Evolution Studios

Evolution Studios
Type Subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment
Industry Computer and video games
Founded 1999
Founder(s) Martin Kenwright, Ian Hetherington, Mick Hocking
Headquarters Runcorn, Cheshire, UK
Key people Mick Hocking (Group Studio Director)
Products Video games
Owner(s) Sony Corporation
Parent SCE Worldwide Studios
Website http://www.evos.net/

Evolution Studios Ltd. is a British video game developer. The company was founded in 1999 by Martin Kenwright (Digital Image Design) and Ian Hetherington (Psygnosis), following the purchase of DID's publisher Ocean Software by Infogrames. Kenwright left DID with six members of staff to form Evolution Studios.

Then based in Frodsham, Cheshire, it developed a racing demo on PC, which was picked up by Sony as it was interested in a PlayStation 2 game based on the World Rally Championship licence.

The company is now headquartered in Runcorn, Cheshire, as well as having a satellite studio, Bigbig Studios, in Warwickshire.

Both Evolution and Bigbig Studios were acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in September 2007.[1] 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.

Games developed

Game Title Year Released Platform
WRC: World Rally Championship 2001 PlayStation 2
WRC II Extreme 2002 PlayStation 2
WRC 3 2003 PlayStation 2
WRC 4 2004 PlayStation 2
WRC: Rally Evolved 2005 PlayStation 2
MotorStorm 2007 PlayStation 3
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift 2008 PlayStation 3
MotorStorm: Apocalypse 2011 PlayStation 3
MotorStorm: RC 2012 PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3

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