Sperry founded Westwood Associates in Las Vegas, Nevada. Westwood Studios Command & Conquer (1995) Many game franchises created by Bullfrog would later be rebooted under EA, but we’ll get to that later. Other employees of Bullfrog would go on to form other studios such as Mucky Foot Productions ( Blade II) and Media Molecule ( LittleBigPlanet). The final title to bear the company’s logo was Theme Park Inc. In 2001, Bullfrog was merged into EA UK, effectively ending its existence. Edgar became Vice President of the European studios and Bullfrog’s Chairman, but stepped down in 1999.īullfrog tried developing Genesis: The Hand of God and Dungeon Keeper 3 but both projects were cancelled. He would go on to found Lionhead Studios before moving on from that to 22Cans. Molyneux was made Vice President of Electronic Arts and head of their European studio, but after growing frustrated with the position he decided to resign in July 1996 according to GameSpot. Populous is especially important as many credit it with creating the “God game” genre.īullfrog had been a strategic partner with EA in designing and developing games for seven years before EA acquired them in January 1995, according to AllBusiness. Since then, they made a name for themselves creating smash hit games like Populous, Syndicate, Theme Park, and Dungeon Keeper. Games part of this wave of server shutdowns are also still available to purchase owing to their breadth of single-player content.UK-based Bullfrog Productions was founded in 1987 by Les Edgar and Peter Molyneux. Features like leaderboards or multiplayer game modes, however, will no longer be available.

It is worth noting that, since the games part of these shutdowns are primarily single-player titles, they will still be perfectly playable for most players. The online service shutdown page on EA’s website states that the decision was made to shut down these servers because less than 1% of peak online players across all EA titles were playing these games, and that it was no longer feasible for the company to continue supporting these games. While most of these games didn’t feature much in the way of multiplayer, Crysis 3 is a notable title in this list since it features several multiplayer game modes. Publisher EA has shut down the servers for some of its older titles, including Dead Space 2, Crysis 3, Dante’s Inferno, and Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, as caught by Pure Xbox.

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