Neversoft
| Neversoft | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Activision subsidiary |
| founding | 1994 |
| resolution | 2014 |
| Reason for dissolution | Merger with Infinity Ward |
| Seat |
Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) , United States
|
| Branch | Software development |
| Website | neversoft.com ( Memento of October 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) |
Neversoft was a game development company founded in June 1994 by Joel Jewett, Mick West and Chris Ward . She was best known for the Tony Hawk video game series, parts of which were published by Activision . In 1999 the company was bought by Activision.
Since 2007 they have been developing several parts of the successful Guitar Hero music game series . Sales of the third installment in the series, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock alone , amount to over a billion US dollars. In January 2009 it was announced that Neversoft would give up the development of further parts of the Tony Hawk's series and concentrate entirely on the Guitar Hero series.
Due to the poor sales results of Guitar Hero , Activision announced in February 2010 that Neversoft had to lay off employees.
Neversoft develops their games for PC , Playstation , GameCube , Xbox , Wii , Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 , Game Boy Advance , DS and PSP .
In 2014 it was announced that Neversoft and Infinity Ward would be merged and that Neversoft would no longer exist as a game development company.
Games
- 1996: Skeleton Warriors
- 1998: MDK (ported to PlayStation )
- 1998: Apocalypse
- 1999: Tony Hawk's Skateboarding (outside Europe title: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater )
- 2000: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
- 2000: Spider-Man
- 2001: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
- 2002: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
- 2003: Tony Hawk's Underground
- 2004: Tony Hawk's Underground 2
- 2005: GUN
- 2005: Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
- 2006: Tony Hawk's Project 8
- 2007: Tony Hawk's Proving Ground
- 2007: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
- 2008: Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
- 2008: Guitar Hero: World Tour
- 2009: Guitar Hero: Metallica
- 2009: Guitar Hero 5
- 2009: Band Hero
- 2010: Guitar Hero 6: Warriors of Rock
- 2013: Call of Duty: Ghosts
Web links
- neversoft.com ( October 8, 2014 memento on the Internet Archive ) Company website
- Neversoft at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ taz.de: The music industry is testing new sales channels: Virtual headbanging . January 13, 2009.
- ↑ Gamasutra: Neversoft Exits Tony Hawk Franchise . January 12, 2009.
- ↑ Golem.de : Final chord for Red Octane: Guitar Hero makers closed