THE WORLD’S MOST SUCCESSFUL GAME STUDIOS
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EVOLUTION STUDIOS
TOP TITLES
UK PUBLISHER
HIGHEST UK CHART
£9.12m FORMATS
UK RELEASE REVENUE DATE
Founded: 1999 Owned by: Sony Computer
1 MOTORSTORM
STATISTICS
Entertainment
SCEE
2
PS3
MAR 07
£9.02m
Head count: 110 Revenue per capita: £82,909
2 WRC RALLY EVOLVED
SCEE
68
PS2
OCT 07
£0.07m
CONTACTS Address: Manor Farm Road,
3 WRC 4
Kings Court, Nr. Runcorn,
SCEE
96
PS2
NOV 04
£0.02m
Cheshire, WA7 1HR, UK www.evos.net
TOTAL: The recent history of Evolution Studios reads like that of British games development in microcosm. Several years of hard work on its PS3 racing game MotorStorm paid off when the near-launch title received very positive reviews; it has subsequently sold three million copies worldwide.
£9.11m
Cue the acquisition of Evolution (and its subsidiary BigBig Studios) by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe in September, the departure of Evolution founders Martin Kenwright and Ian Hetherington, and the rise of former MD Mick Hocking to become SCEE’s Group Studio Director, running Evolution,
(99% of total revenues)
BigBig, and SCEE’s Studio Liverpool, which have a combined headcount of 250. Evolution numbers 110 staff, busily working on a MotorStorm sequel and DLC for the original. The company has expanded to take in a third building, and has created a second development team with its own audio suite.
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