November 11, 2016
Prey 2017 PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 United StatesUnited States Bethesda Softworks CryEngine from 16 years Developed by Arkane Studios Austin
Dishonored: Death of the Outsider 2017 PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 United StatesUnited States Bethesda Softworks Void engine from 18 years
Wolfenstein: Youngblood 2019 PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Switch United StatesUnited States Bethesda Softworks id Tech 6 from 18 years Developed together with MachineGames

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Sebastian Thöing: The Crossing: Ego-Shooter put on hold for financial reasons . In: PC Games . Computec Media Group . May 25, 2009. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
  2. Frank Moers: Bioshock 2: Arkane works with the first person shooter: Will The Crossing be discontinued? . In: PC Games . Computec Media Group . July 11, 2009. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
  3. Julian Dasgupta: Zenimax: Arcane swallowed . In: 4Players . freenet AG . August 13, 2010. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
  4. Andy Robinson: Bethesda's Dishonored is official - huge talent on board ( English ) CVG. July 7, 2011. Archived from the original on November 3, 2012. Retrieved on July 10, 2011.
  5. Prey: First gameplay trailer with Cryengine power. Retrieved August 11, 2016 .