Bigbig Studios was a British

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based in

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, England. It was founded in 2001 by a core team of four former

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employees. The company was set up with the help of

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Evolution Studios Evolution Studios Ltd. was a British video game developer based in Runcorn, Cheshire. The company was founded in 1999 by Martin Kenwright and Ian Hetherington, following the purchase of their studio Digital Image Design's publisher Ocean Soft ...

. Bigbig Studios and Evolution Studios were both acquired by

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in September 2007, which was confirmed in an interview and Bigbig Studios were assigned to work exclusively for the portable PlayStation products with the releases of the ''

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'' games, and '' MotorStorm: Arctic Edge'' for the

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and

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plus ''

Little Deviants ''Little Deviants'', known in Japan as , is a Minigame, minigame compilation, developed by Bigbig Studios for the PlayStation Vita. The game was released on 17 December 2011 in Japan, 15 February 2012 in North America, 22 February 2012 in Europe, ...

'' for the

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On 10 January 2012, Sony confirmed that it would close Bigbig Studios.

Games developed

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