Insomniac Games

Insomniac Games is an American video game developer founded in 1994. The company has created many games. This  includes the first three Spyro the Dragon titles for the PlayStation, most of the Ratchet & Clank games for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, the Resistance series for the PlayStation 3, and the Marvel's Spider-Man game series for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. 

Their first game was Disruptor, released for the PlayStation. To date, they have sold 32 million copies of their games and received numerous awards. Since 2005, Insomniac Games has earned eight "best workplace" awards.

Company
Insomniac started in 1994, and is now based in Burbank, California. Its first game, a first-person shooter called Disruptor, was released on November 20, 1996 for the PlayStation. It was given very good reviews by critics, but did not sell many copies. After this game, they made the Spyro the Dragon for the PlayStation. This series was very successful, and Insomniac made the first three games in the series. After Insomniac lost the license to the Spyro series to Universal Interactive, they began working on a game called Girl with a Stick. The developers at Insomniac didn't like this game, so they decided to make the Ratchet & Clank series instead. The first game in the series, Ratchet & Clank, was released on November 4, 2002. It got very high reviews, and Insomniac have made six more Ratchet & Clank games since. Ratchet & Clank games have so far sold 25 million copies. In 2006, Insomniac released their first PlayStation 3 game, Resistance: Fall of Man, and released Resistance 2 in 2008. Resistance 3 was released in 2011.

People
Ted Price (President & CEO)
Alex Hastings (Chief Technology Officer)
Brian Hastings (Chief Creative Officer)
Chad Dezern (North Carolina Studio Director)
See also: Team members 

Games

Game name  US Release Date  Platform Disruptor  November 20, 1996  PlayStationSpyro the Dragon  September 10, 1998  PlayStationSpyro 2: Ripto's Rage!  November 2, 1999  PlayStationSpyro: Year of the Dragon  October 11, 2000  PlayStationRatchet & Clank  November 7, 2002  PlayStation 2Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando  November 11, 2003  PlayStation 2Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal  November 2, 2004   PlayStation 2Ratchet: Deadlocked  October 25, 2005  PlayStation 2Resistance: Fall of Man  November 17, 2006  PlayStation 3Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction  October 23, 2007  PlayStation 3Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty  August 21, 2008  PlayStation 3Resistance 2  November 4, 2008  PlayStation 3Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time  October 27, 2009  PlayStation 3Resistance 3  September 6, 2011  PlayStation 3Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One  October 18, 2011  PlayStation 3Ratchet & Clank Collection  June 29, 2012  PlayStation 3Outernauts  July 2012  FacebookRatchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault  November 27, 2012  PlayStation 3, PlayStation VitaFuse  March 2013  PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Other developers

High Impact Games
High Impact Games is a game developer made by people who used to work at Insomniac. They made two Ratchet & Clank games for the PlayStation Portable, called Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank. They also made a PlayStation 2 version of Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters. They made a Jak and Daxter game, called Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier, for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. It is the first Jak and Daxter game not made by Naughty Dog, who are also close friends of Insomniac Games.

References

Category:Video game companies of the United States
Category:Companies based in Burbank, California
Category:1994 establishments in California