Beenox

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Beenox

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legal form Activision subsidiary
founding 2000
Seat Quebec City , Quebec City , Canada
Number of employees 330
Website beenox.com

Beenox is a Canadian development studio for computer games . The studio was founded in 2000 by Dominique Brown. On May 25, 2005, Beenox was bought by Activision and is now a subsidiary of Activision.

Company history

Between 2002 and 2006, the developer studio concentrated exclusively on porting computer games. The studio has currently completed around 30 projects for Windows and Mac OS ; for famous franchises such as X-Men , Spider-Man and Shrek, among others . With the game of the same name for the film Bee Movie - The Honey Complot , Beenox started to publish its own developments again in 2007. Activision announced at E3 2015 that Beenox was behind the Windows version of the computer game "Spider-Man: Friend or Enemy", which was published in October 2007.

In 2015 it was announced that Beenox is working with Mercenary Technology to port the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops III to the XBox 360 and Playstation 3 .

In 2018 and 2019 respectively, Activision announced that Beenox would work with Activision Blizzard on the PC port for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 for the Battle.NET platform and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for the Battle.NET platform is working.

The studio currently employs around 330 developers.

Video games produced

Own development

year game Platform (s)
2001 Pillars of Garendall Windows , Mac OS
Coldstone game engine Mac OS
2007 Bee Movie - The Game Windows , PlayStation 2 , Xbox 360
2009 Monsters vs. Aliens Windows , PlayStation 2 , PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 , Wii
Guitar Hero Smash Hits PlayStation 2 , PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 , Wii
2010 Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions Windows , PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 , Wii
2011 Spider-Man: Edge of Time PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 , Wii , Nintendo 3DS ,
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man Windows , PlayStation 3 , PlayStation Vita , Xbox 360 , Wii , Wii U , Nintendo 3DS
2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Windows , PlayStation 3 , PlayStation 4 , Xbox 360 , Xbox One , Wii U , Nintendo 3DS
Skylanders: Trap Team PlayStation 3 , PlayStation 4 , Xbox 360 , Xbox One , Wii U , Nintendo 3DS
2015 Skylanders: SuperChargers PlayStation 3 , PlayStation 4 , Xbox 360 , Xbox One , Wii U
Skylanders: SuperChargers Racing Wii , Nintendo 3DS
2016 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered Windows , PlayStation 4 , Xbox One
2019 Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled PlayStation 4 , Xbox One , Nintendo Switch
2020 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered Windows , PlayStation 4 , Xbox One

Porting

year game Platform (s)
2003 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4th Windows
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
2004 Tony Hawk's Underground 2
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Mac OS X
Pitfall: The Lost Expedition Windows
Shrek 2: Team Action
2005 Madagascar
Fantastic 4
Tony Hawk's Underground
Ultimate Spider-Man
Gun
2006 Through the hedge
X-Men: The Official Game
Cars
2007 Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man: friend or foe
2008 Kung Fu Panda
007: Quantum of comfort Windows , Wii
2009 Kung Fu Panda Mac OS X
Transformers: The Revenge Windows
2013 Skylanders: Swap Force Wii
2015 Call of Duty: Black Ops III PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360
2018 Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Windows
2019 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Windows

Individual evidence

  1. Activision - Blizzard: Activision Establishes Development Foothold in Quebec With Acquisition of Beenox Studios. In: investor.activision.com. May 25, 2005, accessed October 17, 2015 .
  2. a b Beenox - Wiki - BoardGameGeek. In: boardgamegeek.com. Retrieved October 17, 2015 .
  3. Benjamin Jakobs: Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is also available for Xbox 360 and PS3. In: eurogamer.de. June 10, 2015, accessed October 17, 2015 .
  4. ^ Beenox Studios - GamesIndustry.biz. In: gamesindustry.biz. Retrieved October 17, 2015 .