Warthog Games Limited

Warthog Games Limited is a UK-based video game developer. Located in Cheadle, near Manchester with studios in Sweden and the USA.

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Company Orgins

Warthog was founded in April 1997 and the core of the development team comprise ex-Electronic Arts personnel responsible for, amongst titles, the hit Privateer: The Darkening. With this as the basis, Warthog began to develop something of a speciality in space flight sims with follow-up titles Starlancer (which sold over 330,000 units, mainly on PC) and Star Trek: Invasion (achieving over 230,000 units on PlayStation). Since 1999, the Company has also developed expertise in children's titles, with releases including Tom & Jerry, Loony Tunes, Harry Potter and Asterix.

During the creation of the company, Warthog has purchased several companies. First, in 2002 they purchased 42-Bit, which has become Warthog Sweden. Then in 2003, they purchased the US based company, Fever Pitch, which then became Warthog Texas.

List of Games by Warthog

Gameboy Color

  • Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Saves the Day

Gameboy Advance

  • Looney Tunes: Back in Action
  • Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Stackers

GameCube

PC

  • Animaniacs: The Great Edgar Hunt (as of yet unreleased)
  • Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter
  • Rally Championship Xtreme
  • X10

Playstation

Playstation 2

XBox

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