The third game, MX Unleashed, was developed by Rainbow Studios, which had started the ATV Offroad Fury series around the time 2002 and Superfly were released and went on to create the MX vs. Like the Championship duology, the first two installments, 2002 and Superfly, were developed by Locomotive Games and endorsed by Ricky Carmichael, whose likeness went on to appear in some MX vs. The MX trilogy is a collection of three motorcross racing games, all published by THQ in the early 2000s, serving as a follow-up to THQ's Championship Motocross featuring Ricky Carmichael duology, whose two games were released for the PlayStation and the sequel also being available on Game Boy Color. PlayStation 2, Xbox, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, mobile phones A seventh game for ninth-generation consoles, MX vs. ATV Supercross, then endeavored to bring the series to eighth-generation consoles, porting Supercross to some of them many months later and releasing another sequel for them in 2018, titled MX vs. Nordic Games then continued the series in 2014 with MX vs. Nevertheless, the series endured THQ's demise, and in April 2013, Nordic Games acquired the franchise through the liquidation of THQ. ATV franchise in a company re-organization. In August 2011, THQ shut down THQ Digital Phoenix (which Rainbow Studios was known as at the time) as well as other game development studios and did not "actively pursue further development" of the MX vs. Players can also fly airplanes and helicopters in some of the games. As the name suggests, the series' main focus is racing with motocross bikes and all-terrain vehicles, although other vehicles such as dune buggies and sport trucks were also featured in the games. ATV Unleashed, were published by THQ prior to its bankruptcy and liquidation in 2013. Early games in the series, starting with MX vs. ATV is an American racing video game franchise developed by Rainbow Studios and published by THQ Nordic that focuses on off-road racing, as a crossover between THQ's MX trilogy and Sony's ATV Offroad Fury series.
ATV Supercross (ported to PS4, Xbox One and PC as MX vs.PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Xbox, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, mobile phones, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S ATV Legends, is in development and is set to be released on eighth and ninth-generation non-Nintendo platforms, along with personal computers. The series would then make its leap into the eighth generation of video games with a port of Supercross to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, followed by one more sequel available on such consoles, MX vs. ATV series yet again in 2014 with its fifth game, MX vs. Nordic Games would eventually purchase these assets and revive Rainbow Studios, which would then proceed to continue the MX vs. ATV franchise and its chief developer, Rainbow Studios. As THQ filed for bankruptcy, it sold its assets, including the MX vs. The series would then grow with three more sequels in the 2010s, but they were nearly not meant to be due to the severe financial difficulties that THQ underwent that would lead to the demise and dissolution of its original incarnation around the time MX vs. In the next decade that followed, however, Rainbow Studios would go back to singlehandedly making subsequent sequels that primarily targeted the latest high-definition non-Nintendo consoles. ATV Reflex, on several platforms, as opposed to primarily focusing on the latest two non-Nintendo consoles on the market. In the several years that followed, towards the end of the 2000s, THQ and Rainbow Studios experimented with a multi-platform approach for the series, releasing two sequels to Unleashed, MX vs.
ATV Unleashed, initially available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows, before being ported to the PlayStation Portable as MX vs. The series would begin in earnest in 2005 with MX vs. The game would thus be a precursor to a more ambitious project from Rainbow Studios: a crossover racing game series pitting the motocrosses of the MX trilogy against the all-terrain vehicles of the ATV Offroad Fury series it started earlier in the decade. What made it different from the previous two installments was that Rainbow Studios envisioned that motocrosses in the game would be able to hold their own against larger vehicles. Seeking another opportunity to make more high-quality motocross racing games after Microsoft's PC-exclusive Motocross Madness duology, Rainbow Studios took the reins of the MX trilogy from Locomotive Games to produce its final installment: MX Unleashed. It focuses on mixed-vehicle racing and intense competitions between motocrosses and all-terrain vehicles, as a crossover between THQ's MX trilogy and Sony Computer Entertainment's ATV Offroad Fury series. ATV series is an off-road racing video game series published by THQ.