Trials Fusion, RedLynx's latest game in the Trials franchise, has just been released today, so I'm going to take a look back at the 13 year old Finnish guys! (Disclaimer: RedLynx does not hire 13 year olds)
RedLynx started off in Helsinki, Finland in 2000, where they later made their first ever game, Trials, a Javascript browser game, which was pretty popular. 3 years later, they released a double whammy of Trials browser games, Trials Bike Basic and Trials Bike Pro, two games designed for two types of players. Still, RedLynx weren't going to get anywhere just making Javascript games, they had to make a great game on a big console so they could get noticed. Well, they did just that, but not how you would expect it...
Considering that that RedLynx are famous for their extreme sports games, you would've thought that they would've made a big Trials game for PS2 and Xbox, or something like that. Well, instead they made a real time strategy game named Pathway To Glory for the infamous Nokia N-Gage, the phone that aimed to be a games console as well, and ultimately failed. Not to say the game was bad though; in fact, it's considered a cult classic and forgotten gem among strategy games. It even spawned a sequel the following year! It was truly RedLynx's first great game.

After releasing a couple more N-Gage games and another free entry in the Trials series, the N Gage pretty much started to fizzle out, and RedLynx needed a new game to ensure that they had a future. That game was, in fact, another strategy game, this time set in the Warhammer universe. Yup, I'm talking about Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command, a PSP and DS game released in 2007 that none of you (Or I) have heard of. Still, it was fun, easy to pick up and a good all around game. The same year, the Trials 2 browser game came out, but I won't talk about that yet.
Come 2008, and RedLynx decided that the Nokia N Gage needed one more game of theirs before it finally went under, so they released Reset Generation, a puzzle-strategy game that contained many crude mockups of classic video game characters like Sonic and Mario. It was very well recieved, and was a fitting way for RedLynx (And Nokia) to bow out of the N Gage game. That very same year, Trials 2: Second Edition hit the shops: the game that made Trials famous. It was extremely well received, with an 82 on Metacritic, mainly thanks to it's simple yet challenging gameplay.

A year later came Trials HD, the first Trials game on consoles. Considered one of the best Xbox Live Arcade games of all time, Trials HD finally brought the "smart" racing game to the (Kinda) big screen in glorious HD graphics, plus it sold 2 million copies in 2 years. Also coming out that year was Monster Trucks Nitro 2, an iOS game that vastly improved on it's "eh" predecessor, mainly because there was much more gameplay options and well designed short and sharp levels.
The next year, RedLynx released another successful sequel to an iOS game; DrawRace 2, a game where you determine what route your car takes in a race by drawing it, and drawing faster and slower so it knows when to brake and turn. It has an 88 on Metacritic! The next year came two more amazing mobile games, the first being MotoHeroz, a cute verision Monster Trucks Nitro but with more platforming and doubling back involved, and the second being the weirdly named Nutty Fluffies, a Rollercoaster Tycoon meets Trials game. But I'm forgetting RedLynx's biggest game of 2012...

That game is Trials Evolution! Ditching the desolate factory setting of usual Trials games and changing it to the open road, Trials Evolution was a hoot to play with friends locally and online, and wide variety of tracks made it one of my favorite Xbox 360 games ever. I mean, it got a 90 on Metacritic, so it must be doing something right! Anyways, after going quiet for a year, RedLynx has hit us with a double whammy of Trials goodness, with Trials Frontier there for the mobile gamers, and the console version Trials Fusion. How good are they? Well, I'll leave that for you to find out...
Or you can look it up on Metacritic, I don't really care.
My favorite RedLynx game is: Trials Evolution.