Unique Development Studios

Unique Development Studios (commonly abbreviated UDS) was a Swedish video game developer with offices in Norrköping and Gothenburg. The studio built games for Microsoft Windows and for a broad range of video game consoles, working largely in the licensed and tie-in space — adapting motorsport, extreme-sports and entertainment properties into playable titles. UDS's catalogue spans several console generations. On PC it produced titles such as Absolute Pinball, Airfix Dogfighter, Asterix Mega Madness, Hot Wheels: Micro Racers, Bleifuss Fun, Mulle Meck builds Airplanes and SnowCross Championship Racing. Its console output included Sno-Cross Championship Racing and World's Scariest Police Chases on PlayStation, No Fear Downhill Mountain Bike Racing on Game Boy Color and PlayStation, Monster Jam: Maximum Destruction on Game Boy Advance, and Tennis Masters Series 2003 on GameCube and PlayStation 2. The studio also worked on Futurama for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube, and on eJay Clubworld: The Music Making Experience for PlayStation 2. Not every project reached shelves: a Futurama version for GameCube and The Kore Gang for Xbox were both cancelled. The company is today defunct, but its licensed-adaptation output remains a representative slice of the European console software market of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Unique Development Studios (UDS) was a Swedish video and computer game developer with locations in Norrköping and Gothenburg. It developed games for Microsoft Windows and for video game consoles, positioning itself in the licensed and tie-in segment of the market rather than as a first-party or wholly original-IP studio. Across its lifetime the studio released titles on a wide spread of platforms. Its PC catalogue included Absolute Pinball, Airfix Dogfighter, Asterix Mega Madness, Hot Wheels: Micro Racers, Bleifuss Fun, Mulle Meck builds Airplanes and SnowCross Championship Racing. On PlayStation it released Asterix Mega Madness, No Fear Downhill Mountain Biking, Sno-Cross Championship Racing and World's Scariest Police Chases. For Game Boy Color it produced No Fear Downhill Mountain Bike Racing, and for Game Boy Advance Monster Jam: Maximum Destruction. On PlayStation 2 it released Futurama, Tennis Masters Series 2003 and eJay Clubworld: The Music Making Experience, while the GameCube received Tennis Masters Series 2003. It also worked on Futurama for Xbox. Some projects were cancelled before release: a GameCube version of Futurama and The Kore Gang for Xbox. The company is now defunct; its website was hosted at uds.se. Its output is documented in game databases such as MobyGames and by outlets such as IGN.

Licensed and tie-in game developer for PC and consoles, operating across multiple platforms and genres.

• Absolute Pinball

• Airfix Dogfighter

• Asterix Mega Madness

• Hot Wheels: Micro Racers

• Bleifuss Fun

• Mulle Meck builds Airplanes

• SnowCross Championship Racing

• Sno-Cross Championship Racing

• No Fear Downhill Mountain Bike Racing

• World's Scariest Police Chases

• WRC Arcade

• Monster Jam: Maximum Destruction

• Futurama

• Tennis Masters Series 2003

• eJay Clubworld: The Music Making Experience

• Futurama (cancelled)

• The Kore Gang (cancelled)

1. 1Unique Development Studios – Wikipedia (German)de.wikipedia.org
2. 2Unique Development Studios – Wikidatawikidata.org
3. 3Välkommen till SLU Universitetsdjursjukhuset (UDS)slu.se