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  • ️Wed Jun 20 2012

Titus Software (Creator)

Titus Interactive SA (formerly Titus France SA) was a French software company, created in 1985 by The Caen Brothers, Eric and Hervé, named after Eric's childhood nickname. They made and published some good games (Crazy Cars II and III, Prehistorik) and some rather infamously bad ones (Superman 64, RoboCop (2003), Carmageddon 64, though developed by Software Creations).

In 2001, Titus acquired majority control of Interplay Entertainment and Virgin Interactive by buying up stock, and the same year Hervé Caen took over as CEO of Interplay whilst also fully owning Virgin Interactive in the process. Following some poor business decisions, however, the Titus company filed for bankruptcy in 2004, almost dragging Interplay down with it and Virgin Interactive, which was re-named to Avalon Interactive in 2003, went bankrupt in November 2005. Ultimately though, Interplay managed to avoid bankruptcy by the skin of its teeth and, in a twist of irony, brought up Titus' IPs and other assets, including Virgin Interactive's own releases excluding titles they published from other companies.

In 2020, four Titus games (Prehistorik Man, Titan, The Braines and Incantation) were included in the "Interplay Collection" for the new handheld console Evercade.

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