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Ready At Dawn Studios company history timeline

2003

Ready at Dawn was founded in 2003 in Irvine, California, United States by Ru Weerasuriya, Andrea Pessino, Didier Malenfant, and former members of the Sony Computer Entertainment subsidiary Naughty Dog.

2006

They released their first game, Daxter, in 2006.

2008

In June 2008 it was confirmed that the company had ceased developing games for the PSP, and that they had returned the relevant development kits to Sony.

2009

In October 2009, Ready at Dawn began working on a new game engine.

2010

In July 2010, it was announced that Ready at Dawn had made thirteen employees redundant, citing difficulties in finding funding between projects behind the redundancies.

2011

Ready at Dawn released the God of War: Origins Collection for the PlayStation 3 on September 13, 2011.

2015

In June 2015, Ru Weerasuriya, the founder of the company, announced that his position as CEO will be replaced by Paul Sams and will step down to become the company's president and chief creative officer.

2017

Ready at Dawn was in attendance at the large Chinese game publisher, Tencent’s UP Conference in April 2017, this was to announce a partnership to bring Ready at Dawn games into China.

In July 2017, Ready at Dawn released Lone Echo and Echo Arena exclusively for the Oculus Rift.

2018

It is to be believed that this new satellite studio is a part of the development of Ready at Dawn’s new project that was teased back in February 2018.

In November 2018, Ready at Dawn released Echo Combat, a first-person shooter DLC using the same zero-g movement found in Echo Arena, and announced that the company had opened a satellite studio in Portland, Oregon.

2020

Oculus Studios, under Meta Platforms, acquired Ready at Dawn in June 2020 to develop VR titles for the platform.

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Andrea Pessino,Ru Weerasuriya,Didier Malenfant
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