Arkane Studios is a video game developer based in Lyon, France. It was founded in 1999, and released its first game, Arx Fatalis, in 2002. The design of Arx Fatalis was heavily influenced by games from the now-defunct Looking Glass Studios, especially Ultima Underworld. Arkane's next project is Dark Messiah of Might & Magic for Ubisoft, utilizing the Source engine. A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ... City motto: Avant, avant, Lion le melhor. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Arx Fatalis is a 3D RPG game for the XBox and PC, released in 1999 by Arkane Studios, a video game developer based in Lyon, France. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Looking Glass Studios (originally Blue Sky Productions, later Looking Glass Technologies) was a computer game development company during the 1990s. ... Ultima Underworld is a series of two computer role playing games published by Origin Systems in the early 1990s. ... Dark Messiah of Might & Magic is a game developped by Arkane Studios and Ubisoft. ... Ubisoft Entertainment (formerly Ubi Soft) is a computer and video game publisher and developer headquarted in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France. ... Sources physics are demonstrated in this screenshot from Half-Life 2, with the body of a Combine soldier and his rifle hurled into the air after a collison with a dune buggy. ...