Insomniac Games
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American video game developer
Key facts
- Formerly
- Xtreme Software, Inc. (1994–1995)
- Company type
- Subsidiary
- Industry
- Video games
- Founded
- February 28, 1994 ; 32 years ago ( 1994-02-28 )
- Founder
- Ted Price
- Headquarters
- Burbank, California , US
- Number of locations
- 2 studios
- Key people
- Ryan Schneider (co-studio head), Jen Huang (co-studio head), Chad Dezern (co-studio head)
- Products
- Spyro series (1998–2000) Ratchet & Clank series (2002–2021) Resistance series (2006–2011) Sunset Overdrive (2014) Marvel's Spider-Man (2018–present)
- Number of employees
- 450 (2025)
- Parent
- PlayStation Studios (2019–present)
- Website
- insomniac .games
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game publisher
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Ted Price
- Headquarters
- Burbank
- Owned by
- PlayStation Studios
- Parent organization
- PlayStation Studios
- Industry
- video game industry
- Employees
- 520
- Legal form
- subsidiary company
- Official website
- insomniac.games
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- social media followers
- 93000
- topic's main category
- Category:Insomniac Games
- inception
- 1994-02-28
- director / manager
- Ted Price
- Commons category
- Insomniac Games
- product or material produced
- video game
- floruit
- 2022-00-00
- has works in the collection
- Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
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Encyclopedic overview
Insomniac Games, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Burbank, California, and part of PlayStation Studios. It was founded in 1994 by Ted Price as Xtreme Software, and was renamed Insomniac Games a year later. The company is most known for developing several early PlayStation mascots, Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet and Clank, as well as the Resistance franchise, 2014's Sunset Overdrive and the Marvel's Spider-Man series with Marvel Games. In 2019, the studio was acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment, becoming a part of SIE Worldwide Studios (now known as PlayStation Studios).
The company's first project was Disruptor, for PlayStation, whose poor sales almost led to the company's bankruptcy. Insomniac's next project was Spyro the Dragon, a successful video game that spawned two sequels within two years. Insomniac closely collaborated with Sony Computer Entertainment (later renamed Sony Interactive Entertainment) and created two game franchises, Ratchet & Clank, and Resistance. The two franchises proved to be both a critical and financial success for the company. The company began work on its first multiplatform game Fuse in 2013 (with Electronic Arts as its publisher), but the game turned out to become one of Insomniac's worst-reviewed games.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Insomniac Games” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.