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Capcom Game Studio Vancouver, Inc.[2] (formerly Blue Castle Games Inc.), more commonly known as Capcom Vancouver, was a Canadian video game developer owned by Capcom with minority stake partnership by Microsoft Studios.[3] As Blue Castle Games, the company was the creator of several successful baseball sports video games, including The Bigs, MLB Front Office Manager and The Bigs 2. They have also developed the Dead Rising series.[4][5][6] Blue Castle Games was acquired by Capcom after the release of Dead Rising 2, and renamed Capcom Vancouver, where they continued to work on the Dead Rising series.[7][8] Capcom announced the closure of the studio in September 2018, cancelling Dead Rising 5 and moving other development to their Japan-based studios.
Formerly | Blue Castle Games Inc. (2005–2010) |
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Company type | Subsidiary |
Industry | Video games |
Founded | July 4, 2004; 19 years ago (2004-07-04) |
Founder | Robert Barrett |
Defunct | September 18, 2018; 5 years ago (2018-09-18) |
Fate | Defunct |
Successor | The Coalition |
Headquarters | , |
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Products | Dead Rising series |
Number of employees | 200[1] (2018) |
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Website | www |