Crogus Interactive Fire

The Burning of Crogus Interactive was an act of arson committed by an unknown number of individuals (mostly or all believed to be ex-employees of Crogus Interactive) on July 13, 2015, following the declaration of bankruptcy by Crogus Interactive. This was large in part due to the backlash and lawsuits from Scrimmy Bingus for the 3DS. During negotiations for the liquidation of the company, in which much of the software and IP of the Scrimmy Bingus series and Crogus' other IP's would be sold, the headquarters of the company were burned down. Negotiations for bankruptcy were put on hold indefinitely following this.
The crime was committed during the night, and was identified by the police following civilian reports of explosions. When the building was found, only the scorched cement and brick shell remained, with nearly everything inside being destroyed. The fire was identified to have multiple points of initiation and was aided by the gratuitous use of accelerants - primarily gasoline and propane - resulting in the near-total destruction of the building's contents. All of the design documents, hard drives, and 3rd-party consoles that had been previously stored on the property were destroyed, with forensics teams deducing that they had been deliberately stacked around several tanks of flammable gas and left to be blown up once the fire began. What remained of the building was determined to be structurally unsound, and the property was bulldozed in 2017. Any of the surviving evidence from the company's headquarters remains in police custody.
Although the employees of Crogus were vigilant in preserving their anonymity, the police were able to pin the identities of several suspects based on financial records and local interviews identifying the vehicles driven to the establishment. Despite this, none of these individuals have been caught, and are at large for both arson and bankruptcy fraud. While the motives of the culprits are unknown, it has been suggested that it was due to employee dissatisfaction due to poor working conditions, as well as resentment towards the Scrimmy Bingus IP itself.
The burning of Crogus' records and hard-drives are commonly cited for why the history of the Scrimmy Bingus series and Crogus' other IP's are so difficult to track, as the creators deliberately went out of their way to destroy the company's history. As such, only software and hardware acquired by fans - either legally or via piracy - are what remains to track the legacy of the company.
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