Fox Interactive

Fox Interactive

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Former type	Subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Games
Industry	Software & Programming
Fate	Closed
Founded	1994
Defunct	2006
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, United States
Owner	News Corporation (1994–2003) Vivendi (2003–2006)
Parent	20th Century Fox (1994–2003) Vivendi Games (2003–2006)

Fox Interactive was a video game publisher and developer mainly concerned with titles based on 20th Century Fox properties, such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, the Alien and Predator 2, and The Operative: No One Lives Forever , Predator film franchises, Independence Day, Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, 24, the first two Ice Age films, the Die Hard series of films and others made by 20th Century Fox. They have also been involved with original titles, including Croc: Legend of the Gobbos.

History

Fox Interactive was formed in December 1994 and was an operating unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment, a News Corporation company. The company published, developed and produced games mainly for titles based on 20th Century Fox film and movie properties.

Their first two games were The Pagemaster, based on the film of the same name, and The Tick, based on the Fox Kids cartoon series of the same name. Fox Interactive released both arcade games, Die Hard Arcade and The Simpsons Bowling. The company became most well known for its Croc, Aliens vs. Predator, Die Hard and Charmed games.

In March 2003, Fox Interactive was acquired by Vivendi Universal Games and closed down in 2006. Future Fox Interactive games are now published by Fox Digital Entertainment or other 3rd party companies.

List of video games developed

Title	Release Date	Platform
The Tick	1994	Super NES, Sega Genesis
The Pagemaster	1994	Super NES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy
Alien Trilogy	1995	PlayStation, Sega Saturn, MS-DOS
Die Hard Arcade	1996	Arcade, Sega Saturn
Die Hard Trilogy	1996	PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Windows
The Simpsons: Cartoon Studio	1996	Windows, Mac OS
Independence Day	1997	PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Windows
The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield	1997	Windows
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos	1997	PlayStation, Game Boy Color, Sega Saturn, Windows
James Cameron's Titanic Explorer	1997	Windows, Macintosh
Anastasia: Adventures with Pooka and Bartok	1997	Windows, Macintosh
FOX Sports Soccer 99	1998	PlayStation
Icebreaker	1998	Windows
Fox Sports Golf '99	1998	Windows, PlayStation
Fox Sports College Hoops '99	1998	Nintendo 64
The X-Files Game	1998	Windows, Macintosh, PlayStation
Motorhead	1998	PlayStation, Windows
Team Losi RC Racer	1998	PlayStation
N2O: Nitrous Oxide	1998	PlayStation
FOX Sports Golf	1998	PlayStation
Fox Sports NBA Championship 2000	1999	Windows
NBA Basketball 2000	1999	PlayStation, Windows
Sci-Fi Pinball	1999	Windows, Macintosh
NHL Championship 2000	1999	PlayStation, Windows
The Simpsons: Cartoon Studio	1999 (re-release)	Windows, Macintosh
Alien Resurrection	1999	PlayStation, Windows
Alien vs. Predator	1999	Windows, Macintosh
Croc 2	1999	PlayStation, Game Boy Color, Windows
Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas	2000	PlayStation, Windows
Sanity: Aiken's Artifact	2000	Windows
King of the Hill	2000	Windows, Macintosh
The Simpsons Bowling	2000	Arcade
The Operative: No One Lives Forever	2000	PlayStation 2, Windows, Mac OS X
World's Scariest Police Chases	2001	PlayStation, Windows
Planet of the Apes	2001	PlayStation, Windows
The Simpsons: Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror	2001	Game Boy Color
The Simpsons Wrestling	2001	PlayStation
The Simpsons: Road Rage	2001	PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Xbox
Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza	2002	Windows
Aliens versus Predator 2	2002	Windows
No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way	2002	Mac OS X, Windows
The Simpsons Skateboarding	2002	PlayStation 2
Ice Age	2002	Game Boy Advance
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	2002	Xbox
Die Hard: Vendetta	2002	PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube
Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction	2003	PlayStation 2
The Simpsons: Hit & Run	2003	PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Windows
The X-Files: Resist or Serve	2004	PlayStation 2
Robots	2005	PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Windows, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS
Predator: Concrete Jungle	2005	PlayStation 2, Xbox
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown	2006	PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Windows, Wii, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS

References

20th Century Fox, Fox Video Games, Inc.