ACES Game Studio
Moby ID: 46585
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ACES Game Studio was a development division of Microsoft Game Studios tasked with developing simulation games, primarily the Microsoft Flight Simulator and Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator franchises.
In 2000, the studio won the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences award in the Computer Simulation Game of the Year category for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000: Professional Edition.
On 22 January 2009, the studio was closed by Microsoft amid a global financial crisis that caused them to lay off thousands of employees company-wide.
Credited on 11 Games from 1999 to 2014
| Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition (2014 on Windows) |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006 on Windows) |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight (2003 on Windows) |
| Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe (2002 on Windows) |
| Blood Wake (2001 on Xbox) |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 (2001 on Windows) |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002: Professional Edition (2001 on Windows) |
| Microsoft Train Simulator (2001 on Windows) |
| Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2: WW II Pacific Theater (2000 on Windows) |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 (1999 on Windows) |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000: Professional Edition (1999 on Windows) |
History +
- January 22, 2009
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Microsoft Game Studios closes the company as part of the corporation-wide layoffs amid the global financial crisis.
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ACES Game Studio
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Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 10 games with Microsoft Corporation
- 7 games with TiVo Corporation
- 5 games with Xbox Game Studios
- 4 games with Volt Information Services, Inc.
- 4 games with Leader S.p.a.
- 3 games with astragon Sales & Services GmbH
- 3 games with Ubisoft Entertainment SA
- 3 games with Playman s.r.o.
- 3 games with Acer TWP Corp
- 2 games with Xplosiv
- 9 games with Hal Bryan
- 8 games with Brent Conklin
- 8 games with Michael Singer
- 8 games with Jon Stanley
- 8 games with Michael Lambert
- 8 games with Steve Wilson
- 8 games with Greg Swanson
- 8 games with Patrick Barker
- 7 games with Caitlin Sullivan
- 7 games with Brian Hunt
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