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Ubisoft Reflections Ltd.,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Driver 76 )〕 formerly known as Reflections Interactive,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reflections Interactive )〕 is a British video game developer based in Newcastle, United Kingdom. The studio focuses on racing games and it is best known for creating the award winning ''Driver'' series. ==History== Martin Edmondson started developing games for the BBC Micro with Nicholas Chamberlain in 1984. Their first game was a ''Paperboy'' clone called ''Paper-Round'' that took two years to develop but was never released.〔(Profile ), A&B Computing, October 1988〕 While working on that game, they started ''Ravenskull'' which would be their first published game, released in 1986 by Superior Software. This was followed by ''Codename: Droid'' and an Acorn Electron conversion of ''Stryker's Run'' in 1987.〔 The name Reflections was first used for their 1989 hit Amiga game, ''Shadow of the Beast'', published by Psygnosis which spawned two sequels. The original Amiga game was partially written by Paul Howarth, and started out life as a parallax test of the blitter of the Amiga's Agnus chip; Paul later went on to work for Deep Red Games, a UK video game company based in Milton Keynes. A number of other Amiga and Atari ST games followed including ''Ballistix'' (1989), ''Awesome'' (1990) and ''Brian the Lion'' (1994). In 1995, they became known for ''Destruction Derby'', which was critically acclaimed for its realistic physics and destruction, which later become Reflections' specialty.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ubisoft Reflections Ltd. )〕 Due to the success, the game had four more sequels over the years. In 1999, Reflections became well known for the game ''Driver'', which was inspired by '70s cop shows like ''Starsky and Hutch'' and movies like ''Bullitt'' and ''The Driver''. It has been followed by four sequels and four spin-offs. Their original logo was designed to complement the Psygnosis owl, so that they would look good together on the back of game cases. Their current logo is a written "R" which is then rotated and mirrored, thus reflecting upon their name, "Reflections". In 2004, studio founder Martin Edmondson left Reflections after the concepting stage of Driver: Parallel Lines, and sued Atari due to "constructive unfair dismissal as a result of Reflections alleged repudiatory breach of a contract of employment that necessitated Mr. Edmondson's resignation." Martin's brother, Gareth Edmondson, took his place as the studio manager. In August 2006, Atari announced that it had transferred all of the staff and most of the assets of Reflections Interactive Limited, including the intellectual property and technology rights to the ''Driver'' series, to Ubisoft for $24 million. Reflections Interactive Limited was subsequently renamed Ubisoft Entertainment Limited trading as Ubisoft Reflections. The first Reflections game after becoming a Ubisoft studio, was ''Driver 76'', released in 2007. Martin Edmondson returned to Reflections as a consultant for the duration of the development of ''Driver: San Francisco'', released in September 2011. Gareth Edmondson, studio manager, left Reflections after more than a ten-year presence at the studio in November 2011, two months after the launch of ''Driver: San Francisco''. The studio is now headed by Pauline Jacquey. Reflections is working on multiple console formats, including the PlayStation Vita, Wii U and Kinect. May 2013, Ubisoft Reflections announced that they are working on a new game, Ubisoft plans to announced the game at E3 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ubisoft Reflections Working on a Unannounced Game, Reveal at E3 )〕 On 10 June, during Ubisoft's press conference it was revealed that Reflections are working with developer Ivory Tower on a new racing game called ''The Crew'', ''The Crew'' was released in December 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ubisoft Reveals the Crew a New Racer From Ivory Tower and Reflections at E3 )〕 As of September 2015, the studio is working on Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands and Tom Clancy's The Division. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ubisoft Reflections」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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