Core Design Ltd.

Name: Core Design Ltd. Established: 1988 Status: Closed Links: Official site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Design Submitter: Dragonman4 Score: 10 points Added: Jun 22 2006

Core Design was a video game developer best known for creating the popular Tomb Raider series.

The studio was based in Derby, a city in the United Kingdom. It was owned by Eidos Interactive, having been part of distribution company CentreGold when it was acquired by Eidos in 1996. Eidos subsequently sold most of CentreGold, but retained Core Design.

On May 11, 2006 it was announced that Core's assets and staff were sold to indie development group Rebellion. Eidos still owns the Core brand but it's unlikley there will be anymore new games under the Core Design banner, however an 'Atari'-like regeneration of the name and rebranding of existing games is not unexpected (see Infogrames)

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. The success of Tomb Raider and its subsequent sequels played a huge part in keeping Eidos Interactive financially solvent. In 2003, however, parent company Eidos took the Tomb Raider franchise away from Core Design after the sixth installment, Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, which was not as big a commercial success as expected. The franchise was given to Crystal Dynamics, another Eidos-owned studio. 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 one has subsequently returned to Core.

Name	System	Genre
Chuck Rock	SNES	Action
Tomb Raider II: The Dagger of Xian	PC	Action
Fighting Force	PC	Action
Universe	PC	Adventure
Thunderhawk 2: Firestorm (a.k.a. Thunderstrike 2)	PC	Simulation

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