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Investigate this subjectFox Interactive was an American video game publisher based in Los Angeles, California that was active from May 1994 to 2006, when it was acquired by and folded into Vivendi Universal Games. The company published games based on 20th Century Fox properties such as The Simpsons and Die Hard, yet also published several original titles, such as Croc: Legend of the Gobbos and The Operative: No One Lives Forever.
Fox Interactive was an American video game publisher based in Los Angeles, California that was active from May 1994 to 2006, when it was acquired by and folded into Vivendi Universal Games. The company published games based on 20th Century Fox properties such as The Simpsons and Die Hard, yet also published several original titles, such as Croc: Legend of the Gobbos and The Operative: No One Lives Forever.
Fox Interactive was formed in May 1994, and was led by former Time Warner Interactive executive Ted Hoff. The first two games published by the new division were The Tick, based on the Fox Kids cartoon series of the same name, and The Pagemaster, based on the film of the same name.
On January 5, 1996, the company announced the release of Die Hard Trilogy for an August–September 1996 release window. On March 21, 1996, Fox Interactive signed a deal with Electronic Arts (EA) for distribution of their titles outside North America. The company would attend their first Electronic Entertainment Expo in 1996, and announced six mainstream titles during the event: The Simpsons Cartoon Studio, The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield and The X-Files for Windows and Macintosh, Aliens Versus Predator and Independence Day for PlayStation, Sega Saturn and Windows, and The Tick for PlayStation and Sega Saturn, alongside the already announced Die Hard Trilogy. The company also announced the launch of the Fox Toons Interactive label, consisting of educational games for Windows and Macintosh based on licensed properties, with the first five titles: Baby Felix, Hello Kitty Big Fun, Eekstravaganza, The Tick and Keroppi being released within a Fall release window. In November 1996, the company announced the release of a CD-ROM based on Romeo + Juliet for December.
In February 1997, the company announced a video game based on Alien Resurrection for the PlayStation, Sega Saturn and PC, and two CD-ROM tie-in titles - The X-Files: Data Files, and Anastasia, based on the 1997 movie. In the same month, the company announced major marketing plans for Independence Day before the game's release on March 11 in the United States, including a multi-million dollar ad campaign. In April, the Fox Toons Interactive division announced the release of four more titles: Baby Felix Creativity Center, Hello Kitty Creativity Center, Danny and the Dinosaur and Frog and Toad are Friends, the latter two based on children's books. In May, Fox Interactive announced the acquisition of the publishing rights to Argonaut Software's Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, and announced to showcase it at E3 1997. During E3 in June, in addition to the previously announced titles, the Aliens Versus Predator title was announced for an Early 1998 release. The only newly announced title at E3 that year for the publisher was Aliens Online, developed by then-fellow News Corporation subsidiary Kesmai. On December 15, 1997, Fox Interactive formed a joint-venture with News Corporation's Fox Sports division and formed Fox Sports Interactive, which would be used to publish sports titles for consoles and computers. The company signed a long-term North American development agreement with Gremlin Interactive to re-name and publish some of the latter's Actua Sports titles for the North American market.
On April 15, 1998, the company announced to publish Gremlin's N20: Nitrous Oxide for the US market for a June 1998 release. The first two republished Actua Sports titles were also announced for the same release window - Fox Sports Soccer '99 and Fox Sports Golf '99. During E3 1998, the company acquired the rights to two more Gremlin titles - Team Losi: RC Racer and Motorhead, as well as also announcing Croc 2 for PlayStation and Windows, and Virtual K'Nex for CD-ROM. Other titles showcased included Aliens Versus Predator and several Fox Sports titles. In August, the company announced the CD-ROM title James Cameron's Titanic Explorer, based on the film of the same name. In November 1998, the company delayed the releases of Alien Resurrection and Croc 2 to Mid-1999.
In May 1999, during E3, the company announced Activision as the exclusive worldwide distributor of Fox Sports Interactive titles in Europe, Asia and Africa, excluding Japan. Fox would continue to distribute and publish the titles in North America and Japan, and would not affect EA's existing worldwide distribution deal with Fox's non-Sports titles. During the event, the company announced Die Hard Trilogy 2 and a video game based on Planet of the Apes., in addition to Croc 2 and Fox Sports Interactive title Fox Sports Pro Baseball 2000 . In July, a Game Boy Color version of Croc was announced for a Winter 1999 release window. In August 1999, the company was announced to be publishing two titles from Monolith Productions: Sanity: Aiken's Artifact, and The Operative: No One Lives Forever. On the same day, the company announced plans to release games for the PlayStation 2. In September 1999, the company announced to support the Dreamcast, announcing versions of Croc 2 and Planet of the Apes for the system, and a game based on World's Scariest Police Chases tentatively titled World's Scariest Police Chases: Deadly Pursuit.
On March 16, 2000, it was announced that THQ would publish the Game Boy Color version of Croc under license from Fox. In April, the company's Dreamcast games would be released at the end of 2000. and within the same month announced a full worldwide publishing deal with THQ for the company's Game Boy Color titles, with the additions of games based on The Simpsons, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aliens and Croc 2 in addition to the already announced Croc title. At E3 2000, in addition to several previously announced titles, the company announced Buffy the Vampire Slayer and World's Scariest Police Chases for the PlayStation, Dreamcast and Windows, and The Simpsons Wrestling and Titan AE for PlayStation. Dreamcast ports of Alien Resurrection and Sanity: Aiken's Artifact were announced, alongside the company's fi
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