Planet Moon Studios

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Planet Moon Studios is a game development studio based in San Francisco, California founded by ex-Shiny Entertainment developers Nick Bruty (President) and Bob Stevenson (CEO) in 1997.

Planet Moon is responsible for games like MDK (Playmates, 1997) ^[1], Giants: Citizen Kabuto (Interplay, 2000) ^[2], Armed and Dangerous (Lucasarts, 2003) ^[3] and INFECTED (Majesco Games, 2005). ^[4] The games are generally critically acclaimed for both game-play and graphics, and are often lauded for their humour in various reviews. ^[5] ^[6]

It was recently announced that SEGA had contracted Planet Moon to revive a "vintage brand" for them: SEGA has confirmed the game signed with Planet Moon Studios is After Burner for PlayStation Portable. Called "After Burner: Black Falcon", it's due out in spring 2007 and promises a single-player campaign along with competitive and co-operative Wi-Fi multiplayer modes. Planet Moon will be injecting the game with 19 officially licensed, customisable planes, as players embark on a story-rich campaign to discover the origins of the titular mercenary group Black Falcon, responsible for the theft of 13 top-secret planes." -- www.eurogamer.net

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The name of the company was from co-founder Scott Guest, who described a moment of intense overwhelming joy as "being on the planet Moon."

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^ Sengstack, Jeff (May 1997). Review: MDK. GameSpot. Retrieved on 2006-07-07.
^ Osborne, Scott (December 2000). Review: Giants: Citizen Kabuto. GameSpot. Retrieved on 2006-07-07.
^ Gerstmann, Jeff (December 2003). Review: Armed and Dangerous. GameSpot. Retrieved on 2006-07-07.
^ Davis, Ryan (November 2005). Review: Infected. GameSpot. Retrieved on 2006-07-07.
^ Reviews for Giants: Citizen Kabuto. GameSpot (December 2000). Retrieved on 2006-07-07.
^ Reviews for MDK. GameSpot (May 1997). Retrieved on 2006-07-07.