Black Hole Entertainment

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Black Hole Entertainment
Industry Video games
Founded2001
DefunctJuly 2012
Headquarters,
Owner Cinergi Interactive (2003-2007)

Black Hole Entertainment (also known as Black Hole Games) was a Hungarian video game developer, founded in 2001 in Budapest by seven young game enthusiasts.

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The company's first title was Armies of Exigo , developed with the financial backing of Andy Vajna, published by Electronic Arts and released in the end of 2004. The team has developed Warhammer: Mark of Chaos and Warhammer: Battle March , an expansion for Mark of Chaos, which were released on November 14, 2006 and September 16, 2008, respectively, for the PC. Warhammer: Battle March was also released for the Xbox 360 game console on September 2, 2008.

Black Hole developed the sixth installment of the Heroes of Might and Magic series, Might & Magic Heroes VI , in collaboration with Ubisoft. The title was released in October 2011, postponed from its original launch date of March. The studio was reported in various media [1] [2] to have gone bankrupt as a result of the nature of this development, and members of the company blamed Ubisoft for the mistake. [3] As of July 2012, the company is no longer operating.

Many members works in Primal Game Studio, [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] including cofounders Zoltan Zsuffa, [13] Sandor Jakus, [14] Tamas Sandor. [15]

Games developed

References

  1. ↑ "Black Hole Entertainment Goes Bankrupt: Heroes VI Creators Blame Ubisoft." geekscape.net, April 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
  2. ↑ "Heroes 6 dev goes bankrupt, blames Ubisoft." Archived 2014-12-28 at the Wayback Machine Rock, Paper, Shotgun, April 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
  3. ↑ "Alleged Black Hole Entertainment Developer Takes Ubisoft to Task over Heroes VI." Archived November 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine 'Gamer Politics,' April 18, 2012. Retrieved 4 April, 2013.
  4. ↑ "As many of you know, Black Hole Entertainment closed doors in 2011. Several members of the former team now work at Primal Game Studio". Facebook .
  5. ↑ "Gabor Illes: Development Director -> Head of Production".
  6. ↑ "Black Hole Entertainment". MobyGames. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
  7. ↑ "Primal Game Studio Ltd". MobyGames. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
  8. ↑ "Gábor Markó". MobyGames. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
  9. ↑ "Gábor Szász: 3D artist".
  10. ↑ "Salim Benhamada: QA -> Project Manager". MobyGames. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
  11. ↑ "Gábor Szabó: Game Designer". MobyGames. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
  12. ↑ "István Zsuffa". MobyGames. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
  13. ↑ "Zoltan Zsuffa: Black Hole (Co-founder, from Network Programmer to Technical Director to CEO) -> Primal Games Studio (Co-founder & CEO)".
  14. ↑ "Sandor Jakus: programmer".
  15. ↑ "Art Director".

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