Climax Online
Moby ID: 3686
- Climax Nottingham (from 2000-06-12 to 2004-11-29)
- Anthill Studios (from 1998 to 2000-06-12)
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The company was founded as Anthill Studios in 1998 by Paul Carruthers. It was acquired by The Climax Group in June 2000 and renamed Climax Nottingham.
On 24th April 2001 it was announced 20 developers of the defunct studio Charybdis Limited would join Climax Online to finish Magic & Mayhem: The Art of Magic.
The team created the massively multiplayer online engine Leviathan and in 2002 a joint venture with Games Workshop Ltd. was established to create the MMORPG Warhammer Online (released in 2008 as Warhammer Online: The Age of Reckoning by Mythic Entertainment). The project was officially cancelled at Climax in 2004 as Games Workshop Ltd., which had the license, determined the costs would be too high. In June 2004 it became known the team had started work on a second game based on the Leviathan engine and in November 2004 the company was re-branded Climax Online.
The cancellation of a title they had been working on for more than two years shook the team and compromises had to be made to keep everyone employed. Most of the developers were transferred to work on MotoGP: Ultimate Racing Technology 3 and as soon as the project was finished, the studio as a whole was done for. A very small team was kept aboard to find funding for the Leviathan engine, while more than 20 people were let go around September 2005.
In October it became known certain developers of the division had founded Monumental Games Ltd.
Credited on 4 Games from 1999 to 2005
| MotoGP: Ultimate Racing Technology 3 (2005 on Windows, Xbox) |
| Hot Wheels: World Race (2003 on Windows, PlayStation 2, GameCube) |
| Magic & Mayhem: The Art of Magic (2001 on Windows) |
| Archipelagos 2000 (1999 on Windows) |
History +
- September 2005
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The division is closed and most of the employees are let go.
- November 29, 2004
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Climax Nottingham is re-branded Climax Online.
- June 21, 2004
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The Warhammer Online project is cancelled when Games Workshop determined that the roll-out costs would be too expensive.
- June 12, 2000
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Anthill Studios is acquired by The Climax Group and renamed Climax Notthingham.
- 1998
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Anthill Studios founded by Paul Carruthers.
Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 2 games with Black Rock Studio
- 2 games with Mastertronic Games Ltd.
- 2 games with THQ (UK) Limited
- 2 games with THQ Inc.
- 1 game with Charybdis Limited
- 1 game with Avalon Interactive
- 1 game with Rockett Music Ltd.
- 1 game with THQ France
- 1 game with Alltainment IT GmbH
- 1 game with p.o.s. telesales & promotion service GmbH
- 2 games with Paul Carruthers
- 2 games with Monica Vallejo
- 2 games with Philip Holt
- 2 games with Iain Riches
- 2 games with Nick Baynes
- 2 games with Tony Beckwith
- 2 games with Ben McGrath
- 2 games with Greg Michael
- 2 games with Jack Sorensen
- 2 games with Guy Mills
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