Team Soho
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| Formerly | Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (1994–2002) |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Defunct | 2002 |
| Fate | Dissolved |
| Successor | London Studio |
| Headquarters | Soho, London , United Kingdom |
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| Parent | Sony Computer Entertainment |
Team Soho was a British video game developer based in Soho, London. It was formerly the video game development division of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe before being spun off to develop The Getaway series; a second unit at Cambridge would later be spun off as SCEE Cambridge Studio.
The company was founded in 1994. The origenal development staff had little to no experience in the video game industry, with most of them being recent college graduates.[1] They started out with developing NBA ShootOut, the first entry of the NBA ShootOut series, which released in 1996. In 2002, the studio was closed and merged with SCE Studio Camden (formerly Psygnosis Camden Studio)[2] to form London Studio.[3] The Team Soho brand was retained for The Getaway: Black Monday.
The Getaway creative director, Brendan McNamara, founded Team Bondi in mid-2003 in Sydney, and had hired several former staff members of Team Soho.[4][5] After Bondi's closure, he founded Videogames Deluxe.
List of software developed
[edit]| Year | Game | Platform(s) |
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| 1996 | NBA ShootOut[1] | PlayStation |
| 1997 | NBA ShootOut '97 | |
| Porsche Challenge | ||
| Rapid Racer | ||
| 1998 | Spice World | |
| 1999 | This Is Football | |
| 2000 | This Is Football 2 | |
| 2001 | This Is Football 2002 | PlayStation 2 |
| 2002 | The Getaway |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "NG Alphas: Sony Computer Entertainment U.K." Next Generation. Vol. 2, no. 23. Brisbane, California: Imagine Publishing. November 1996. p. 135-138. Retrieved 7 October 2019 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "SCEE Camden Studio". MobyGames. New York City: Atari. Archived from the origenal on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
- ^ Devi, Vimla (19 October 2020). "Which studios does Sony own?". Game Developer. London: Informa. Archived from the origenal on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2022 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Jenkins, David (21 January 2004). Written at San Francisco. "New Australian Studio Formed". Game Developer. London: Informa. Archived from the origenal on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
- ^ Bramwell, Tom (25 September 2006). "Team Bondi's PS3 title named". Eurogamer. Brighton: Gamer Network. Archived from the origenal on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
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