Bigbig Studios
Subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment | |
Industry | Video game industry |
Successor | Evolution Studios |
Founded | 2001 |
Defunct | 2012 |
Headquarters | Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK |
Products | Video games |
Owner | Sony Corporation |
Parent | SCE Worldwide Studios |
Bigbig Studios was a video game developer. It was founded in 2001 by a core team of four former Codemasters employees.[1] The company was set up with the help of parent company Evolution Studios. It was based in Leamington Spa in the UK.[2] It has gained a large amount of popularity due to its first game Pursuit Force which has become a bestseller.
Bigbig Studios and Evolution Studios were both acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in September 2007,[3] which was confirmed in an interview and Bigbig Studios were assigned to work exclusively for the portable PlayStation products with the releases of the Pursuit Force games,[4] and MotorStorm: Arctic Edge for the PlayStation Portable plus Little Deviants for the PlayStation Vita[citation needed]
On 10 January 2012, Sony confirmed that it has proposed the closure of Bigbig Studios.[5]
Games developed
Game title | Year Released | Platform(s) |
---|---|---|
Pursuit Force | 2006 | PlayStation Portable |
Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice | 2008 | PlayStation Portable |
MotorStorm: Arctic Edge | 2009 | PlayStation Portable & PlayStation 2 |
Little Deviants | 2012 | PlayStation Vita |
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External links
- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived November 25, 2011)
- Articles with unsourced statements from April 2013
- Companies based in Warwickshire
- Companies established in 2001
- Companies disestablished in 2012
- Defunct companies of England
- Defunct video game companies
- First-party video game developers
- Sony Computer Entertainment game studios
- Video game development companies
- Video game companies of the United Kingdom