TT Games
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TT Games group is a British
video game developer
and publisher
. It is made up of three divisions, Traveller's Tales
, TT Fusion
and publisher TT Games Publishing. TT games united have been operating since 2005 (both joint).
TT Games Publishing is based in Maidenhead
in Berkshire
, England
, and is the only publisher to specialise in computer and video games
for young gamers and their families.
TT games is well known for their Lego Star Wars
titles. TT Games holds the worldwide rights to develop Lego
video games. TT Games also holds the video game development and publishing rights to "The Guinness World Records" book.
On November 8, 2007 Warner Bros.
announced that they were purchasing the TT Games group for an undisclosed amount as part of their expansion into the video game industry.
have been making games for more than 18 years, with over 45 million copies sold to date. The company employs more than 150 people in their Knutsford
studio under the leadership of Managing Director Jon Burton.
The independent developer Embryonic Studios, formed by the key staff of Gizmondo
/Warthog
, was acquired by Traveller's Tales in 2006. Having been renamed TT Fusion
, it is currently working on DS versions of the console games TT have in production, as well as prototype work on future TT games.
Traveller's Tales Oxford studio closed down. The team were responsible for Crash Twinsanity
and Super Monkey Ball Adventure
.
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
video game developer
Video game developer
A video game developer is a software developer that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.Most developers also...
and publisher
Video game publisher
A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer....
. It is made up of three divisions, Traveller's Tales
Traveller's Tales
Traveller's Tales is an English software house founded in 1989 and fully established in 1990 and based in Knutsford, Cheshire.It is part of the TT Games group—after the merger of publisher Giant Interactive and the developer Traveller's Tales—along with TT Games Publishing...
, TT Fusion
TT Fusion
TT Fusion is a software house based in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England...
and publisher TT Games Publishing. TT games united have been operating since 2005 (both joint).
TT Games Publishing is based in Maidenhead
Maidenhead
Maidenhead is a town and unparished area within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, in Berkshire, England. It lies on the River Thames and is situated west of Charing Cross in London.-History:...
in Berkshire
Berkshire
Berkshire is a historic county in the South of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1957, and...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, and is the only publisher to specialise in computer and video games
Computer and video games
A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device, but following popularization of the term "video game", it now implies any type of...
for young gamers and their families.
TT games is well known for their Lego Star Wars
Lego Star Wars (video game series)
Lego Star Wars is a video game series based on the eponymous toy line created by the Lego Group based on the Star Wars movies.-History:...
titles. TT Games holds the worldwide rights to develop Lego
Lego
Lego is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts...
video games. TT Games also holds the video game development and publishing rights to "The Guinness World Records" book.
On November 8, 2007 Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
announced that they were purchasing the TT Games group for an undisclosed amount as part of their expansion into the video game industry.
Divisions
Traveller's TalesTraveller's Tales
Traveller's Tales is an English software house founded in 1989 and fully established in 1990 and based in Knutsford, Cheshire.It is part of the TT Games group—after the merger of publisher Giant Interactive and the developer Traveller's Tales—along with TT Games Publishing...
have been making games for more than 18 years, with over 45 million copies sold to date. The company employs more than 150 people in their Knutsford
Knutsford
Knutsford is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, in North West England...
studio under the leadership of Managing Director Jon Burton.
The independent developer Embryonic Studios, formed by the key staff of Gizmondo
Gizmondo
The Gizmondo is a handheld gaming console which was released by Tiger Telematics in March 2005. The electronics design was undertaken by Plextek Limited and the industrial design by Rick Dickinson....
/Warthog
Warthog Games
Warthog Games Limited was a UK-based video game developer, located in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, with studios in Sweden and the USA.The developer later developed titles as Gizmondo Europe, before the company disbanded; and key staff formed Embryonic Studios which later became TT...
, was acquired by Traveller's Tales in 2006. Having been renamed TT Fusion
TT Fusion
TT Fusion is a software house based in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England...
, it is currently working on DS versions of the console games TT have in production, as well as prototype work on future TT games.
Traveller's Tales Oxford studio closed down. The team were responsible for Crash Twinsanity
Crash Twinsanity
Crash Twinsanity is an platform video game published by Vivendi Universal Games and developed by Traveller's Tales, for the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox. It was released in North America on October 1, 2004, in Europe on October 8, 2004 and in Japan on November 9, 2004...
and Super Monkey Ball Adventure
Super Monkey Ball Adventure
Super Monkey Ball Adventure is a video game developed by Traveller's Tales in parcery with the division Traveller's Tales Oxford and distributed by Sega in the Super Monkey Ball series, released on June 30, 2006...
.
Titles
| Name | Year | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Leander Leander (video game) Leander is a computer game for the Commodore Amiga developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Psygnosis in 1991. It was the first game to be developed by Traveller's Tales.... |
1991 | Psygnosis |
| Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1993 | Sony Imagesoft Sony Imagesoft Sony Imagesoft was a video game publisher that operated from 1989 to 1995 and was located in California. It was established in January 1989 in Los Angeles, California, as a subsidiary of the Japan-based CBS/Sony Group and initially named CSG Imagesoft Inc. Focus at the beginning was on marketing... |
| Puggsy Puggsy Puggsy is a 1993 platform/puzzle game, designed by Traveller's Tales and released by Psygnosis on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Sega Mega CD/Sega CD consoles, and the Amiga computer... |
1993 | Psygnosis |
| Mickey Mania Mickey Mania Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse is a 1994 video game released for the 16-bit Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega CD, and Super NES. In the game, the player controls Mickey Mouse, who must navigate through various side-scrolling levels, each designed and based from classical Mickey... |
1994 | Sony Imagesoft Sony Imagesoft Sony Imagesoft was a video game publisher that operated from 1989 to 1995 and was located in California. It was established in January 1989 in Los Angeles, California, as a subsidiary of the Japan-based CBS/Sony Group and initially named CSG Imagesoft Inc. Focus at the beginning was on marketing... |
| Disney's Toy Story Toy Story (video game) Toy Story is a video game for the Sega Genesis, the Super Nintendo, Game Boy and Windows 95 PCs, developed by Traveller's Tales and released by Disney Interactive. It is largely based on the movie of the same name. The Japanese version of the game was distributed by Capcom internationally. The game... |
1995 | Disney Interactive |
| Sonic 3D | 1996 | Sega Sega , usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world... |
| Sonic R Sonic R Sonic R is a racing game developed by Traveller's Tales and Sonic Team for the Sega Saturn and PC, the latter version being ported to the GameCube and the PlayStation 2 in Sonic Gems Collection. It features characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog series... |
1997 | Sega Sega , usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world... |
| Rascal Rascal (video game) Rascal is a platform game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Psygnosis and was released for the PlayStation in Europe on March, 1998, in North America on March 31, 1998 and in Japan on March 18, 1999.-Premise:In the game, the player assumes the role of a blonde haired boy named... |
1998 | SCEI Sony Computer Entertainment Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. is a major video game company specializing in a variety of areas in the video game industry, and is a wholly owned subsidiary and part of the Consumer Products & Services Group of Sony... |
| Disney/Pixar's A Bug's Life A Bug's Life (video game) A Bug's Life is a video game based on the Disney·Pixar film of the same name. It was released for various systems in 1998 and 1999. The game's storyline is similar to that of the movie, with a few changes. After completing levels the player can unlock actual clips from the movie. This was actor... |
1998 | Disney Interactive |
| Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue is a platformer based on Pixar's computer animated movie Toy Story 2 and is the sequel to the first game. It was released for the Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Dreamcast, and Windows 95/98/ME PC in 1999 and 2000. A different version of the game was released... |
1999 | Activision Activision Activision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles... |
| Muppet RaceMania Muppet RaceMania Muppet RaceMania is a PlayStation racing game that was developed by Traveller's Tales Ltd., and published by Midway that was released in 2000. The game includes the choice of 25 muppet characters driving 25 vehicles... |
2000 | Midway Midway Games Midway Games, Inc. is an American company that was formerly a major video game publisher. Following a bankruptcy filing in 2009, it is no longer active and is in the process of liquidating all of its assets. Midway's titles included Mortal Kombat, Ms.Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron, Rampage, the... |
| Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is an American animated science fiction/adventure/comedy series produced by Walt Disney Television. The character is from the planet Zurtron. The series originally aired on UPN and ABC from October 2000 to January 2001 as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning... |
2000 | Activision Activision Activision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles... |
| Toy Story Racer Toy Story Racer Toy Story Racer is a kart racing game, similar to Nintendo's Mario Kart series, but based on the Toy Story franchise. The game was released in 2001 for the PlayStation and Game Boy Color systems. The PlayStation version has also been released on the PlayStation Network as a PSOne Classic, in July... |
2001 | Activision Activision Activision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles... |
| Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex is a platform game video game published by Universal Interactive Studios and developed by Traveller's Tales for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube video game consoles. The PlayStation 2 version was released in North America on October 29, 2001, in... |
2001 | Universal Interactive Studios Vivendi Games Vivendi Games, formerly known as Vivendi Universal Games, was the holdings company for Sierra Entertainment and Blizzard Entertainment. Vivendi Games was founded as Vivendi Universal Games after Vivendi bought Universal Studios in the early 2000s... |
| Haven: Call of the King Haven: Call of the King Haven: Call of the King is a single player PlayStation 2 game that is a combination of action, puzzle, and shoot-'em-up styles. Releases were planned for the Xbox and GameCube by Xicat Interactive, Inc., but they were cancelled. The game was created by Traveller's Tales and published by Midway... |
2002 | Midway Midway Games Midway Games, Inc. is an American company that was formerly a major video game publisher. Following a bankruptcy filing in 2009, it is no longer active and is in the process of liquidating all of its assets. Midway's titles included Mortal Kombat, Ms.Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron, Rampage, the... |
| Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo Finding Nemo (video game) Finding Nemo is an action-adventure video game released in 2003 by Traveller's Tales. The game is based on the Finding Nemo film by Disney and Pixar. The goal is to complete different levels as you play of Nemo, Marlin or Dory. It includes cutscenes from the movie and each clip is based on a level,... |
2003 | THQ THQ THQ Inc. is an American developer and publisher of video games. Founded in 1989 in the United States, the company develops products for video game consoles, handheld game systems, as well as for personal computers and wireless devices... |
| Crash Twinsanity Crash Twinsanity Crash Twinsanity is an platform video game published by Vivendi Universal Games and developed by Traveller's Tales, for the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox. It was released in North America on October 1, 2004, in Europe on October 8, 2004 and in Japan on November 9, 2004... |
2004 | Vivendi Universal Games |
| Lego Star Wars: The Video Game LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game Lego Star Wars: The Video Game is a video game based on the Star Wars themed toy line by the Lego Group and the first game in TT Games' Lego videogame franchise. It takes place during the prequel trilogy , with a bonus segment from A New Hope... |
2005 | Lucasarts LucasArts LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s... |
| WRC World Rally Championship (video game series) World Rally Championship is a video game series made by Evolution Studios between 2001 and 2005. The series consists of five original games released for the Sony PlayStation 2 console, and one Sony PSP port, all based on the World Rally Championship using official drivers, cars and tracks... (PSP PlayStation Portable The is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004... version) |
2005 | SCEI Sony Computer Entertainment Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. is a major video game company specializing in a variety of areas in the video game industry, and is a wholly owned subsidiary and part of the Consumer Products & Services Group of Sony... |
| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (video game) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is an action-adventure game released in 2005 by Traveller's Tales. The game is based on the novel-adapted movie of the same name... |
2005 | Buena Vista Games Buena Vista Games Disney Interactive Studios, Inc. , is a Worldwide American video game company... |
| F1 Grand Prix | 2005 | SCEI Sony Computer Entertainment Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. is a major video game company specializing in a variety of areas in the video game industry, and is a wholly owned subsidiary and part of the Consumer Products & Services Group of Sony... |
| Super Monkey Ball Adventure Super Monkey Ball Adventure Super Monkey Ball Adventure is a video game developed by Traveller's Tales in parcery with the division Traveller's Tales Oxford and distributed by Sega in the Super Monkey Ball series, released on June 30, 2006... |
2006 | Sega Sega , usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world... |
| Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy | 2006 | Lucasarts LucasArts LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s... |
| Bionicle Heroes Bionicle Heroes Bionicle Heroes is a 3D video game of the third-person shooter genre, based on Lego popular Bionicle franchise. It was released in November 2006 by TT Games on PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Nintendo GameCube, Microsoft Windows and It was released in November 2006 by Amaze Entertainment on Game Boy... |
2006 | Eidos Interactive Eidos Interactive Eidos Interactive Ltd. is a British video game publisher and is a label of Square Enix Europe. As an independent company Eidos plc was headquartered in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton.... |
| Transformers: The Game Transformers: The Game Transformers: The Game is the name of multiple versions of a video game based on the 2007 live action film Transformers, all of which were released in North America in June 2007. Home console and PC versions were developed by Traveller's Tales for the PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 3 and... |
2007 | Activision Activision Activision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles... |
| Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga is a video game based on the Star Wars-themed toy line by the Lego Group. It is a combination of the game Lego Star Wars: The Video Game and its sequel Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy... |
2007 | Lucasarts LucasArts LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s... |
| Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures is a 2008 video game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by LucasArts. The game allows players to recreate moments from the first three Indiana Jones films: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Indiana Jones and the... |
2008 | Lucasarts LucasArts LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s... |
| Lego Batman: The Video Game Lego Batman: The Video Game Lego Batman: The Videogame is a action-adventure video game, created for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, Mac OS X and Wii. The game is based on the comic book character Batman and the Lego Batman toy line... |
2008 | Warner Bros./DC Comics DC Comics DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner... |
| The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (video game) The Wii version received an average score of 63% based on 5 critics reviews on the review aggregator Metacritic. The play Station 3 and Xbox 360 version received an average score of 56% based on 16 ps3 and 24 xbox reviews on the review aggregator Metacritic.... |
2008 | Disney Interactive Studios |
| Guinness World Records: The Video Game Guinness World Records: The Video Game Guinness World Records: The Video Game is a video game based on the best-selling Guinness World Records series of books with world records such as Sheep Shearing, Phone Book tearing, Airplane eating and growing the worlds longest fingernails... |
2008 | Warner Bros. |
| Lego Battles Lego Battles LEGO Battles is a video game developed by Hellbent Games and co-published by TT Games. It was released on June 9, 2009 for the Nintendo DS. There are a total of three different stories in the game, each with the option of playing as the protagonists or the antagonists... |
2009 | Warner Bros. |
| Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues is a 2009 video game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by LucasArts. It is the sequel to the 2008 game, Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures... |
2009 | Lucasarts LucasArts LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s... |
| What's Your News? What's Your News? What's Your News? is a children's television programme on Nick Jr. and CBC Kids launched in January 2009. It is billed as the first ever news show for and about 4-7 year old children and helps their transition from their home and family environment into the wider world around them.-Overview:What's... (TV show) |
2009 | Kids CBC CBC Television CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are... |
| Lego Rock Band Lego Rock Band Lego Rock Band is a music video game and part of the Rock Band series developed by Harmonix Music Systems, but also incorporates elements from other Lego video games as developed by Traveller's Tales. The game is published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and MTV Games... |
2009 | Warner Bros./Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers... |
| Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 | 2010 | Warner Bros. |
| Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is a 2011 Lego game for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, PC and Nintendo 3DS consoles based on The Clone Wars animated series, developed by Traveller's Tales and published by LucasArts and TT Games, released in March 2011 and is... |
2011 | Lucasarts LucasArts LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s... |
| Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game is a video game in the Lego video game franchise, developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Disney Interactive Studios and the first Lego game from a Disney movie... |
2011 | Disney Interactive Studios |
| Lego Battles: Ninjago Lego Battles: Ninjago Lego Battles Ninjago is a Video Game published on April 12, 2011 in North America and April 15, 2011 in PAL territories for the Nintendo DS and is a follow-up to Lego Battles video game. Both games were developed by Hellbent Games and co-published by TT Games... |
2011 | Warner Bros. |
| Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 | 2011 | Warner Bros. |
| Lego City Stories Lego City Stories LEGO City Stories is a upcoming sandbox-style action-adventure video game, currently in development by TT Fusion, a division of TT Games, to be released on the Nintendo 3DS and the Wii U in 2012.... |
2012 | Nintendo Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel.... |