Beenox

Background
Beenox is a game development studio founded in 2000 in Quebec, Canada. In 2005, Beenox became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Activision. However, in 2012, founder Dominique Brown left the company, putting the studio in a state of peril and reducing it to more or less a support team of Activision. Despite this, Beenox still releases a few games here and there.

1st Logo (August 27, 2001-October 2, 2007)
Nickname: "The Droplet Gear"

Logo: On a dark blue background made up of several revolving lines, many spheres come raining down the screen, starting out small and rapidly increasing in mass. One of these spheres drops down dead center to the screen and generates plasma inside it, all before dropping to a stable charge. Several metal parts then fly in and cling to the sphere as it spins around, concealing most of it in a gear shape. As it finishes up, it zooms out a bit and parts of the word "BeeNOX", set in the Eager/Earth font, come in under it and form as the background fades to black.

Variants:
 * A short version exists, and is the most common variant of the normal logo.
 * On some ports, a streak flies in below the text, forming "SHIFT DIVISION" on the bottom.
 * A still version exists, with gradients on the logo instead and a simplified gear design, as well as a white outline surrounding it.

FX/SFX: The spheres falling, the gear forming. Very solid animation that still holds up to this day.

Music/Sounds: Several whooshes for the spheres falling, the sounds of electric crackling and metal clanging together, all before ending on a loud synth note that's held out until the logo fades out.

Availability: Uncommon. Outside of their first game, they were a publisher of PC ported games, so it can be seen on several titles ported by them, like the PC ports of The Incredibles, Madagascar, and Cars. However, others may replace it with the Aspyr Media logo.

2nd Logo (October 30, 2007-March 24, 2009)
Nicknames: "Beenox Man", "The Droplet Gear II"

Logo: On a sky blue background, we see a robotic man with the gear attached to his chest doing various tricks that backfire. At the end, the gear appears once more and the text flips in below.

Variants: Depending on the game:
 * Bee Movie Game: The B-Man rushes into the screen and raises his hand. He pushes the disc on his chest, causing a jet engine to come out of his back. He flies into the sky, but he then loses control, crashes into the screen and falls down. The disc remains and becomes the Beenox logo.
 * Kung Fu Panda: The B-Man is shown standing, then he appears jumping and performing some kung-fu, including spinning a bo staff. After this, he makes a Chinese bow. Then, he creates a big ball of energy and gets blasted away by it. The logo appears on the screen.
 * Quantum of Solace: The B-Man comes and makes some fighting over a exploder lying down the floor. He stumbles upon the exploder and then takes the disc from his chest (which is the Beenox circle) and throws it to the exploder. Nothing happens, and the man tries the disc with his leg, leading to the explosion and the Beenox logo appears.
 * Monsters vs. Aliens: We see a blueprint city made of cars. A gigantic B-Man comes and pushes the disc on his chest. The disc starts emerging light, and the man tries to roar at us, but the disc breaks off and takes a flight. Finally, the disc abducts the B-man and blasts to the screen, forming the complete logo.

Trivia: The B-Man was added as an unlockable skin for Geary in Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled on March 26, 2020, along with the gear as a bonus unlockable kart.

FX/SFX: Depends on the game.

Music/Sounds: Depends on the game.

Availability: Rare. Appears on the games above for PC, as well as the PlayStation 2, Xbox 360 and Wii versions of Bee Movie Game.

3rd Logo (Guitar Hero: Smash Hits variant) (June 16, 2009)
Logo: Five colored buttons (,, , and ) come down the screen to form the fretboard interface, and many other colored pegs (notes) fall in five rows and eventually explode into cartoony flames. Then all buttons become, as if the player activates the Star Power, and after that, they are replaced by five electric lines (sustained notes) ending on the five circles. The lines merge into one and we see it pulsing with energy, as if the player is using the Whammy Bar. The Beenox disc comes and burns on the line, then places itself on the screen.

Trivia: The logo's music appears as a hidden playable song in the game, which can only be played through the debug menu using a hacked Xbox 360.

FX/SFX: Fast and vivid action CGI.

Music/Sounds: A crowd cheering, a guitar solo becoming more dramatic for the rest of the logo, ending with a power chord, accompanied by other sound effects, like electricity zapping.

Availability: Seen on Guitar Hero: Smash Hits.

4th Logo (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen variant) (June 23, 2009)
Nickname: "Transforming Cell"

Logo: The metallic logo zooms in, collecting itself as a transformer. After transforming, the circle flashes, making the logo showing its regular colors.

FX/SFX: The cell forming.

Music/Sounds: The sound of metallic clatter and then a blast.

Availability: Seen on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for PC.

5th Logo (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions variant) (September 7, 2010)
Logo: A ghostly blue Beenox logo is seen over dark floating mist. The word "BeeNOX" is in a different font, and the cog wheel has also changed, containing the full circle inside. As the mist flows, Spider-Man's face can be briefly seen inside the circle.

FX/SFX: The mist flowing.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Seen on Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.

6th Logo (October 4, 2011-)
Logo: We zoom through a bunch of working mechanics and cog wheels, until one of them appears inside the screen, and the name appears below with a kind of light around.

FX/SFX: The logo proceeding through working gears.

Variants:


 * On the Wii version of Skylanders: SuperChargers, the still logo in white appears on a blue sky background with clouds.
 * On Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, the logo appears on a green radio wave and is shown alongside the Certain Affinity and High Moon Studios logos.
 * On Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2, the logo appears in a warehouse that we zoom out of.
 * On Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, the logo appears over some archive footage (gameplay in later updates). Next to it is the Raven Software logo.
 * On Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019), the logo (this time the gear is situated to the left of the text) reveals itself on a blue radio wave alongside the High Moon, Raven and Sledgehammer Games logos.
 * On Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, the logo is still and is situated next to the Activision Shanghai Studio logo.
 * On Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War, the logo (alongside the High Moon logo) appears on a glass window with a red computer monitor behind it.

Music/Sounds: Sounds of working wheels.

Availability: Seen on Spider-Man: Edge of Time, The Amazing Spider-Man, the Wii version of Skylanders: Swap Force and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. A still version can be seen on other games, such as Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time.

7th Logo (Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled variant) (June 21, 2019)


Logo: In space, we see a brown crate with a green light inside rotating while several green binary 1s and 0s suck into it. As we zoom into the crate, it closes and stops rotating as we see it has the gear from before in light blue on it, and "BeeNOX" in the same font as the last two logos underneath it, also in light blue. After a few seconds, something inside the crate beats it, and we zoom out slowly while the crate keeps getting beat. Finally, the crate opens, and Crash Bandicoot, Coco, Dr. Neo Cortex, Tiny Tiger, Polar, Nitros Oxide all drop down out of the crate and race past the camera in their race karts, followed by Aku Aku, who flies towards us.

FX/SFX: The crate rotating, zooming and getting beat, and the characters racing.

Music/Sounds: An abridged version main theme of Crash Team Racing, with a male announcer saying "Fasten your seat belts for a Beenox recreation!".

Availability: Only seen on Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled.

Editor's Note: This logo is a near-perfect recreation of the Naughty Dog logo from Crash Team Racing.