Radical Entertainment is a video game developer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 1991 and previously developed games for game publishers such as Microsoft and Fox Interactive. It is an entirely owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard after being acquired by Vivendi Games in 2005. The studio, being the oldest gaming studio in British Columbia, is often referred to as backbone of the gaming industry in Vancouver.
The company is known for developing Scarface: The World Is Yours and Crash: Mind over Mutant. The largest fan source, however, comes from their first original title Prototype. Their motto is Play, Work, Live, Breathe, Games.
The studio suffered massive layoffs on June 28, 2012 and suffered partial closure, being left with the inability to produce original games but rather being limited to support work on other Activision titles. The layoffs at Radical were attributed to the fall of the video game design market in Vancouver, which had been said to be the "undisputed centre of the Canadian video game industry". The studio, however, later confirmed the layoffs to not be as severe as reported.
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“What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)