Traveller's Tales

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Traveller's Tales Ltd. is a British software house established in 1990 and based in Knutsford, Cheshire. It is part of the TT Games group, along with TT Games Publishing. While they worked closely with Disney, producing several games based on their movies (mostly those by Pixar, such as Toy Story and Finding Nemo), they are best known for Sonic 3D and the hugely successful Lego Star Wars: The Video Game as well as games also made by Psygnosis which they were most notable for creating 3D effects, possibly in order to add minor realism. Their first game was Leander. Their recent work includes the popular franchise Crash Bandicoot, The Chronicles of Narnia, Super Monkey Ball Adventure, Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, and WRC and F1 for the PSP. They have sold over 39,000,000 games to date, and recently won a BAFTA for Gameplay with Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy.

The independent developer Embryonic Studios, formed by the key staff of Gizmondo/Warthog, was acquired by Traveller's Tales in 2006. Having been renamed TT Fusion, it is currently working on DS versions of the console games TT have in production, as well as prototype work on future TT games.

Traveller's Tales Oxford studio closed down. The team were responsible for Crash Twinsanity and Super Monkey Ball Adventure.

The company was recently purchased by Warner Bros., but will continue to operate, with the development of Lego Batman: The Video Game in the fall of 2008.