Bye, Bizarre Creations.

FUCKING REALLY?!
 
This is bullshit.  A talented development studio like this, and there's not a single publisher that could've saved them?  Between PGR, Geometry Wars, and Blur, these guys...
 
...I just have no faith in the video game industry when shit like this is allowed to happen.

It's easy to dislike Activision but I'm sure no one held a gun to Bizarre's head 
and forced them to join their cult... or did they!?!  

Either way it's sad when this happens.

Dude Activision is the worst. I hope everyone there lands on their feet and finds work soon.

Farwell Bizzare.  I will always have a spot in my heart fro GW.   
 
Btw, fuck activision.

Always sad to see a studio go, especially one that's been doing this for some time, I hope they all go on and make great games. also sad to see hudson go too (the US part)

Really sad. Geometry Wars 2 is one of my favourite games ever and its makers sure should be making games right now!

major bummer... they made some pretty good stuff.

Fuck this is a sad day.

I loved me some pgr..... :(

Goodbye Bizarre, I'll miss future versions of Geometry Wars.

So how long until there is a mash up vid with Mad World as the music?

Man, sad news. I loved the PGR series. :(

Activision, as Ryan has already said, if you continue as you already are going you'll lose the trust of most, if not all, Developers and will start to see your reward reduce dramatically because the studio that is producing the "next big thing" won't want to work for you. 
 
They will only work with you ONLY if you change your ways and allow them to control when they make a sequel/if they make a sequel at all, or just make new and very different games instead. 
 
Money is all well and good in business, but loyalty from a youthful and freely-reigned horse/developer (as this metephor goes) will continue to nourish and prosper far better than smithing the horse/developer at both ends of his talents till there's nothing left except a tired and bitter shell. 
Nurture him/her, allow them freedom of choice, make sure they listen to suggestion but don't force their hands if they completely disagree with how you think their game should be changed. They know better than you for you are solely a man of the stock-market and they are the artists and video-game lovers of a long time. 
The work of happy passion filled people will increase your profits far more than secondary payed slavery. 
Leave the bees to their bonnet.

I was really into it until they showed The Club and... yeah.

fuck activision up their asses. They bought Bizarre to do F1 games, but were too fucking cheap/stupid to then actually acquire the license over Codemasters. 
 
Hopefully the industry will pick these talented people back up. They made some incredible games and essentially put XBLA on the map with geometry wars. 

PGR3 was the reason I bought a 360.  I will miss you guys @ Bizarre dearly. 
 
Kudos to you all and keep on being creative in whatever industries and endeavours you go to next.

I wish all of them the best of luck in the future.

I put hundreds of hours into PGR2 online. And no, I am not exaggerating.

One day with Microsoft the next with Activision and the next out of business!  I guess greedy companies got what they wanted from these great developer and then disposed of it like a $2 hooker.  Sad day....

Too all those who made great games only to get trampled under the greedy, short sighted foot of big business, raise a glass.
 
Also, yeah, as others have said, fuck Activision.

Fuck I hate Activisoin.

If they were so good they wouldn't be out of business.  Fact is their games didn't sell enough, and nobody wanted to buy them.

Pour one out

Nice but sad trailer. Farewell Bizarre.

Respect for being a Scouse developer.

Fuck the haters, PGR4 was awesome.  Drifting the old Grand Prix Maserati in the snow on the Nordschleife was the best.  Also the 288 Evoluzione, what an awesome car. 

This is the dumbest closure i have seen in awhile. Hopefully we will see their talents here and there in other games.

Rather frightening is that's my birth-year... Very sad for all at Bizarre, good luck to them all!

Oh Activision. I hope your business model will come and bite you in the ass.

It really sucks to see them go thanks to the underwhelming sales of Blur and lack of polish on yet another Bond game. Here's hoping they'll be reborn as some new studio.

wHY OH WHY OH DID YOU GO TO aCTIVISON! pgr WAS IN A CLASS OF ITS OWN. tHEY HAD SO MUCH MORE TO GIVE XBOX PLAYERS BUT INSTEAD WENT TO aCTIVISION AND WERE PUT ON GAMES TO APPEAL TO THE MASSES AND ALL THE PASSION WAS LOST FROM THEIR GAMES.
 
yEAH I HAD CAPSLOCKS ON BUT I'M TOO UPSET TO CARE

What? Noooo!

2/18/2011  
 
A Date which will live out in infamy . A Date in which our biggest threat, Activision killed a developer that was good. A date to say "F**k you Activision, F**k you to killing Bizzare Creations!". PGR, Geometry Wars, and Blur are gone but not forgotten. You have killed on of my favorite developer. After Black Ops, I will not buy another activison game again until the day Bobby Kotick dies of old age. 

they'll all get new jobs at other studios if they want them, but still sucks

sad day. =(
 
on another note, anyone know the name of the song playing in the video? i thought it was a really moving piece.

Good luck to the guys and girls that lost their jobs. But they're all obviously talented so fingers crossed it won't be too long for them

Good luck out there buddies - you're gonna need it =( 
 
Heres hoping they get to form something new or the talent gets spread out to other companies - would much rather these guys got to keep making their craft 

Fucking Activision.

Peace Bizarre, you will be missed.
 
Again, a big f-u to Activision for canning another brilliant developer.

There are few developers who understood the pursuit of the perfect score/time as well as Bizarre. 
 
Another perfectly competent team down the drain.

FUCK YOU Activision ! Thanks to you we see another great developer die bacuse they cant sell as much as Call of Duty even if they make more unique games than cod.
R.I.P Bizarre Creations  D:

Thank you for the dignified goodbye, Bizarre.

blur was phenominal .

I loved a majority of their games , I even bought PGR3 before the 360 launched .

What a waste . :(

Beautiful song to go with the montage.

RIP Bizarre, it was a great run. I hope from the bottom of my heart that each and every developer from bizarre finds a new job, a dream job and soon. Bizarre has achieved things other developers only aspire to and they deserve better. Good luck devs and God speed.