Stainless Steel Studios

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Stainless Steel Studios
Type of co.	Private (Defunct)
Founded	January 1998
Headquarters	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Key people	Rick Goodman, Founder
Industry	Software & Programming
Products	Empire Earth Empires: Dawn of the Modern World Titan game engine Titan 2.0 game engine Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War (completed by Midway Games)
Revenue	N/A
Employees	N/A
Website	N/A

Stainless Steel Studios (SSSI) was established by Rick Goodman in January 1998 as an interactive entertainment company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that focused on the development of real-time strategy software titles.

1 History
- 1.1 Portfolio
2 See also
3 External links

[edit] History

On November 25, 2005, Gamasutra reported that Stainless Steel Studios quietly ceased operations and laid off its employees. [1] The content of the official website was removed on November 24. Former SSSI employees Bob Scott and Daniel Higgins confirmed rumors appearing on the Heaven Games Rise & Fall fan site forum. [2]

Higgins wrote in reply to questions about the credibility of the rumors, "This is true, SSSI is no more. I can't give details as to why, but I can tell you the product is in excellent shape, the team was in high morale and plowing ahead at full steam, and we were just weeks from gold disk." The game was later completed by Midway Games and release on the 12th June 2006.

Shortly after, it was learned that the reason why Stainless Steel closed shop was because of cuts in funding from its most important client: publisher Midway Games.