This is not Activision's fault. It's the fault of you guys who didn't buy Blur. 
 
They spent a bunch of money making a new IP and got burned. It's no wonder they just want to make Call of Duty and Guitar Hero forever.

Can't say I was a fan of Bizarre Creations but at the same time it's sad for the fans of Project Gotham Racing as that's a well known racing series. I wonder what will happen to that IP, does Activision own it or Bizarre? 

" This is not Activision's fault. It's the fault of you guys who didn't buy Blur.  They spent a bunch of money making a new IP and got burned. It's no wonder they just want to make Call of Duty and Guitar Hero forever. "

this sucks i loved blur and its sad that we wont see another anytime soon. yea im not a huge fan of activision, but it seems this was a financial move that makes sense even though it sucks, loosing money is a tough thing to stand by. lets hope blur 2 will some how be djjug up in the future.

Hope to hell that Microsoft buys them they need the talent to go forward

I can't speak for other countries, but I am pretty sure here in the UK, they put fuck all money into marketing Blur. So in that respect, yes I think it is Activision's fault to a degree.

In my opinion it's a great game though, which makes it a shame.

You know what Activision?  Fuck you.... FUCK... YOU! 
 
Been a fan of these guys since Metropolis Street Racer on the Dreamcast.  I want Bobby Koteck's head on a pike for this!

" By "statutory redundancy", do they mean "mandatory layoffs"? Companies need to stop being so fucking cryptic and just say what they're doing. It's even worse than "human resources", when they mean "Personel".   "        

I wish the best for all the Bizzare Creations staff.

should they go back to microsoft now?

So, Budcat Creations was also closed today.

Activision and EA, ruining creative games for years to come.

We only have ourselves to blame. If they would've made Call of Duty: Racing then people would've bought their games.

i really hope they got bought out by a good company or something, i feel sorry for all the workers, they did make reallly good games, activision and EA are just corporate assholes

Everything is closing. Videogames themselves are in the height of sales yet so many studios are closing or being sold this year. It's quite sad.

" You know what Activision?  Fuck you.... FUCK... YOU!  Been a fan of these guys since Metropolis Street Racer on the Dreamcast.  I want Bobby Koteck's head on a pike for this! "

GEOMETRY WARS NNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

No Geometry Wars 3 fucking sucks.

shame i always loved msr

" Activision and EA, ruining creative games for years to come. "

I would like to wish all the best to Bizarre Creations and would also like to say FUCK YOU to Activision.

I was genuinely upset when I heard about this news - Bizarre have created games from way back and they've been with me since my gaming life. I wish all at Bizarre Creations all the best and hope they find gainful employment out of all this.
 
As for Activision - fuck you.

But... they made geometry wars...

really unfourtunate

"  Activision Blizzard aren't making enough money from world of warcraft and COD to keep a great studio like Bizzare creations running? Seriously! What The Fuck?. I mean EA Fired some people from Various Studios, but they did not shut it down altogether. Jesus Christ!      "

Not surprising in the least since Bobby only likes what makes Bobby substantial amounts of money.  
 
That, and gamers kind of screw themselves over when everyone only buys sequels. All of these closures is just the beginning of what will turn into a market that contains a handful of developers that are being milked by 2-3 mega publishers for blockbuster cookie cutters and sequels. 
 
Until gamers start buying into "new" games again, I doubt we're going to see any of this stop. Maybe if games didn't cost an arm and a leg gamers would be more apt to try a new IP. That would of course mean developers stopped spending half the government's budget on a game but I think I could live with slightly lower production values for fresher material.

" We only have ourselves to blame. If they would've made Call of Duty: Racing then people would've bought their games. "

I bet Bizzare Creations are happy that they split from MS now. 
Well, I can't say this is unexpected. When I first heard about Blur I thought it was just stupid. Then I played it and it was pretty good but still thought it was stupid because no one will buy it. For those that the gameplay would appeal to, the style won't and vice versa. 
And when I head that they are making a Bond racing game(first rumors were that it was a pure racing game) I've lost all respect I had for that studio. 
 
Also, to those who say that Microsoft should buy them. They won't. You might have heard about a little studio called Turn 10. MS doesn't need two racing game developers, especially when the one they don't own at the moment want to make really bad 3rd person action games and apparently according to their last game, can't make decent driving games eather(driving sections from Bloodstone or BS as I would like to call it).   

Also, after Bloodstone, I would have closed that studio down too. It was fucking horrible. And the Club was a abortion aswell. Blur is the only half way decent thing they have done since PGR4 and even that was just PGR3 - Now with Weather

" We only have ourselves to blame. If they would've made Call of Duty: Racing then people would've bought their games. "

Bummer. They were not setup for success by Activision

sad news.

Why is everyone on the internet always "fuck the corporate world, down with the man!"? Now I think Geowars is awesome, and yes, these big companies sometimes make decisions that I don't agree with, and seem heartless, and it's too bad this is happening, but come on. If I get a job anywhere, I am expected to perform. The fact is that obviously Bizarre didn't. Activision provides capital and expects a return on that. 
 
If I own a restaurant, and  my workers make shitty food, and people don't buy it, those people get fired, or the place gets closed. Just because a couple years ago the chefs made some kick-ass Geometry Wars Casserole doesn't  mean people want to eat my Bloodstone Pie, and guess what? All those 007 pie crusts are wasted money. Its still a business - people did not want their product, and neither did you. 
Still, I hope for the best for the Bizarre guys. 

I didn't like Blur or Bloodstone, but PGR4 and Geometry Wars were great :(

" FU ACTIVISION! "

I think the Wipeout guys are based in Liverpool but those are the only ones I can think of.  There will a lot of moving around required of people to find another job in the industry - lots of disruption.
 
It's very conceivable that there could be more Geometry Wars (except not by that name) coming out after this with that one main guy setting up his own indie studio - that would seem like quite a logical move and then he wouldn't even need to divert his attention elsewhere either.

Why did activation put bloodstone out a week before black ops? They set bizarre up to fail

I liked Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved. Too bad the other Geometry Wars titles never were ported to the PC. I would have bought them then, and I'm sure a bunch of other Steam users would've as well.

This is shit :(

WHAT THE FUCK?!
 
Blur may not have found a commercial success, but that's because Activision placed a shitty goddamn advertising campaign behind it.  The game was fucking great.  THEEEEEN, they ask them to make goddamn BLOOD STONE?!  WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT THAT WAS AN HONESTLY SOUND IDEA?!  Did they LOOK at Quantum of Solace?!
 
PGR has sold well over the years.  Geometry Wars has done well.  Bizarre even did good things with The Club, despite all the haters out there.  They happened to make an original IP...AN ORIGINAL IP...and now they get closed because it didn't do Call of Duty gangbusters or some shit?
 
Muthafucking Activision...*ugh*.  I hope Turn 10 takes on the staff and they turn Forza into a goddamn monolith!!!

Not Geometry Wars.
 
Not Geometry Wars!

shit,was thinking of buying blur, tought it sell well, are people still playing online?

" shit,was thinking of buying blur, tought it sell well, are people still playing online? "

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" FU ACTIVISION! "

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Utter bummer.

This is how Activision rolls. 
 
They buy up promising companys with successful games under their belt, bleed them dry then shut em the fuck down. Thanks Bobby Kotick... you're the best!

Holy fuck, Activision. 
 
First InfiniWard and now this? What are you thinking?!  The only reason Blur sucked is because they lost the PGR licence and had to build their own crap at Activision's discretion. So we ended up with MarioKart with real cars. I don't think Bizarre takes any significant blame here.

What the hell, Activision?! I love The Club and Blur and now you're just gonna trash the company down because they fail to make money for you? Don't blame them. Blame your lousy marketing strategy.