CCP Games

CCP hf

Type	Private company
Industry	Video games
Founded	Reykjavík, Iceland (1997 (1997))
Founder	Reynir Harðarson Ívar Kristjánsson Þórólfur Beck
Headquarters	Reykjavík, Iceland
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Birgir Már Ragnarss (Chairman) Hilmar Veigar Pétursson (Global CEO & Iceland CEO)
Products	Eve Online Dust 514 Eve: Valkyrie Project Legion Gunjack
Owner	Novator Partners General Catalyst Partners
Number of employees	600
Website	www.ccpgames.com

CCP hf or CCP Games (Crowd Control Productions) is an Icelandic video game developer and publisher, majority owned by the company's staff and founders, Novator Partners and the American investment fund General Catalyst Partners. CCP is best known for producing Eve Online.

CCP was founded in June 1997 by Reynir Harðarson, Þórólfur Beck and Ívar Kristjánsson for the purpose of making MMORPGs. In order to finance the initial development of Eve Online, CCP developed and published a board game in Iceland called Hættuspil ("Danger Game"). The game sold more than 10,000 copies to Iceland's 80,000 households. In April 2000 the company, with Sigurður Arnljótsson as CEO, raised $2.6 million, through a closed offering organized by Kaupthing Bank (now Arion banki), from private investors in Iceland, including the Icelandic telephone company Síminn. He was with the company from 1999 to 2002 during which time the company raised 2 rounds of financing and secured a contract with Simon and Schuster interactive games. Approximately half of the initial 21 staff were drawn from the Icelandic dot-com company OZ Interactive, the makers of OZ Virtual.

In late 2011 CCP released an announcement to its community admitting that they had made a mistake by releasing the Incarna expansion in its current development stage. In the wake of the Incarna expansion and following a mass protest by EVE-Online players, CCP announced that it had decided to prioritize and shift their focus from their World of Darkness MMO back to their EVE-Universe products, EVE Online and Dust 514 respectively. The restructuring resulted in the lay-offs of 20% of CCP's staff worldwide. The majority of these lay-offs affected the Atlanta, United States, office, but also affected were several positions in CCP's head office in Reykjavík. Even though after considerable downsizing, CCP claims that EVE Online and its development is stronger than ever and that the company will continue to grow. CCP confirmed that they had moved away from the Incarna/Ambulation project to focus on the core game mechanics and that Incarna may be revisited further down the line.