Luxoflux Corp. was an American

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founded by Peter Morawiec and Adrian Stephens in January 1997, and based in

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History

Luxoflux had a relatively small team size for its first few titles. The two founders plus Jeremy Engelman, David Goodrich and Edvard Toth created Luxoflux's first title ''

Vigilante 8 ''Vigilante 8'' is a vehicular combat video game developed by Luxoflux and published by Activision for PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color. Although officially it has no connection to the ''Interstate '76'' series, it features several o ...

''. The game was successful and was ported to the

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, and it was followed by a sequel '' Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense'' in 1999. In October 2002

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announced it had purchased Luxoflux, which at the time was working on '' True Crime: Streets of LA''. The studio delivered the game and its sequel, '' True Crime: New York City'', before working on licensed titles ''

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'' and '' Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen''. On February 11, 2010, Activision announced it was time to shut down the studio as part of a widespread staff reduction that also included the shuttering of Underground Development.

Games

Cancelled: King (2003 Videogame)

Isopod Labs

The original founders of Luxoflux eventually founded Isopod Labs and later announced '' Vigilante 8 Arcade'' that was released on

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in November 2008.

Games

*'' Vigilante 8 Arcade'' *''

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'' *''Keep Off My Hill''

References

External links

Archived Luxoflux pageIsopod Labs page
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