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games. On September 18, 2018, Capcom announced the closure of the studio on reviewing the state of development of current projects. While a skeleton crew remained through January 2019 to complete certain projects, remaining development work was either cancelled or transitions to Capcom's Japan
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by three core founders with thirty five years of combined video game experience. Starting with only twelve staff and one game (
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In February 2018, Capcom had laid off about 30% of the studio, but had continued to use Capcom Vancouver to support
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series. Capcom announced the closure of the studio in September 2018, cancelling
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studios. Capcom estimated the cost of the cancelled projects equated to about
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series. Blue Castle Games was acquired by Capcom after the release of
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and moving other development to their Japan-based studios.
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Blue Castle Games

Subsidiary
Video games
The Coalition
Burnaby
British Columbia
Canada
COO
creative director
executive producer
Dead Rising
Parent
Capcom
Microsoft Studios
www.capcomvancouver.com
video game developer
Capcom
Microsoft Studios
baseball
sports video games
The Bigs
MLB Front Office Manager
The Bigs 2
Dead Rising
Dead Rising 2

Burnaby
British Columbia
Canada

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