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Black Bean Games was an Italian
video game publisher A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that have been developed either internally by the publisher or externally by a video game developer. They often finance the development, sometimes by paying a video game developer ( ...
based in
Gazzada Schianno Gazzada Schianno is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Varese in the Italy, Italian region Lombardy, located about northwest of Milan and about south of Varese. It is served by Gazzada-Schianno-Morazzone railway station. Gazzada Sch ...
in northern Italy, founded in 2004. Established as a European publishing arm of video game distributor Leader S.p.A., it was best known for publishing a number of racing games developed by
Milestone srl Milestone S.r.l. is an Italian video game developer based in Milan. Founded in 1994 by Antonio Farina, the studio specialises in racing games, especially motorcycle racing games. The company began under the name Graffiti, developing the car rac ...
, but their portfolio also included real strategy and family-oriented games. In 2006 the company signed a five-year
licensing A license (or licence) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit). A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another party (licensee) as an element of an agreeme ...
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Superbike World Championship Superbike World Championship (also known as WorldSBK, SBK, World Superbike, WSB, or WSBK) is a silhouette-class road racing series based on heavily modified production motorcycles, also known as superbike racing. The championship was founded i ...
'' (SBK) and ''
World Rally Championship The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is the highest level of global competition in the motorsport discipline of rallying, owned and governed by the FIA. There are separate championships for drivers, co-drivers, manufacturers and t ...
'' (WRC) video games."Licensing agreement of Black Bean Games with FGsport"
, from rtrsports.com website
The company published titles between 2005 and 2012, before merging with Milestone srl.


Games published

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Superstars V8 Racing ''Superstars V8 Racing'' is a car racing video game based on the 2008 Superstars Series season, 2008 season of the Italy-based Superstars Series and available for the Arcade game, arcade on 17 April 2009 and ported to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and M ...
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References

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