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Insomniac Games history
Insomniac Games company history timeline
The company was incorporated on February 28, 1994.
Price was joined by Alex Hastings, his fellow graduate and an expert in computer programming, in June 1994.
The studio was named "Xtreme Software" for a year but in 1995 it was forced to rename itself by another company with the same name.
The debut title was called Disruptor, and was released worldwide in November 1996.
Spyro the Dragon was released in late 1998.
Insomniac's ideas for its first PlayStation 2 project included Monster Knight, a concept that was designed in 1999 but the game did not get beyond its planning stage.
Sales of the game were relatively low initially, but climbed after Christmas that year, and overall sales of the game exceeded two million. It met its target release window, and was released in late 1999.
Spyro: Year of the Dragon was released worldwide in late 2000.
The game's title was Ratchet & Clank; it was originally to be a launch title for the PlayStation 2 but it was delayed by two years and was released in November 2002.
Ratchet: Deadlocked was released in 2005.
The sequel, Resistance 2, was released in 2008.
Both the Resistance franchise and the Ratchet & Clank franchise continued into the 2010s.
Insomniac had exclusively developed games for the PlayStation console until in 2010 when Insomniac announced its partnership with Electronic Arts via EA Partners to develop a multi-platform game for the PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 console.
The EA Partners game was revealed at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 as Overstrike.
Outernauts was announced shortly after; it was released in July 2012 for browsers and mobile platforms.
In early 2012, Price announced that the company would not be involved in any future Resistance projects.
The company developed many weapons for the game, none of which related to the game's story. It was renamed Fuse and was released worldwide in May 2013.
Sunset Overdrive was made for Microsoft's Xbox One console; it was released on the 20th anniversary of Insomniac, in 2014.
During E3 2015, the company announced Edge of Nowhere, a third-person action-adventure game for the virtual reality hardware Oculus Rift.
In January 2016, Insomniac announced their next game, Song of the Deep, a water-based video game inspired by Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
Insomniac released a remake of Ratchet & Clank for the PlayStation 4 in 2016.
In September 2017, Insomniac Games revealed its new brand logo, which replaced the moon image standing in for the "O" with a more stylized iconograph.
The acquisition, for which Sony paid ¥24,895 million (equivalent to $229 million), was completed on November 15, 2019.
At the PlayStation 5 reveal event on June 11, 2020, Insomniac announced two new games: Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, a spin-off to Marvel's Spider-Man, and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
The latter released on June 11, 2021, exclusively for the PS5.
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Insomniac Games competitors
| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naughty Dog | 1986 | $3.0M | 497 | 21 |
| Daybreak Game | 2015 | $25.0M | 450 | 15 |
| Treyarch | 1996 | $38.0M | 626 | - |
| n-Space | 1994 | $49.9M | 61 | - |
| Foundation 9 Entertainment | 1997 | $47.1M | 750 | - |
| Heavy Iron Studios | 1999 | $6.2M | 43 | - |
| Epic Games | 1991 | $500.0M | 1,001 | 111 |
| Obsidian Entertainment | 2003 | $18.0M | 200 | 9 |
| ArenaNet | 2000 | $111.0M | 400 | 4 |
| ZeniMax Media | 1999 | $510.6M | 2,301 | 36 |
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Insomniac Games may also be known as or be related to Insomniac Games, Insomniac Games Inc and Xtreme Software, Inc. (1994–1995).