Luxoflux Corp.
Moby ID: 2145
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Luxoflux, headquartered in Santa Monica, California (USA), was started by Adrian Stephens and Peter Morawiec in January 1997.
Originally the intended company's name was "Alpha Channel," but it appeared that the name was already in use. By mixing syllables "Luxoflux" was found, a name that appeared to be meaningful ("movement of light").
Already after a year, early in 1998, Luxoflux's first game Vigilante 8 was completed with a small team of five persons. The game was successful and was ported to the Nintendo 64, and it was followed by a sequel Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense in 1999.
Around 2002, the company had a staff of circa thirty persons. Luxoflux and Activision had been collaborating since 1997 and in October 2002, while developing True Crime: Streets of LA, Luxoflux was acquired by Activision. Since then the company grew to over eighty people by 2008.
The studio's final game was Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen released in June 2009. On 11th February 2010 the Los Angeles Times reported that parent company Activision Blizzard laid off about 200 employees in different development studios, shutting down Luxoflux in the process. At that time the studio employed about 56 people and some of them were offered jobs at Treyarch, another Activision studio in Santa Monica.
Credited on 9 Games from 1998 to 2009
| Tony Hawk: Ride (2009 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii) |
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009 on Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) |
| Kung Fu Panda (2008 on Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360...) |
| True Crime: New York City (2005 on Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox...) |
| Shrek 2 (2004 on Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox...) |
| True Crime: Streets of LA (2003 on Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox...) |
| Star Wars: Demolition (2000 on PlayStation, Dreamcast) |
| Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense (1999 on PlayStation, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64) |
| Vigilante 8 (1998 on PlayStation, Nintendo 64) |
History +
- February 27, 2006
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Through the company website's jobs page, it is revealed that Luxoflux will no longer develop for PS2 and Xbox, and that their future titles will be for PS3 and Xbox 360 only.
- October 11, 2002
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Activision acquires the company.
- 1997
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Company founded by Peter Morawiec and Adrian Stephens in Santa Monica.
Trivia +
The company website was located at www.luxoflux.com
Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 9 games with Activision Publishing, Inc.
- 6 games with Activision Blizzard UK Ltd.
- 6 games with Activision Deutschland GmbH
- 5 games with NBG EDV Handels- und Verlags GmbH
- 5 games with ATVI France SARL
- 3 games with ak tronic Software & Services GmbH
- 3 games with 1C Company
- 3 games with Effective Media GmbH
- 2 games with Straylight Productions
- 2 games with EXAKT Entertainment, Inc.
- 8 games with Marilena Morini
- 8 games with Brian Clarke
- 6 games with Gary Bolduc
- 6 games with Adam Hartsfield
- 6 games with Bryant Bustamante
- 6 games with Jill Barry
- 6 games with Indra Yee
- 6 games with Adrian Stephens
- 6 games with Nadine Theuzillot
- 6 games with Michael Hill
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