Exient Entertainment

Exient Entertainment (also known as Exient Limited) is an independent video game developer based in Oxford, United Kingdom with additional development studios in Leamington Spa, United Kingdom, and Malta.^[1] Mainly developing for handheld gaming systems, Excient grew a name for itself shrinking popular series' games to portable systems. It is known for its ports of various games in the Madden NFL, FIFA, Need for Speed, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour series for Electronic Arts and for developing numerous titles in the Angry Birds series. The company was incorporated in 2000 and began operations in January 2001.

Until 2013, the bulk of their development was for dedicated portable gaming platforms such as PSP, Nintendo DS, and Game Boy Advance but since 2014 their games have been developed for Android and iOS only. Exient currently develops its games on a proprietary, in-house developed, engine named XGS.

Games developed

2017

• Top Gear: Donut Dash (iOS, Android) - published by BBC Worldwide ^[2]

2016

• Dancing with the Stars (iOS, Android) - published by Donut Publishing

2014

• Angry Birds Transformers (iOS and Android)
• Bake Escape (iOS) - published by Donut Publishing

2013

• Angry Birds Go!" (Android/iOS/Blackberry 10)
• Diggs Nightcrawler (PS3)
• Angry Birds Trilogy (Vita)
• Angry Birds Star Wars(PS3/PS4/PS Vita/X360/Xbox One/Wii/Wii U/3DS)
• CSR Racing (Android)

2012

• Angry Birds Trilogy (3DS/PSVita)
• Fireworks (PSVita)
• Pulzar (PSVita)

2010

• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (Wii)
• The Sims 3 (NDS)
• FIFA 11 (NDS)
• X2 Football 2010 (iOS) - published by X2 Games
• X2 Snowboarding (iOS) - published by X2 Games

2009

• FIFA 10 (NDS)
• DJ Hero (Wii/PS2)
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour (iOS)
• X2 Football 2009 (iOS)

2008

• FIFA 09 (NDS)
• Madden NFL 09 (NDS)
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 (PS2/PSP)
• Skate It (NDS)
• Need for Speed: Undercover (Wii/PS2)
• FIFA Street 3 (NDS) ^[3]

2007

• NASCAR 08 (PS2)
• FIFA 08 (NDS)
• Madden NFL 08 (NDS)
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 (NDS)
• Need for Speed: ProStreet (NDS)

2006

• FIFA Street 2 (NDS)
• 2006 FIFA World Cup (GBA/NDS/PSP)
• Madden NFL 07 (GBA/NDS)
• FIFA 07 (GBA/NDS)
• NASCAR 07 (PSP) ^[4]
• Need for Speed: Carbon (NDS)

2005

• FIFA Football 2005 (Gizmondo)
• SSX 3 (Gizmondo)
• Madden NFL 06 (GBA/NDS)
• FIFA 06 (GBA/NDS)

2004

• Madden NFL 2005 (GBA/NDS)
• FIFA Soccer 2005 (GBA/N-Gage)
• SSX Out Of Bounds (N-Gage)
• WWE Aftershock (N-Gage)

2003

• Total Soccer (Mobile)
• FIFA Soccer 2004 (GBA/N-Gage)
• NCAA Football 2004 (N-Gage)

2002

• Alex Ferguson's Player Manager 2002 (GBA) - published by Ubisoft
• FIFA Soccer 2002 (PDA)
• NHL Hitz 20-03 (GBA)
• FIFA Football (GBA)

2001

• Steven Gerrard's Total Soccer 2002 (GBA) - published by Ubisoft

Awards

• TIGA Best Casual Game 2013 Diggs Nightcrawler
• BAFTA Best Handheld Game (Nominated), The Sims 3 (NDS)
• Gamescom 2010 Best Mobile Title (Nominated), The Sims 3 (NDS)^[5]
• IGN 2007 Best Sports Game^[6]
• IGN 2007 Best Developer^[7]
• Pocket PC Magazine Best Software Award 2003 Total Soccer
• IGN Best Handheld Sports Game 2003 FIFA 04 GBA
• IGN Best Handheld Sports Game 2005 FIFA Soccer 06 NDS
• TIGA Best Handheld Games Development Studio 2005^[8]
• Develop 100 - The World’s Most Successful Game Studios - 2007 Edition - (position 50)^[9][10]
• Develop 100 - The World’s Most Successful Game Studios - 2009 Edition - (position 67)^[11]

References

• GameSpot – All Games by Exient Entertainment
• GameSpot, August 15, 2005 – Review of WWE Aftershock

External links

• Exient official website
• Exient Entertainment entry at MobyGames
• Companies House – Exient Limited – Company No. 04028014