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Melbourne House is a game development studio owned by Atari and based in Melbourne, Australia. They were founded in 1980 under the name Beam Software. They are known for the early games The Way of the Exploding Fist (Commodore 64) and The Hobbit (1982) (ZX Spectrum). They are the largest and most established Australian software developer.

In the early 90s Melbourne House found success in their home country with releases such as Aussie Rules Footy and International Cricket for the NES. In the mid-to-late 90s, Melbourne House found further success with PC titles Krush Kill 'n' Destroy (KKND), and the sequel KKND2: Krossfire. Unfortunately, they released KKND2 in South Korea well before they released it in the American market, and pirated versions of the game were available on the internet before it was available in stores in the U.S. They also helped produce SNES games such as WCW Super Brawl and an updated version of International Cricket titled Super International Cricket. They ported the Sega Saturn game Bug! to Windows 3.x in August, 1996.

The studio developed racing games DethKarz and GP500 shortly before being acquired by Infogrames and cementing a reputation as a racing game developer with Test Drive: Lemans and Looney Tunes: Space Race (both Dreamcast and PlayStation 2), followed by the technically impressive Grand Prix Challenge (PlayStation 2), before a disastrous venture into third-person shooters with Men In Black II: Alien Escape (PlayStation 2, Gamecube).

In 2004 the studio released Transformers: Armada for the PlayStation 2 games console and based on the toy franchise of the same name.

The studio is currently working on a PlayStation 2 port of Eden's next-generation Xbox 360 title Test Drive: Unlimited.

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