High Impact Games was an American

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based in

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, formed in 2003 by former members of

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and

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. In 2007, the company released '' Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters'' for the

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, with a

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port released the next year, and ''

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'' in 2008, also for the PlayStation Portable. On November 3, 2009, the company released its third game, '' Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier'', for the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2. The game was based on the ''Jak & Daxter'' series made by

. In 2010, High Impact Games was developing a

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of ''Crash Team Racing'' for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii, but the game was canceled by

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before the prototype initial. In 2011 an environmental artist, who had worked on some games, revealed that High Impact Games was working on a new project for the

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. This game was revealed to be '' Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension''.

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