Silicon Knights
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| legal form | Private company |
| founding | 1992 |
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St. Catharines , Ontario Canada
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| Number of employees | less than 5 |
| Website | SiliconKnights.com (Internet Archive) |
Silicon Knights was a Canadian video game developer founded by Denis Dyack in 1992 . The company is based in St. Catharines , Ontario . In recent years more and more employees left the company due to dissatisfaction with the management, which is why the studio was ultimately no longer able to ensure the quality of its software. In addition, the studio was sentenced in 2012 after a legal dispute with Epic Games to a compensation payment of 4.5 million dollars and was ordered by the court to stop selling all games based on Unreal Engine 3 and destroy their source code. As a result, the studio went bankrupt in May 2014.
Developed games
- Cyber Empires ( 1992 )
- Fantasy Empires ( 1993 )
- Dark Legions ( 1994 )
- Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain ( 1996 ) (Sony PlayStation , PC )
- Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem ( 2002 ) (Nintendo GameCube )
- Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes ( 2004 ) (Nintendo GameCube)
- Too Human ( Xbox 360 )
Discontinued games
- The Ritualyst (for SEGA, targeted for 2008) ( Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 )
- Two " Too Human " successors
literature
- Silicon Knights In: Winnie Forster : Lexicon of computer and video game makers. First edition, p. 289. ISBN 978-3-00-021584-1 .