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Type
  
Division

Founded
  
14 September 2005

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Industry
  
Interactive entertainment, computer and video games

Number of locations
  
United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Japan

Key people
  
Shawn Layden (Chairman) Shuhei Yoshida (President)

Website
  
www.worldwidestudios.net

Subsidiaries
  
SIE Japan Studio, Naughty Dog

Locations
  
United States of America, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Japan

Parent organization
  
Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, abbreviated SIE Worldwide Studios, is a group of video game developers owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment, which was established in 2005. It is a single internal entity overseeing all wholly owned development studios within SIE. It is responsible for the creative and strategic direction of development and production of all computer entertainment software by all SIE-owned studios, all of which is produced exclusively for the PlayStation family of consoles.

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2005–2009

  • Guerrilla Games, developers of the Killzone series was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment as part of its SCE WWS.
  • 989 Studios, developers of various sport games, was closed.
  • Zipper Interactive, developers of the SOCOM series was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment as part of its SCE WWS.
  • Evolution Studios and BigBig Studios, developers of the MotorStorm series and Pursuit Force series, were acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment as part of its SCE WWS.
  • Incognito Entertainment, developers of the Twisted Metal series and Warhawk, was closed.

    • 2010–2014

  • Media Molecule, developers of the PlayStation 3 game LittleBigPlanet, was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment as part of its SCE WWS.
  • Sucker Punch Productions, developers of the Sly Cooper series and Infamous series, was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment as part of its SCE WWS.
  • BigBig Studios, developers of the Pursuit Force series, MotorStorm: Arctic Edge and Little Deviants was closed.
  • Cambridge Studio was renamed as Guerrilla Cambridge, becoming a sister studio to Guerrilla Games
  • Zipper Interactive, developers of the SOCOM series, MAG and Unit 13 was closed.
  • Studio Liverpool, developer of the Wipeout and Formula One series was closed.
  • PixelOpus, developers of Entwined was announced by Sony Computer Entertainment as part of its SCE WWS.

    • 2015–present

  • North West Studio, a Virtual Reality focused studio making games for PlayStation VR.
  • Evolution Studios, developers of the MotorStorm series and Driveclub was closed.
  • On March 24, 2016, Sony announced the formation of ForwardWorks, a new company that was aimed to deploy new services toward the smartdevice market.
  • On January 12, 2017, Sony confirmed the closure of Guerrilla Cambridge.

    • ICE Team

    Naughty Dog is home to the ICE Team, one of Sony's Worldwide Studios central technology groups. The term ICE originally stands for Initiative for a Common Engine which describes the original purpose of the group. The ICE Team focuses on creating core graphics technologies for Sony's worldwide first party published titles, including low level game engine components, graphics processing pipelines, supporting tools, and graphics profiling and debugging tools. The ICE Team also supports third party developers with a suite of engine components, and a graphics analysis, profiling, and debugging tool for the RSX. Both enable developers to get better performance out of PlayStation hardwares.

    XDev

    Sony XDev Europe collaborates with independent development studios across Europe and other PAL territories to publish content to PlayStation platforms all over the world. The Studio Liverpool-based XDev has helped to create and publish, titles such as the LittleBigPlanet, Buzz!, MotorStorm and Invizimals series, Super Stardust HD, Heavenly Sword, Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, Tearaway and Resogun. Partners include independent developers such as Quantic Dream, Magenta Software, Housemarque, Climax Studios, Novarama, Supermassive Games and Sumo Digital, as well as SCE subsidiaries such as Media Molecule and Guerrilla Games. In addition to funding projects, XDev offer full production, project management and game design support. Titles are also supported with community management, online production and dedicated outsourcing management facilities. XDev work directly with Marketing and PR teams in all Sony territories to promote and publish games worldwide.

    SN Systems

    SN Systems is a provider of Windows development tools for all the PlayStation-brand platforms since the original. SN Systems was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. in 2005, to provide tools for the PlayStation 3, and future consoles.

    SCEE R&D

    SCEE R&D are technical experts on topics relating to any of the PlayStation platforms. The group is unique in that they report directly to both SCEE Central as well the Tokyo-based SCEI R&D Organization that designs PlayStation hardware. They do not create games; however, they supply the raw technical materials that game developers utilize to create games.

    References

    SIE Worldwide Studios Wikipedia
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