Evolution Studios
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| Subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment | |
| Industry |
Computer & video games Interactive entertainment |
| Predecessor | Bigbig Studios |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Founder |
Martin Kenwright Ian Hetherington Mick Hocking |
| Defunct | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Runcorn, Cheshire, United Kingdom |
| Products |
World Rally Championship series MotorStorm series |
| Owner | Sony (2007-2016) |
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Number of employees
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about 60 |
| Parent | SIE Worldwide Studios (2007-2016) |
| Website | Official website |
Evolution Studios Ltd. was a British video game developer headquartered in Runcorn, Cheshire. The company was founded in 1999 by Martin Kenwright and Ian Hetherington, following the purchase of their studio Digital Image Design's publisher Ocean Software by Infogrames. Kenwright then left Digital Image Design with six members of staff to form Evolution Studios.
Then based in Frodsham, Cheshire, it developed a racing demo on PC, depicting multiple rally cars racing on a circuit with cockpit views, which was subsequently picked up by Sony as it was interested in a PlayStation 2 game based on the World Rally Championship licence.
Both Evolution and their satellite studio, Bigbig Studios, in Warwickshire were acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in September 2007. At this point, Kenwright and Hetherington left the company, with its co-founder Mick Hocking taking over, running Evolution, Bigbig and SCE Studio Liverpool as Group Studio Director. Hocking was subsequently promoted to Vice President of the Studio Group in April 2011.
The developer's last game was Driveclub. It was scheduled as a PS4 launch title, although it was ultimately delayed, until October 2014. They claim they had trademarked the name of the game almost 10 years ago, but were waiting for the technology to create their vision of the game.
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