Warthog Games

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Warthog Games Limited was a UK-based video game developer, it is now known as Gizmondo Europe. Located in Cheadle, near Manchester with studios in Sweden and the USA.

1 Company Origins
- 1.1 Gizmondo
2 List of Games by Warthog

[edit] Company Origins

Warthog was founded in April 1997 and the core of the development team is comprised of ex-Electronic Arts personnel responsible for, amongst other titles, the hit Privateer: The Darkening. With this as the basis, Warthog began to develop something of a speciality in space-flight sims with follow-up titles Starlancer (which sold over 330,000 units, mainly on PC) and Star Trek: Invasion (achieving over 230,000 units on PlayStation). Since 1999, the company has also developed expertise in children's titles, with releases including Tom & Jerry, Looney Tunes, Harry Potter and Asterix.

During the creation of the company, Warthog purchased several other companies. First, in 2002, they purchased 42-Bit, which became Warthog Sweden. Then in 2003, they purchased U.S.-based Fever Pitch, which became Warthog Texas.

[edit] Gizmondo

In 2004, Warthog itself was acquired by Tiger Telematics and became a part of Gizmondo Studios, becoming known as Gizmondo Europe, with the recently acquired Warthog Texas becoming Gizmondo Texas. Their focus from then on would be on the Gizmondo handheld console. See Gizmondo for further game information.