PlayStation Studios

**PlayStation Studios**, formerly **SCE Worldwide Studios** and **SIE Worldwide Studios**, is a video games company owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

## History

**SCE Worldwide Studios** was founded in 2005. When Sony rebranded Sony Computer Entertainment to Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2016, the company was also rebranded to **SIE Worldwide Studios.**

In 2020, the company changed it's name to **PlayStation Studios** with the release of the PlayStation 5.

### Current

|Name|Location(s)|Founded|Acquired|Notable games|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Bend Studio|Bend, Oregon|1993|2000|Syphon Filter, Uncharted: Golden Abyss|||||
|Bluepoint Games|Austin, Texas|2006|2021|Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, Shadow of the Colossus|||||
|Firesprite|Liverpool|2012|2021|Run Sackboy! Run, Horizon: Call of the Mountain|||||
|Guerrilla Games|Amsterdam|2000|2005|Killzone, Horizon|||||
|Haven Studios|Montreal, Quebec|2021|2022|_Fairgame$_|||||
|Housemarque|Helsinki|1995|2021|Super Stardust HD, Dead Nation|||||
|rowspan="2"|Insomniac Games|Burbank, California|rowspan="2"|1994|rowspan="2"|2019|rowspan="2'|Spyro, Ratchet & Clank|
|Durham, North Carolina|||||||||
|Malaysia Studio|Kuala Lumpur|2020|—|Support for first-party titles, such as The Last of Us Part I and MLB The Show 22|||||
|Media Molecule|Guildford|2006|2010|LittleBigPlanet, Tearaway|||||
|Naughty Dog|Santa Monica, California|1984|2001|Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter|||||
|Nixxes Software|Utrecht|1999|2021|Microsoft Windows ports of Ghost of Tsushima and Horizon|||||
|Polyphony Digital|Tokyo, Japan|1998|—|Gran Turismo, Motor Toon Grand Prix|||||
|San Diego Studio|San Diego, California|2001|—|The Mark of Kri, NBA|||||
|San Mateo Studio|San Mateo, California|1998|—|Support for second-party developers|||||
|Santa Monica Studio|Los Angeles, California|1999|—|Kinetica, God of War|||||
|Sucker Punch Productions|Bellevue, Washington|1997|2011|Ghost of Tsushima, Ghost of Yōtei|||||
|Team Asobi|Tokyo, Japan|2021|—|Astro Bot, The Playroom|||||
|Valkyrie Entertainment|Seattle, Washington|2002|2021|Support studio for several franchises, such as Infamous and God of War|||||
|rowspan="3"|XDev|Liverpool|rowspan="3"|2000|rowspan="3"|—|rowspan="3"|Works with third-party developers and projects, such as Until Dawn and Rise of the Ronin|
|San Mateo, California|||||||||
|Tokyo, Japan|||||||||

### Former

|Name|Location(s)|Founded|Acquired|Defunct/divested|Fate||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|BigBig Studios|Leamington Spa|2001|2007|2012|Closed||||||
|Evolution Studios|Runcorn|1999|2007|2016|Closed||||||
|Firewalk Studios|Bellevue, Washington|2018|2023|2024|Closed||||||
|Guerrilla Cambridge|Cambridge|1997|—|2017|Closed||||||
|Incognito Entertainment|Salt Lake City, Utah|1999|2002|2009|Closed||||||
|Japan Studio|Tokyo|1993|—|2021|Rearranged within SIE (merged with Team Asobi and other studios)||||||
|London Studio|London|2002|—|2024|Closed||||||
|Manchester Studio|Manchester|2015|—|2020|Closed||||||
|rowspan="2"|Neon Koi|Berlin|rowspan="2"|2020|rowspan="2"|2022|rowspan="2"|2024|rowspan="2"|Closed|
|Helsinki|||||||||||
|Pixelopus|San Mateo, California|2014|—|2023|Closed||||||
|Studio Liverpool|Liverpool|1984|1993|2012|Closed||||||
|Zipper Interactive|Redmond, Washington|1995|2006|2012|Closed||||||

## Infobox (company)

- **name**: PlayStation Studios
- **logo**: PlayStation Studios logo with a black center frame.svg
- **logo caption**: Logo used since 2020
- **type**: Division (business), Division
- **industry**: Video games
- **hq location city**: San Mateo, California, San Mateo, California
- **hq location country**: United States
- **key people**: Hermen Hulst (Chief Executive Officer, CEO)
- **num employees**: ≈ 4,000
- **num employees year**: 2022
- **parent**: Sony Interactive Entertainment
- **subsid**: See