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Foundation 9 unveils new look

Publishing group overhauls corporate identity with new logo, new Web site; changes meant to reflect focus on continued growth.

While it's not going to be made into a pilot episode for Extreme Game Publisher Corporate Identity Makeover, Foundation 9 today unveiled its new company logo, and a completely redesigned Web site to go with it.

Foundation 9 enlisted the help of branding agencies Ammirati and PixelPushers for the logo and Web site, respectively. The publisher says its new look represents the company's "recent growth and plans to embark on new development frontiers."

In a statement announcing the makeover, company COO Richard Hare added, "We see our new look as an essential part of our brand vision that further establishes the company as one of the premiere [sic] developers in the business."

Foundation 9 was formed in March of last year when indie developers The Collective (Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Mark Ecko's Getting Up) and Backbone Entertainment (Death Jr., Age of Empires: The Age of Kings for DS) joined forces. Since that time it has added five more brands to its roster: Pipeworks (Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee, Godzilla: Save the Earth), ImaginEngine (World Poker Championship), Digital Eclipse (Midway Arcade Treasures), the production management company Circle of Confusion, and most recently, the Prince Edward Island-based Backbone Charlottetown.

23 Comments

  • tuff_gong92

    Posted Mar 20, 2006 11:42 am GMT

    well all the more power to em. Well the logo's cool but its the games that matter in this industry but the amount of companies which have jioned with them is pretty good.

  • vroenis

    Posted Mar 19, 2006 10:09 pm GMT

    axes03 - that was my first thought actually XD

  • Hershey07

    Posted Mar 19, 2006 9:34 pm GMT

    Thats a skeet logo!

  • jonnyjd

    Posted Mar 19, 2006 8:14 pm GMT

    Kinda looks like a banner that would fly on an epic battle field.

  • aaronball

    Posted Mar 19, 2006 1:46 am GMT

    Check out my new look, I change it every time I level up!

  • fenriz275

    Posted Mar 18, 2006 4:02 pm GMT

    Does anyone else other then me find it a little disturbing that the biggest news this game publisher had to announce wasn't a new game but a logo? I hope that logo is seared into my brain so I can avoid their games like week old diapers.

  • DirkVDV01

    Posted Mar 18, 2006 2:15 pm GMT

    They must have been playing too much battle and WWI/II games, since it looks like a badge, only a rank that doesn't exist. I do tend to look at the badge the other way around, so that it more looks like XI, which would be 11 instead of IX, which is 9. I hope players will recognise the logo immediately so that the company doesn't need to spend lots of money in re-branding.

  • pyth0n13

    Posted Mar 18, 2006 1:03 pm GMT

    what's the old logo look like?

  • SQUALL20XX

    Posted Mar 18, 2006 7:38 am GMT

    nice logo .

  • gameloverx

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 9:52 pm GMT

    cool look I like it

  • revelations

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 6:38 pm GMT

    They have some really average games on that list there.....

  • Sandman100

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 6:27 pm GMT

    It does look similar to an Halo symbols.

  • Sandman100

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 6:26 pm GMT

    The logo cool. But they have made crab games. They need to make better games. Hopeful with a new logo they will.

  • axes03

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 6:22 pm GMT

    that looks like the halo2 symbol of when youre DEAD.lol

  • John_of_Fire

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 4:21 pm GMT

    Some nice companys coming together. Hopefully it works. Logo is OK but memorable.

  • NeoJedi

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 4:02 pm GMT

    Nice logo... now let's see some games!

  • Donkeljohn

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 3:31 pm GMT

    Amazing what the population mean could do.

  • Petri87

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 3:29 pm GMT

    bdub20791
    what's foundation 9?

    Yeah i never heard of them ether

  • nellyp

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 3:25 pm GMT

    I was recently considered for a job at the Backbone PEI studio but after months of deliberation they eventually settled on someone with more experience...not that I'm bitter or anything though.

  • miragels00

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 3:20 pm GMT

    foundation 9 sounds like a make-up my girlfriend would wear

  • blackIceJoe

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 3:20 pm GMT

    That looks nice and fresh.

  • bdub20791

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 3:03 pm GMT

    what's foundation 9?

  • frankeyser

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 3:03 pm GMT

    i actaully like the logo... i dont know why. but it looks cool to me.

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