THE WORLD’S MOST SUCCESSFUL GAME STUDIOS
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CAT DADDY
STATISTICS
#
TITLE
£7.88m PUBLISHER HIGHEST UK CHART
FORMATS
UK RELEASE DATE
REVENUE
1
CARNIVAL: FUNFAIR GAMES
TAKE 2
4
Wii, DS
OCT 07
£5.96m
Founded: 1999
2
CARNIVAL GAMES: MINI GOLF
TAKE 2
41
Wii
OCT 08
£1.39m
3
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!
TAKE 2
65
Wii
JUN 09
£0.44m
Owned by: Take-Two
4
SCHOOL TYCOON
TAKE 2
191
PC
MAY 07
£0.06m
5
MALL TYCOON 3
TAKE 2
339
PC
OCT 08
£0.03m
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CAT DADDY CONTINUES to grow a portfolio of titles that few Develop readers would envy – and fewer have played. The latest, 2009’s barely-reviewed It’s My Birthday, again. sees the US studio reworking the party game formula that took Carnival Games on Wii and DS to £6 million worth of business in the UK last year. The game boasts a Metacritic score of 52, lest we forget, while the spin-off, Carnival Games:
CONTACTS Address: 14715 Bel-Red Road, Suite 100, Bellevue, WA 98007, USA
HB STUDIOS
STATISTICS
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TITLE
£7.79m PUBLISHER HIGHEST UK CHART
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FIFA 10
Founded: 2000
2
BIG BEACH SPORTS
3
RUGBY 08
Independent
4
NBA LIVE 09
5
TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 10
ELECTRONIC ARTS
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Mini Golf, scored just 38. Who’d be a games reviewer? Based in Washington State and owned by Take-Two, the company is still apparently working on the much-delayed sequel to Carnival Games. It’s certainly not working on its four-page website, which is even less informative that last year. Such resolute defiance of almost every trinket boasted by other highly-ranked studios is almost heroic.
FORMATS
UK RELEASE DATE
REVENUE
ELECTRONIC ARTS
1
PSP, PS2, PC
OCT 09
£5.07m
THQ
4
Wii
JUN 08
£2.57m
ELECTRONIC ARTS
22
PS2, PC
JUL 07
£0.03m
ELECTRONIC ARTS
106
Wii
OCT 08
£0.03m
1
PSP, PS2
JUL 09
£0.03m
‘FISH WHERE THE fish are’ the old-timers say, and in porting EA’s FIFA 10 to PSP, PS2 and PC, Canada’s HB Studios is arguably shooting fish in a barrel. The studio might reply that you don’t just dial in for a gig with EA. Founded in 2000 by CEO Jeremy Wellard (a Brit) the studio paid its dues with EA Sports’ Cricket and Rugby titles before finally getting a sniff of Madden in 2007. Work on
NBA Live and NHL soon followed, and HB Studio’s team has since grown to 130, split between the tiny town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and the larger city of Halifax. Following the release of its co-developed FIFA 10 Ultimate Team DLC in March, HB says it has shipped 24 titles across 159 SKUs and sold more than 13.5 million units.
CONTACTS Address: The Hive, Box 725, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, B0J 2C0, Canada