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Core Design
Type Private
Founded 1988
Headquarters Flag of the United Kingdom, Derby, United Kingdom
Key people See Below
Industry Computer and video game industry
Products Video games
Owner Rebellion_Developments

Core Design is a video game developer best known for creating the popular Tomb Raider series. The term privately held company refers to ownership of a business company in two different ways first referring to ownership by non-governmental organizations and second Derby (pronounced "dar-bee" /dˈɑːbɪ/ is a city in the East Midlands of England. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" The video game industry (formally referred to as Interactive entertainment) is the economic sector involved with the development, Marketing In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over Property, which may be an object, land/real estate, Intellectual property Rebellion is a British Computer games company based in Oxford, who are most famous for the first Aliens versus Predator computer game A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual that creates Video games A developer may specialize in a certain video Tomb Raider is a series of Action-adventure games comic books novels theme park rides and movies, centring around the adventures of the female Core Design was set up in 1988 by Chris Shrigley, Andy Green, Rob Toone, Terry Lloyd, Simon Phipps, Dave Pridmore, Jeremy Smith and Greg Holmes. Most were former employees of Gremlin Graphics. Gremlin Interactive was a British Software house based in Sheffield and working mostly in the Home computer market

The studio is based in Derby, a city in the United Kingdom. Derby (pronounced "dar-bee" /dˈɑːbɪ/ is a city in the East Midlands of England. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located It is owned by Eidos Interactive, having been part of distribution company CentreGold when it was acquired by Eidos in 1996. Eidos Interactive is a publisher of video and Computer games with its parent company based in England. CentreGold was a three-way partnership between two Video game publishers ( U Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Eidos subsequently sold most of CentreGold, but retained US Gold the owners of Core Design. US Gold was a British Video game publisher and developer from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s producing

Jeremy Smith resigned from Core Design on 15 July 2003. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. [1]

On May 11, 2006 it was announced that Core's assets and staff were sold to independent development group Rebellion. Events 330 - Byzantium is renamed ''Nova Roma'' during a dedication ceremony but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Rebellion is a British Computer games company based in Oxford, who are most famous for the first Aliens versus Predator computer game Eidos still owns the Core brand and IP, including those of Tomb Raider. Intellectual property ( IP) is a legal field that refers to creations of the mind such as musical literary and artistic works inventions and symbols names It is unlikely there will be any more new games under the Core Design banner, however an 'Atari'-like regeneration of the name and re-branding of existing games is possible (see Infogrames). Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. Infogrames Entertainment SA ( IESA) ( is an international Holding company headquartered in Villeurbanne, Lyon, France.

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Games

Core Design had developed numerous games, including the following titles:

Tomb Raider

The company is most widely known for the Tomb Raider series, created by Toby Gard and Paul Howard Douglas, which was released in 1996 and followed by several sequels. Banshee is a vertically scrolling 2D Shoot-em-up computer game that was released on Amiga A1200 and CD32 in 1994 by Core Design Bubba 'n' Stix is a 2-D side-scrolling platform game for the Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga and Amiga CD32 designed CarVup is a platform game released by Core Design in 1990 Gameplay involves controlling a cartoon-like car jumping from platform Chuck Rock is a Video game released for various Home computer and console systems and developed by Core Design. Corporation (Cyber-Cop in North America is a computer game for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga Curse of Enchantia is a Fantasy Point-and-click Adventure game with a limited Action-adventure game elements created by Fighting Force is a 1997 3D beat 'em up developed by Core Design and published by Eidos in the same lines of Free running is a physical art, in which participants (free runners use the urban and rural areas to perform movements through its structures focused on Heimdall is an action-adventure computer game developed by a team called The Eighth Day and published by Core Design for DOS, Amiga Hook is the name of four unrelated Video games released in 1992 that were based on the film of the same name. This article describes the video game Herdy Gerdy. For the Musical instrument with a similar name see Hurdy gurdy. For the anime see Dirty Pair. Project Eden is a Video game for the PC and PlayStation 2 released Rick Dangerous is a series of two Platform games released by Core Design (the makers of Tomb Raider) in the 1980s Soulstar is a pseudo 3D space shooter in a similar vein to Nintendo 's Star Fox, released in 1994 for the Sega Mega CD. Thunderhawk is a helicopter combat simulator game released by Core Design for the Amiga Atari ST and IBM PC (DOS in 1991, and for the Sega Mega-CD Tomb Raider is a series of Action-adventure games comic books novels theme park rides and movies, centring around the adventures of the female Universe is a graphical sci-fi futuristic Adventure game, originally released in 1994 and published by Core Design as their second (after Toby Gard is a Computer game character Designer and Consultant. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) The success of Tomb Raider and its subsequent sequels played a huge part in keeping Eidos Interactive financially solvent. Eidos Interactive is a publisher of video and Computer games with its parent company based in England. In 2003, however, parent company Eidos moved development of the Tomb Raider franchise from Core Design to Crystal Dynamics, another Eidos-owned studio,[2] after the sixth instalment, Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, was met with mixed reactions by reviewers and was not a large commercial success. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Crystal Dynamics is an American Video game developer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. This prompted three key members of the Core Design team to leave the company and establish a game development team of their own, Circle Studio. Circle Studio was a Video game developer located in Derby, United Kingdom. One employee has subsequently returned to Core.

Other titles

Core Design have continued developing games such as the PSP title Smart Bomb, which turned out to be a mass market title thus receiving criticism from reviewers. The PlayStation Portable (officially abbreviated PSP) is a Handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. Smart Bomb, also known as Smartbomb and Bombshell, is a timed puzzle Videogame for the PSP developed by Core Design Ltd This game was later tweaked and re-released in Asia where it garnered a much better reception.

Core staff are working with the Rebellion studio, starting work on a sequel to Shellshock.

Tomb Raider Anniversary

In June 2006 screenshots were released showing development of a PSP version of an anniversary edition of the original Tomb Raider, developed by Core Design. Days later, SCI, the by-now owners of Eidos Interactive, issued a press release announcing that Crystal Dynamics would be producing the game, rather than Core Design. [3]

Tomb Raider film royalties

When Paramount Pictures wanted to adapt Lara Croft's story for the big screen, it entered into negotiations with Core Design and Eidos. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. Lara Croft is a Fictional character and the protagonist of Eidos Interactive 's Tomb Raider video game series Eidos Interactive is a publisher of video and Computer games with its parent company based in England. Among other provisions, the contract is believed to have awarded Eidos only a few million dollars as a licensing fee, but no share of the film's takings. Core Design felt it was more important to secure merchandising rights over any share of box office takings.

Paramount Pictures invested $80m in making the film, which grossed over $130m in US box office alone (international box office grosses were between $250-300m). Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. It is unknown how many toys and other crossover merchandise were manufactured, nor how many were sold.

At the time the movie was released, there was some criticism that no tie-in game was planned for simultaneous release. This choice was explained by Core Design stating that they believed the mere appearance of a major motion picture based on a video game character would help sell further copies of the existing Tomb Raider titles—as indeed it did. Tomb Raider is a Video game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive.

Relationship with Sony

Core had a brief history of producing titles for the Sega consoles (Thunderhawk for Sega CD was arguably one of a handful of games that took advantage of the platform). is a multinational Video game Software and Hardware development company and a former Home computer The is an add-on device for the Sega Mega Drive that was released in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan. After the release of the original Tomb Raider, which had debuted on the Sega Saturn platform ahead of the PlayStation version (they had been developed simultaneously) Sony Computer Entertainment recognised the game's huge popularity and the potential mass appeal of future Tomb Raider titles. Tomb Raider is a Video game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. The is a 32-bit Video game console that was first released on November 22 1994 in Japan, May 11 1995 in North America The PlayStation (abbreviated PS, PSone, PS1, or informally as PSX) is a 32-bit fifth generation Video game console ( SCEI) is a Japanese Video game company specializing in a variety of areas in the video game industry mostly in Video game consoles and is a full They offered Core Design and Eidos Interactive an exclusivity agreement, to ensure that the first sequel would not be developed for either the Saturn or the N64. The, often abbreviated as N64, is Nintendo 's third home Video game console for the international market The full terms of this offer have never been revealed, but it is likely to have included either a lump sum cash offer, a reduction in the third-party royalty rate or a contractual cross-promotional agreement (perhaps even all three).

By making the PlayStation the only console with Tomb Raider II, Sony Computer Entertainment was able to benefit by attracting new PlayStation owners leveraging Tomb Raider as a killer application and using Lara Croft as a marketing character alongside Sony's own first party characters. Tomb Raider II is a Video game in the Tomb Raider series and is the Sequel to Tomb Raider. A killer application (commonly shortened to killer app) in the jargon of computer programmers and video gamers has been used to refer to any Computer program In the Video game industry, a first-party developer is a developer who is part of a company that actually manufactures a Video game console. Core Design also had the advantage of developing only for a single console, rather than several at once. This exclusivity agreement was further extended to cover the third game in the series. The fourth and fifth games in the franchise, Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation and Tomb Raider: Chronicles respectively, were also released for the Sega Dreamcast. Tomb Raider The Last Revelation is the fourth Video game in the Tomb Raider series Tomb Raider Chronicles is the fifth game in the Tomb Raider series and the Sequel to Tomb Raider The Last Revelation The is Sega 's most recent Video game console and the successor to the Sega Saturn.

References

  1. ^ Tomb Raider Co-Creator Steps Down | PS2 News | GamePro.com
  2. ^ BBC NEWS | England | Derbyshire | Lara leaves UK
  3. ^ PSP: Tomb Raider 10th Anniversary Edition Cancelled, Announced

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