Industry Video game industry Subsidiaries Hello Labs Limited Headquarters Guildford Founded 4 August 2008 | Area served Worldwide Website hellogames.org Number of employees 16 (2016) Type of business Private | |
Key people Sean Murray (company director)
Louise Murray (company secretary) Products Joe Danger series
No Man's Sky Founders Grant Duncan, Sean Murray, Ryan Doyle, David Ream Video games No Man's Sky, Joe Danger, Joe Danger 2: The Movie Profiles | ||
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Hello Games Ltd is a British video game developer and publisher based in Guildford, England, who are best known for the science fiction adventure game No Man's Sky.
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History
Hello Games was founded in August 2008 by former employees from other video game companies, such as Criterion Games, Electronic Arts, and Kuju Entertainment. At the 2010 Develop Awards, they won two awards: Best New Studio and Best Micro Studio. In September 2010, they were listed by The Guardian as one of the 100 most innovative and creative companies of the previous 12 months. At the 2011 Gamescom press event, they announced their second game, Joe Danger 2: The Movie. Hello Games announced a new science fiction adventure game, titled No Man's Sky, at the VGX 2013 award show. On 24 December 2013, the studio's offices were flooded after a nearby river broke its bank, with much of the hardware used in the development in the game being destroyed.
Originally, No Man's Sky had been set for release in June 2016, but a month prior, Murray announced that the game had been delayed due to need for last minute fixes and polishing, and would launch two months later in August. After the release of No Man's Sky, Hello Games was accused of dishonesty surrounding their promotion of the game, and the subsequent lack of promised features.
At the 2017 Game Developers Conference, Hello Games announced Hello Labs, an initiative to fund multiple experimental and procedural generation projects.