People Can Fly

Overview

People Can Fly is a studio based in Warsaw, Poland. In 2002 Adrian Chmielarz left Metropolis to create a development team with a bigger reach. Creator of titles such as Teenagent and Gorky 17, he set up a team of about 40 people and started working on a new title. A few months later, the work of People Can Fly was appreciated by Canadian publisher, Dreamcatcher Interactive who worked with PCF on Painkiller, which was released two years after the two first met. Painkiller was a huge success and used as the game of choice for a few e-sport tournaments like ESL or CPL.

Summer 2006 saw another release for the Painkiller franchise - Painkiller: Hell Wars. This was a Xbox port of the original Painkiller pc game, with the planned PlayStation 2 version being canceled. In 2007 and 2009 another two titles from the same franchise were made: Painkiller: Overdose and Painkiller: Resurrection respectively.

In 2007, after an unsuccessful relationship with THQ, Chmielarz's studio was appointed by Epic Games as a developer for the PC version of Gears of War. From that point, Epic Games bought a majority stake of the Polish developer's shares.

People Can Fly recently finished development on Bulletstorm, which is a first person shooter published by Electronic Arts for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. The game was released February 22nd in USA and February 25th in UK.