THQ Digital Studios UK Ltd was a video game developer based in Warrington, England; Juice Games was acquired by THQ in March 2006, and was merged with 'Rainbow Studios' in 2010 forming THQ Digital Studios. The Warrington operations were closed in June 2011. Juice Games was formed from the ashes of Rage Games Limited, which was mostly made up of staff from Digital Image Design . The company was headed by industry veteran Colin Bell, until the buy out by THQ, who then assumed the position of General Manager. Juice Games' most anticipated game, Juiced, was released around May/June 2005 after... much delay. Juiced was originally going to be released in November 2004, but its publisher, Acclaim, went out of business and the game went into limbo for a month before being picked up and published by THQ. Set up in 2003, Juice Games also launched mobile and interactive TV games, according to their website. In 2005, Juice Games won the "Best New UK/European Studio" from the Develop magazine awards. Juice Games developed the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS versions of Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights in 2007.
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