TT Games

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TT Games Limited
legal form Limited
founding 2005
Seat Maidenhead , UK
management Thomas Creighton, Jonathan Smith, Thomas Stone
Number of employees 27
sales 361,940,000 USD
approx 432 160 000 EUR
Branch Software development
Website www.ttgames.com

TT Games Limited is a UK developer and publisher . The company is best known for its games based on the Lego license. It has been part of the Time Warner media group since 2007 .

Company history

TT Games emerged in 2005 from the merger of the British game developer Traveller's Tales with the British game publisher Giant Interactive. The company includes the development studios Traveller's Tales in Knutsford and TT Fusion in Wilmslow , the publishing branch TT Games Publishing (formerly: Giant Interactive) in Maidenhead and TT Animation, a studio for animated films. On November 8, 2007, the US media group Time Warner announced the takeover of the company through its subsidiary Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment . Time Warner paid £ 100 million for the acquisition, at which point Traveller's Tales had sold around 42 million games.

Traveller's Tales

Traveller's Tales was founded in 1989 by Jon Burton, who previously developed children's games for Warner Bros. and Disney. The company's first games were created in collaboration with British publisher Psygnosis . In 1994 some of the workforce left the company to found the new Studio Tales 2 , which was later renamed Hammerhead. In 1996/97 the studio published two titles in the Sonic series , Sonic 3D and Sonic R, in collaboration with the Japanese console manufacturer Sega . From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, the studio produced several companion games for Disney films, such as Toy Story , The Great Crawling , Finding Nemo and The Chronicles of Narnia . In addition, Traveller's Tales developed two titles in the Crash Bandicoot series . In collaboration with Lego, Traveller's Tales developed Lego Star Wars: The Video Game . When Lego decided to withdraw from the computer game industry, some Lego employees founded the publisher Giant Interactive Entertainment, which acquired the exclusive Lego license. Lego Star Wars was released in 2005 and sold around 6.5 million times. As a result, Traveller's Tales and Giant Interactive merged.

TT fusion

TT Fusion was founded in 2005 as Embryonic Studios by former employees of the development studio Warthog Games and developers of the handheld game console Gizmondo . In January 2007 it was announced that Embryonic had been acquired by Traveller's Tales.

Published games

As Traveller's Tales

Since the merger

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2017 Full Accounts , accessed on May 26, 2019
  2. ↑ http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/warner-bros-buys-tt-games
  3. ↑ Kevin Feddy: The £ 100m 'geek' ( English ) In: Manchester Evening News . November 9, 2007. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
  4. ↑ 30 in 30: Traveller's Tales ( Memento from December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Emma Boyes: Traveller's Tales acquires Embryonic ( English ) In: Gamespot UK . January 4, 2007. Archived from the original on August 16, 2012. Retrieved July 8, 2013.