United Front Games

Information from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia—a reliable source for your research. Click to cite:
Jump to: navigation, search
United Front Games, Inc.
Type Independent
Industry Computer and video games
Interactive entertainment
Founded 2007
Headquarters Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Key people Stephen van der Mescht1
Products ModNation Racers
Sleeping Dogs
Website www.unitedfrontgames.com

United Front Games is a Canadian development studio based in Vancouver. They currently create titles for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows. They are the developers of ModNation Racers.2

The studio consists of former members of EA Black Box, Rockstar Vancouver, Radical Entertainment and Volition, Inc., all of which made video games with an open world setting.

History

United Front Games was founded in 2007. Its first official title ModNation Racers, a "User-Generated Content" kart racing game, began production in 2008 and was released on May 21, 2010 in some countries and on May 25, 2010 in the US.

On August 14, 2012, they released Sleeping Dogs (previously known as True Crime: Hong Kong), which is a spiritual successor to the True Crime series. United Front Games also made LittleBigPlanet Karting with help from the series creators Media Molecule.

Games

Name Year Platform(s) Published by
ModNation Racers 2010 PlayStation 3 Sony Computer Entertainment
Sleeping Dogs 2012 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows Square Enix
LittleBigPlanet Karting 2012 PlayStation 3 Sony Computer Entertainment

References

  1. ^ Usher, William (2009-12-14). "True Crime Prepping To Redefine Open-World Action In Fall 2010". Cinema Blend. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
  2. ^ "United Front Games Official Website". Retrieved 2012-08-31. 


Content from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

What Is This Site? The Ultimate Study Guide is a mirror of English Wikipedia. It exists in order to provide Wikipedia content to those who are unable to access the main Wikipedia site due to draconian government, employer, or school restrictions. The site displays all the text content from Wikipedia. Our sponsors generously cover part of the cost of hosting this site, and their ads are shown as part of this agreement. We regret that we are unable to display certain controversial images on some pages the site at the request of the sponsors. If you need to see images which we are unable to show, we encourage you to view Wikipedia directly if possible, and apologize for this inconvenience.

A product of XPR Content Systems. 47 Union St #9K, Grand Falls-Windsor NL A2A 2C9 CANADA