Three years ago, Activision bought the makers of Project Gotham Racing, Bizarre Creations. Earlier this year, the fruit of their labor was released, the Mario Kart meets PGR racing game Blur. Blur did not do so well critically or financially, and now Activision has decided to either shut down the studio or put them up [...]
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Broke Gamer
June 27th, 2010
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Hey fellow Recessionites; the Broke Gamer is here to save your pennies from the evil clutches of “big business.” Or I’m just here to get you some cheap games, and today is a pretty excellent one. Bizarre Creations newly released power-up, combat racer Blur is the Video Game Deal of the Day over on Amazon. [...]
Blur Beta To Open To All Xbox Live Users
April 2nd, 2010
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From Kotaku: “We basically ran out of code, so next week we are going to go live with the whole thing publically so anyone can download it,” Wilson said. “We’ve been sneaking on to see what people think of it and people are really getting into it…” That’s a quote from Gareth Wilson from Bizarre [...]
Bullshot! 045 – Plachy Chose the Outro Music
March 12th, 2010
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Plachy is very worried that you won’t like the outro music — it’s “Our Holy Ghosts” by The Felix Culpa — but I kind of dig it. I’m being conversational here because that’s what happened this week. It was only Fish and Plachy; talking about video games.
Impressions: Blur Multiplayer Beta
March 9th, 2010
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Activision has begun the awkwardly titled Blur Multiplayer Beta Demo on Xbox 360. Basically, with the game two months from release it’s a closed demo, and while a web page is set up for beta testers to report any bugs or feedback, I have to imagine the only thing that may get tuned is the amount of XP per race or how much XP it takes to level up. Not the actual racing, cars, tracks, or power ups. Yes, power ups. Blur is Bizarre Creations’ attempt to merge realistic racing with the arcadey action of a Mario Kart game. Throw in a Call of Dutyesque leveling system complete with challenges to complete and you have what on paper sounds like a rock solid hit.
Activision Moves Blur to 2010
September 21st, 2009
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Activision has announced today that they will push Blur into an unspecified date in 2010. There is quite a glut of racing games this holiday, and maybe it wasn’t the best idea to push a new racing IP into the middle of all that. When we get word of a new release date we will [...]