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Left Field leaves Nintendo as a second party publisher

former second-party Left Field Productions has ceased its ties with Nintendo and has begun work on multi-platform software. The company, which recently completed NBA Courtside 2002 for GameCube, is currently underway with a series of Backyard Sports kid games for the Humongous / Infogrames label.

The titles will appear on next-generation consoles. Shortly after completing Courtside 2002, a good chunk of the team at Left Field quit and went to work for Sega / Visual Concepts, according to sources. Former team members are now allegedly helping develop the GameCube port of NCAA College Basketball.

So what became of 1080 Snowboarding GCN, the Left Field developed GameCube update that was briefly previewed at Space World 2001? It's still in development -- but not by Left Field. "I'd be surprised if it didn't show up again in one form or another," said an insider on the subject.

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