Black Isle Studios
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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.
Company type | Subsidiary In Name Only Unit of Interplay since original shut down in 2003 |
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Industry | Video games |
Founded | 1996; 28 years ago (1996) |
Founder | Feargus Urquhart |
Successor | Obsidian Entertainment |
Headquarters | , |
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) [lower-alpha 1] |
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]