High Impact Games was an American

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based in

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, formed in 2004 by former

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and

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members. In 2007, the company released '' Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters'' for the

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, with a

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port released the next year, and '' Secret Agent Clank'' in 2008, also for the PlayStation Portable. On November 3, 2009, the company released its third game, '' Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier'', for the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2. The game was based on the ''Jak & Daxter'' series made by

. In 2010, High Impact Games was developing a

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of ''Crash Team Racing'' for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii, but the publisher

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canceled the game before the initial prototype was made. In 2011, an environmental artist who had worked on some games, revealed that High Impact Games was working on a new project for the

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. This game was revealed to be '' Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension''.

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