Insomniac Games
Formerly Name: Xtreme Software (1994-1995)
Company Profile: Developer
Company Type::
Public Company (1994-2019)
Subsidiary of PlayStation Studios (2019)
Parent Company: PlayStation Studios (2019)
Headquarters: Burbank, California, USA
Founded: 28 February 1994
Founder: Ted Price
Fate: Active
Insomniac Games, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Burbank, California and part of PlayStation Studios. It was founded in 1994 by Ted Price as Xtreme Software, and was renamed Insomniac Games a year later. The company is most known for developing several early PlayStation mascots, Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet and Clank, as well as the Resistance franchise, 2014's Sunset Overdrive and the Marvel's Spider-Man series with Marvel Games. In 2019, the studio was acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment, becoming a part of SIE Worldwide Studios (now known as PlayStation Studios).
Before 2019, Insomniac remained as an independent studio working for Sony and other publishers such as Microsoft, EA, and Oculus. In August 2019, Sony announced it had agreed to acquire Insomniac as the 14th internal studio within SIE Worldwide Studios. Over the years, Insomniac Games has received considerable recognition from critics as an acclaimed video game developer. It was named the twentieth-best video game developer by IGN, and one of the best places to work in America by the Society for Human Resource Management.
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Company Structure
Key People: Ted Price (chief executive officer)
Games Developed by Insomniac Games
TITLE | LAUNCH DATE | RATING | GENRE | PLATFORM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Marvel's Wolverine | TBA | - | - | PS5 |
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 | 2023 | - | - | PS5 |
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart | 2021 | - | - | PS5, Win |
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered | 2020 | - | - | PS5, Win |
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales | 2020 | - | - | PS4, PS5, Win |
Strangelets | 2019 | - | - | Magic Leap One |
Stormland | 2019 | - | - | Win |
Seedling | 2018 | - | - | Magic Leap One |
Marvel's Spider-Man | 2018 | - | - | PS4 |
Feral Rites | 2016 | - | - | Win |
The Unspoken | 2016 | - | - | Win |
Edge of Nowhere | 2016 | - | - | Win |
Song of the Deep | 2016 | - | - | PS4, XBO, Win |
Ratchet & Clank | 2016 | - | - | PS4 |
Digit & Dash | 2015 | - | - | iOS |
Bad Dinos | 2015 | - | - | And, iOS |
Fruit Fusion | 2015 | - | - | And, iOS |
Slow Down, Bull | 2015 | - | - | Lin, Mac, Win |
Sunset Overdrive | 2014 | - | - | XBO, Win |
Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus | 2013 | - | - | PS3 |
Fuse | 2013 | - | - | PS3, X360 |
Outernauts | 2012 | - | - | iOS |
Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault | 2012 | - | - | PS3, PSV |
Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One | 2011 | - | - | PS3 |
Resistance 3 | 2011 | - | - | PS3 |
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time | 2009 | - | - | PS3 |
Resistance 2 | 2008 | - | - | PS3 |
Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty | 2008 | - | - | PS3 |
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction | 2007 | - | - | PS3 |
Resistance: Fall of Man | 2006 | - | - | PS3 |
Ratchet: Deadlocked | 2005 | - | - | PS2 |
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal | 2004 | - | - | PS2 |
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando | 2003 | - | - | PS2 |
Ratchet & Clank | 2002 | - | - | PS2 |
Spyro: Year of the Dragon | 2000 | - | - | PSX |
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! | 1999 | - | - | PSX |
Spyro the Dragon | 1998 | - | - | PSX |
Disruptor | 1996 | - | - | PSX |