THE WORLD’S MOST SUCCESSFUL GAME STUDIOS
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46 BACKBONE ENTERTAINMENT TOP TITLES
USA PUBLISHER
HIGHEST UK CHART
£8.85m FORMATS
UK RELEASE REVENUE DATE
Founded: 1992 Independent (part of Foundation 9
1 SEGA MEGA DRIVE COLLECTION
STATISTICS
Entertainment)
SEGA
4
PSP, PS2
FEB 07
£3.49m
Last year’s position: 55 Head count: 130 Revenue per capita: £68,076
2 SONIC RIVALS
SEGA
35
PSP
NOV 06
£1.90m
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3 CHARLOTTE'S WEB
SEGA
30
DS, GBA, PC
FEB 07
£1.62m
SEGA
101
PSP
DEC 07
£0.56m
THQ
153
DS
NOV 06
£0.49m
TOTAL:
£8.06m
www.backb.com
4 SONIC RIVALS 2
5 AGE OF EMPIRES: THE AGE OF KINGS
It may have a famously prickly mascot, but Sega has been good to Backbone – games created for the publisher dominate the latter’s top-seller listing for 2007. Not recorded, however, are Backbone’s efforts over the past 12 months on Xbox Live Arcade. The company claims to have made
80
more games for Microsoft’s sub-platform than any other developer. It won six out of the ten categories in the inaugural Xbox Live Arcade awards given by Microsoft at the Game Developers Conference, including Best Overall Arcade Game for Bomberman Live (published by Hudson Entertainment).
(91% of total revenues)
A key constituent of Foundation 9’s portfolio of game developers, Backbone employs some 130 staff across studios in California and Vancouver. Current projects include two games for Eidos: Monster Lab on Wii and DS, and a return to its first creation in the shape of a Wii version of Death Jr.: Root of Evil.