10 Beloved Video Game Studios That Didn't Deserve To Be Shut Down
4. Radical Entertainment
Throughout the 2000s, Radical Entertainment established themselves as a pretty capable mid-tier developer. Never making any smash hits but also never releasing any duds, the studio cranked out The Simpsons: Road Rage and Hit and Run, before releasing one of the best superhero games ever with Hulk: Ultimate Destruction in 2005.
Still not quite breaking into the big time or gaining enough clout with publisher Activision to be put onto their own original series, the developers were then moved onto the recently acquired Crash Bandicoot franchise, creating Crash Tag Team Racing before rebooting the character entirely with Crash of the Titans in 2007.
Finally given their big break, Radical came up with the Prototype series in 2009, and despite being pretty successful and resulting in one sequel, ultimately signed their own death warrant.
After years of making decent games but never achieving all that much in the way of commercial success, the studio suffered massive layoffs following Prototype 2's underperformance, with Activision announcing that the crippled studio would no longer make its own games, but instead act as a support team for the publisher's other major franchises.