Fox Interactive

Fox Interactive

Former type	Subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Games
Industry	Software & Programming
Fate	Closed
Successor	Fox Digital Entertainment, Vivendi Universal Games
Founded	1994
Defunct	2006
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, United States
Products	The Simpsons series Croc series No One Lives Forever series Fox Sports games Die Hard series Aliens Versus Predator series
Parent	20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (1994-2003) Vivendi Universal Games (2003-2006)
Website	www.foxmovies.com/

Fox Interactive was a video game publisher and developer mainly concerned with titles based on 20th Century Fox properties.

History

Fox Interactive was formed in May 1994, headed by former Time Warner Interactive executive Ted Hoff, and was a division of Fox Video, the home media distribution part of 20th Century Fox.^[1] The company published games based on 20th Century Fox film and movie properties, as well as some original titles like Croc: Legend of the Gobbos.

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 also released 2 arcade games, Die Hard Arcade and The Simpsons Bowling with Sega and Konami respectively.

In May 2001, Vivendi Universal Games took over all publishing duties for Fox Interactive.^[2] The company would eventually be sold by Fox to them in 2003.

After the closure of Fox Interactive, video games based on 20th Century Fox properties are licensed out to other third party publishers or on mobile devices, are published by the successor to Fox Interactive, Fox Digital Entertainment.

List of video games published or licensed

References

20th Century Fox, Fox Video Games, Inc.