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The company made several questionable marketing decisions during its waning years (such as the infamous decision to [[Hotter and Sexier|include nudity]] in what became ''BMX XXX''; this angered Dave Mirra enough that he sued Acclaim for damages, fearing that the negative reception to the game would taint his previous association with the series). The company eventually filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in September 2004, effectively shutting it down for good. Ironically, when Acclaim went under it had finished making an exceptionally good licensed game based on ''[[The Red Star]]'', which was eventually picked up for publication by XS Games<ref>a division of Zenimax Media, parent company of [[Bethesda Softworks]]</ref> and released in 2007.
In 2006, another company acquired Acclaim's name and logo and called itself "Acclaim Games", acting as a publisher of [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]] such as ''BOTS'', ''9Dragons'' and ''The Chronicles of Spellborn''. The new company operated for four years before [https://web.archive.org/web/20160617044608/http://www.1up.com/news/game-publisher-acclaim-shuts-down-again ceasing operations a second time] on August 26, 2010.
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== Games published/developed by Acclaim prior to its (first) collapse: ==
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