WizardWorks

{{Short description|American video game developer}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2017}}

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{{Infobox company

| name = WizardWorks Group, Inc.

| logo = WizardWorks logo.svg

| type = Subsidiary

| industry = Video games

| fate = Dissolved by parent

| founded = {{Start date and age|1980|08|21}}

| founder =

| defunct = {{End date|2004|03|29}}

| hq_location_city = Minneapolis, Minnesota

| hq_location_country = U.S.

| area_served = North America

| key_people =

| num_employees = 19

| num_employees_year = 2004

| parent = Atari, Inc. {{small|(1996–2004)}}

| website =

}}

WizardWorks Group, Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company was founded in 1980 and, in 1993, WizardWorks opened the CompuWorks and MacSoft divisions. In 1996, WizardWorks was acquired by GT Interactive{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/GT+Interactive+acquires+The+WizardWorks+Group,+a+leading+software...-a018417293|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514153539/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/GT+Interactive+acquires+The+WizardWorks+Group%2c+a+leading+software...-a018417293|title=GT Interactive acquires The WizardWorks Group, a leading software publisher|website=Business Wire|archivedate=May 14, 2014|date=June 25, 1996|accessdate=September 4, 2021|via=The Free Dictionary}}{{cite magazine|last=Svensson|first=Christian |title=GT Bags FormGen|magazine=Next Generation|issue=21 |publisher=Imagine Media|date=September 1996|page=24}} to become part of their GT Value Products umbrella, which was later abandoned. Through acquisitions, GT Interactive became Atari. On March 29, 2004, Atari, Inc. closed down all operations of WizardWorks, and folded outstanding projects into their publishing branch in Beverly, Massachusetts.{{cite web|last=Feldman|first=Curt |title=Deer Hunter Publisher Shuttered|url=http://www.gamespot.com/articles/deer-hunter-publisher-shuttered/1100-6092469|website=GameSpot|access-date=17 August 2017|date=March 29, 2004}}