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Boo to associating Britain with heroic failure. We do this too much to ourselves! Actually, British game development industry is a notable success and has turne
by dash2 2y ago
Boo to associating Britain with heroic failure. We do this too much to ourselves! Actually, British game development industry is a notable success and has turned Leamington Spa from a byword for chintziness to an exciting place to work.
- dualogy 2y agoTrue enough, way beyond my old-school favs of Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark, and GTA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_game_companies_of_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_game_companies_...
- madaxe_again 2y agoI mean, GTA is one of the biggest game franchises on the planet, which is hard to see as anything other than a success. Gouranga!
- ksec 2y ago>Boo to associating Britain with heroic failure Not sure which part of it is a failure. Even the articles said > it was successful enough that Lionhead was bought by Microsoft in 2006, and its two sequels also sold well.
- tetris11 2y agoBullfrog, Rockstar North, Climax, 4J, Rocksteady
- delta_p_delta_x 2y agoSome more to add— - Revolution Software (Broken Sword series) - Fireproof Games (The Room series) - Jagex (RuneScape) - Core Design (Tomb Raider) - Dovetail Games (Rail and Train Simulator*)
- stavros 2y agoThe Elite: Dangerous studio?
- wishfish 2y agoHello Games - No Man's Sky And one that probably few here have heard of: Lapioware - Diesel Railcar Simulator Mentioning that one because it's a one man show. Made by a man who felt nostalgic for the diesel railcars & landscapes of 1960s Britain. So he ended up making one of the most realistic train sims.
- _bent 2y agoFrontier, Cloud Imperium Games, Free Radical / Crytek UK / Dambuster, Ninja Theory, Playground Games