Tight, controlled movement is at the heart of Bizarre Creation’s work. They produce score-chasing games that entice players with addictive self-improvement challenges. When driving, you must brake and turn perfectly. When shooting, you must move and attack flawlessly.

It works, of course, especially when tied into online multiplayer and competition. Project Gotham’s ranking boards are sought after in hours of practice by millions of players. Geometry Wars was hailed as the greatest Xbox game of its early stages – an impressive achievement for a tiny Arcade game.

But what else can they do? Can they take their brand of play to new frontiers, to new genres? The developers sought to find out with The Club. Read more…

Bizarre Creations’ perspective on the action genre made The Club an intriguing inclusion on the release schedules. They lack the genre-experience for this game to be conventionally interesting; it’s a new type of product from a developer known for racing and two-dimensional retro. Read more…

Tomorrow Sega will be releasing a demo of Bizzare Creation’s The Club onto Xbox Live, just for those European and Australian gamers who deserve it so much. A similar event happened for Playstation users two weeks ago. Read more…

Looking at Sega’s latest release schedule we can spy a firm release date for The Club and an approximate release date for Condemned 2. Read more…