Propaganda Games
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Propaganda Games was a video game development
Video game developer
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 studio based in Vancouver
Vancouver
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, British Columbia
British Columbia
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, Canada
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 which was formed in 2005. Owned by Disney Interactive Studios, the interactive division of Buena Vista
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, the studio was formed by former employees of EA Canada
EA Canada
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, including Josh Holmes, Howard Donaldson, Jorge Freitas and Daryl Anselmo. Prior to forming the studio, Anselmo and Holmes were co-creators of the NBA Street
NBA Street
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 franchise before teaming up with Freitas to create Def Jam Vendetta
Def Jam Vendetta
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.

They acquired the Turok
Turok
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 license the same year, which was released for next generation consoles in 2008.

Once work was completed on Tron: Evolution
Tron: Evolution
Tron: Evolution is a third-person action-adventure, tie-in video game for the film Tron: Legacy by Propaganda Games, published by Disney Interactive. It was officially announced at the Spike Video Game Awards and was released for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Xbox...

and the proposed Pirates of the Caribbean title was cancelled, Disney closed the studio in January of 2011.

Games

Release date Title(s) Genre(s) Platform(s)
2008
2008 in video gaming
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Turok First-person shooter
First-person shooter
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
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, PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3
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, Xbox 360
Xbox 360
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2010
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Tron: Evolution
Tron: Evolution
Tron: Evolution is a third-person action-adventure, tie-in video game for the film Tron: Legacy by Propaganda Games, published by Disney Interactive. It was officially announced at the Spike Video Game Awards and was released for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Xbox...

Action-adventure
Action-adventure game
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3
The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

, Xbox 360
Xbox 360
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Canceled Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned
Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned
Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned was an action role-playing video game in development by Propaganda Games to be published by Disney Interactive Studios for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows...

Action
Role-playing game
Role-playing video game
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Adventure
Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...

Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3
The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

, Xbox 360
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

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