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Black Isle Studios was a division of the electronic entertainment company and Baldur's Gate series of CRPGs, though it only published Baldur's Gate. On December 8 , 2003 , Interplay laid off Black Isle's entire staff. As of 2005, Interplay has neither explained the move nor clarified what the future holds for Black Isle. Many former Black Isle employees now work at Obsidian Entertainment , a video game development company. PRODUCTS
In addition to games developed in-house they have aided in the development of several CRPGs published by Interplay; the most notable being the '' for PlayStation 2 , Xbox and GameCube . Because Black Isle is a role-playing game developer that published the Baldur's Gate series, many people mistakenly believe that Black Isle developed the Baldur's Gate series. This is false, and the Baldur's Gate series was developed by BioWare , a company that is sometimes erroneously credited with developing the Icewind Dale series. PROJECT CODE NAMES The studio used to code-name its projects after U.S. Presidents and Vice-presidents . The system was reportedly created by Josh Sawyer (aka JE Sawyer), who joined the company in 1999 . A list of some BIS projects with their code names:
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