Black Rock Studio

Overview

• Industryvideo game industry¹
• HeadquartersBrighton¹
• Websitewww.disney.co.uk/disneyinteractivestudios/blackrockstudio
• Legal formsubsidiary company¹

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Black Rock Studio Limited was a British video game developer based in Brighton, England. It was a division of Disney Interactive Studios. The studio was founded by Tony Beckwith in 1998 as Pixel Planet. It was acquired by the Climax Group in 1999 and was renamed Climax Brighton. In 2004, it became Climax Racing, as the Climax Group rebranded its studios. On 28 September 2006, it was acquired by DIS (formerly known as Buena Vista Games in that time) and was eventually renamed Black Rock Studio in 2007. The last game the studio developed for the Climax Group was MotoGP '07, which was completed after its acquisition by Buena Vista Games. The name is derived from a district in Brighton. In early 2011, the company faced lay-offs and was forced to abandon sequels for Pure and Split/Second: Velocity. Despite good reviews for both games, Disney turned down both sequels to focus on freemium content.²

Corporate structure

Black Rock Studio is part of a group headed by The Walt Disney Company. 349 entities, 33 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 of annual reports filed with the SEC; subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

• Disney Interactive Studios

Owners

• The Walt Disney Company

From Wikidata.¹

Timeline

1. 2011Dissolved Dissolved¹
2. 1998Founded Founded¹

Links

• Websitewww.disney.co.uk/disneyinteractivestudios/blackrockstudio¹
• WikipediaBlack Rock Studio
• WikidataQ672664