Subsidiary In Name Only Unit of Interplay since original shut down in 2003
Industry
Video games
Founded
1996; 28 years ago (1996)
Founder
Feargus Urquhart
Successor
Obsidian Entertainment
Headquarters
Irvine, California
,
U.S.
Key people
Feargus Urquhart, Chris Avellone, Josh Sawyer, Darren Monahan, Chris Parker
Parent
Interplay Entertainment
Website
www.blackisle.com at the Wayback Machine (archived November 5, 2014)
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Black Isle Studios is a division of the developer and publisher Interplay Entertainment formed in 1996 that develops role-playing video games. It has published several games from other developers.
Black Isle is based in Irvine, California.[1] The idea for the division's name came from the Black Isle in Scotland – founder Feargus Urquhart's ancestral country.[2] Black Isle Studios is most famous for its work on the Fallout series as well as the critically acclaimed Planescape: Torment. They achieved success with the Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate series of role-playing video games, though they only published the Baldur's Gate series. In 1999, IGN's RPG Vault gave it the award for a Developer of the Year.[3] The company was closed in late 2003 due to Interplay's financial troubles.[4]
Interplay briefly revived the Black Isle name in August 2012 with the intention of producing new role-playing games under that label.[5][6] Black Isle Studios released Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance remastered in May 2021.[7]
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^Keefer, John (January 2001). "Black Isle Studios: We are not BioWare". GameSpy. Archived from the original on 2004-12-11. Retrieved 2006-06-25.
^1999 Vault Network Awards
^Thorsen, Tor (2003-12-08). "Interplay shuts down Black Isle Studios". GameSpot. Archived from the original on 2006-06-13. Retrieved May 1, 2006.
^Sarkar, Samit (8 August 2012). "Black Isle Studios is back in name only". Polygon. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
^"Games – Page 83 – Black Gate". 23 October 2012. Archived from the original on 3 July 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
^"Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 Re-Release is "On the Table" – Black Isle Studios". Archived from the original on 2022-07-22. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
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