Surreal Software
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| Subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment | |
| Industry |
Interactive entertainment Computer and video games |
| Fate | Merged into Monolith Productions |
| Successor | Monolith Productions |
| Founded | Seattle, Washington, USA (1995) |
| Defunct | 2010 |
| Headquarters | Kirkland, Washington, USA |
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Key people
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Alan Patmore, co-founder and studio head Stuart Denman, co-founder and studio technology director |
| Products | Video games |
| Owner | Time Warner |
| Parent | Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment |
| Website | www.surreal.com |
Surreal Software was a video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington, USA, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Suffering and Drakan series. Surreal Software employed over 130 designers, artists, and programmers. Surreal was acquired by Warner Bros. Games during the bankruptcy of Midway Games in July 2009. After a significant layoff in January 2011, the remaining employees were integrated into WBG's Kirkland offices, along with developers Monolith and Snowblind.
Surreal Software's technical capabilities increased, with the advancement of multi-platform offerings, and a proprietary real-time game development engine. The studio last worked on This Is Vegas, a title which was scheduled to be released on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. The first screenshots, video and game information for This Is Vegas were unveiled the week of February 4, 2008 at IGN.
Surreal Software was founded in 1995 as an independent video game development studio by Alan Patmore, Stuart Denman, Nick Radovich and Mike Nichols. Patmore, Nichols and Radovich attended Eastside Catholic High School in Bellevue, Washington together. They found Stuart Denman, a University of Washington grad, through an online message board. The group began operating in 1995 in an office in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood. Previously, Radovich sold real estate, Patmore worked at a wireless company, Nichols was working at local game company Boss Studios, and Denman had just interned at Microsoft on the Excel team.
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