Creator / Black Box

The best known of Black Box's logos; click here◊ to see the logo for Quicklime Games

EA Black Box (known as Black Box Games from 1998 until their purchase by Electronic Arts in 2002 and Quicklime Games from 2012 to the studio's closure in April 2013) was a Canadian video game developer based in Burnaby, British Columbia that was best known for their entries in the Need for Speed franchise and for their skateboarding game series Skate.

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Games developed

As Black Box Games:

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• NASCAR 2001 (2000)
• NHL 2K (2000)
• NHL Hitz 2002 (2001)
• NHL Hitz 2003 (2002)
• Sega Soccer Slam (2002)

As EA Black Box (and Quicklime Games):

• Need for Speed (2002-2013)
  • Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (2002; PlayStation 2 version only)
  • Need for Speed: Underground (2003)
  • Need for Speed: Underground 2 (2004)
  • Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005)
  • Need for Speed: Carbon (2006)
  • Need for Speed: ProStreet (2007)
  • Need for Speed: Undercover (2008)
  • Need for Speed: World (2010)^note Their only game under the Quicklime Games label, which they switched over to in 2012; the logo in the game changed from Black Box to Quicklime Games during that year and stayed on all the way to the closure of the game's servers in 2015, two years after the studio's 2013 closure.
  • Need for Speed: The Run (2011)^note Black Box's final release
• NHL 2004 (2003)
• NHL 2005 (2004)
• NBA Street Homecourt (2007)
• Skate series (2007-2010)
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  • Skate (2007)
  • Skate It (2008; Wii version)
  • Skate 2 (2009)
  • Skate 3 (2010)

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