Core Design, Ltd. was a British video game company founded in 1988 and based in Derby. Originally a developer of Amiga games (though many of its early titles were actually Multi-Platform), it started releasing games for the Sega Genesis, Sega CD and other consoles in 1992.
Core Design was acquired in 1994 by publisher US Gold, which over the next several years became part of Eidos Interactive. Under Eidos, Core Design developed all games in the Tomb Raider series until 2003, when Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness failed abysmally.
By 2006, Core Design was essentially defunct. The Core Design name and properties remained with Eidos, but the development team was acquired by Rebellion, and was re-branded as Rebellion Derby. They were ultimately taken down in 2010 after the critically savaged flop Rogue Warrior, so it's pretty safe to say the Core Design is completely and officially no more. Still, their legacy lives on in more ways than one - similar to the Sherlock Holmes blue plaque in London, the block of flats where Core's Derby offices once stood has one for Lara Croft
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Not to be confused with C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures.
Games developed by Core Design:
- Action Fighter (computer ports)
- The Adventurers
- Asterix and the Great Rescue
- Asterix and the Power of the Gods
- Banshee
- Battle Corps
- BC Racers
- The Big Red Adventure
- BLAM! Machinehead
- Blob
- Bubba 'n' Stix
- Chuck Rock
- Chuck Rock II: Son of Chuck
- Corkers
- Corporation
- Curse of Enchantia
- Cyber-Cop
- Darkmere: The Nightmare's Begun
- Dragonstone
- Dynamite Dux (computer ports)
- Fighting Force
- Fighting Force 2
- Frenetic
- Heimdall series
- Herdy Gerdy
- Hook (Sega Genesis/Sega CD version)
- Impossamole
- The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga (Sega Saturn version)
- Jaguar XJ 200
- Machine Head
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Ninja: Shadow of Darkness
- Premiere
- Project Eden
- Rick Dangerous series
- Saint and Greavsie
- Shellshock
- Skeleton Krew
- Smart Bomb
- Soulstar
- Swagman
- Switchblade
- Thunderhawk
- Thunderhawk 2: Firestorm
- Tomb Raider franchise:
- Tomb Raider I
- Tomb Raider II
- Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft
- Tomb Raider III: The Lost Artifact
- Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation
- Tomb Raider Chronicles
- Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword
- Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness
- Torvak the Warrior
- Tournament Leader
- Universe
- Virtual Golf
- War Zone
- Wolfchild
- Wonder Dog
Games developed as Rebellion Derby:
- Free Running
- Rogue Warrior
- Shellshock 2: Blood Trails
