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List Of Sony Subsidiaries
This is a list of assets owned by Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation. Subsidiaries and affiliates by business segment Electronics * Sony Corporation ** Sony Global Manufacturing & Operations Corporation Sony Semiconductor Solutions Group * Sony Semiconductor Solutions ** Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing **Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (joint venture with TSMC and Denso) ** Sony Semiconductor Israel (formerly Altair Semiconductor) ** Sony Depthsensing Solutions (formerly SoftKinetic) ** Sony Advanced Visual Sensing Sony Interactive Entertainment / PlayStation * Audeze * Audiokinetic * Bungie * Evolution Championship Series (joint venture with Endeavor) * Gaikai * iSize * PlayStation Productions * PlayStation Studios ** Bluepoint Games ** Creative Arts *** Visual Arts *** Music *** Sound *** Creative ** Dark Outlaw Games ** Firesprite *** Fabrik Games ** Guerrilla Games ** Haven Studios ** Housemarque ** Insomniac Games *** Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Logo
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including Sony Corporation (electronics), Sony Semiconductor Solutions (imaging and sensing), Sony Entertainment (including Sony Pictures and Sony Music Group), Sony Interactive Entertainment (video games), Sony Financial Group, and others. Sony was founded in 1946 as by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita. In 1958, the company adopted the name Initially an electronics firm, it gained early recognition for products such as the TR-55 transistor radio and the CV-2000 home video tape recorder, contributing significantly to Japan's Japanese economic miracle, post-war economic recovery. After Ibuka's retirement in the 1970s, Morita served as chairman until 1994, overseeing Sony's rise as a global brand recognized for innovation in consumer electronics. Landmark products included the Trinitron color television, the Walkma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audiokinetic
Audiokinetic Inc. is a Canadian software company based in Quebec City, Quebec that develops audio software for the video game industry. Its main product is Wwise audio authoring software. On January 8, 2019, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that they had acquired the company. History Audiokinetic was founded in 2000 by Martin H. Klein, a veteran of the music, film, and gaming industries. In 2003, Audiokinetic was granted funding by the Alliance numériQC, the Quebec digital industry network. In 2006, Microsoft Game Studios (MGS) signed a long-term licensing agreement with Audiokinetic. The first game to use Audiokinetic's software was FASA Interactive's Shadowrun. In January 2007, Audiokinetic entered into an educational partnership with the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences. The Conservatory will teach Audiokinetic's Wwise software platform in its Audio for Games curriculum and will further develop an authorized Manufacturer Certification for the product. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media Molecule
Media Molecule Ltd. is a British video game developer based in Guildford, Surrey. Founded in 2006 by Mark Healey, Alex Evans, David Smith, and Kareem Ettouney, Sony Computer Entertainment acquired the firm in 2010. It became part of SCE Worldwide Studios (now PlayStation Studios). The company is best known for developing the '' LittleBigPlanet'' series, 2013's '' Tearaway'', and 2020's '' Dreams'' for PlayStation consoles. Before the company's formation, the co-founders, led by Healey, developed '' Rag Doll Kung Fu'', whilst working at Lionhead Studios. They left Lionhead in 2005 and presented an early precursor of '' LittleBigPlanet'' to Sony. Sony was interested, so in January 2006 they secured their funding from Sony for six months and Media Molecule was incorporated. The studio signed a deal with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe in June. This allowed Media Molecule to create ''LittleBigPlanet'' for the PlayStation 3, with Sony owning the intellectual property. So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insomniac Games
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 (character), Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet and Clank (characters), Ratchet and Clank, as well as the ''Resistance (video game series), Resistance'' franchise, 2014's ''Sunset Overdrive'' and the ''Marvel's Spider-Man (Insomniac Games series), 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 (video game), Disruptor'', for PlayStation (console), 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Housemarque
Housemarque Oy (or Housemarque Inc.) is a Finnish video game developer based in Helsinki. The company was founded by Ilari Kuittinen and Harri Tikkanen in July 1995, through the merger of their previous video game companies, Bloodhouse and Terramarque, both of which were founded in 1993 as Finland's first commercial developers. Housemarque is the oldest active developer in Finland and has about 110 employees as of 2023. It was acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment in June 2021, becoming a part of PlayStation Studios. History Bloodhouse and Terramarque (1993–1994) Bloodhouse and Terramarque were founded in 1993, becoming Finland's first commercial video game developers. Bloodhouse was led by Harri Tikkanen, and released their first game, '' Stardust'' in 1993, with a version updated for the Amiga 1200, titled '' Super Stardust'', released the following year. Terramarque was founded by Ilari Kuittinen and Stavros Fasoulas, and hired Miha Rinne in 1994. Fasoulas, at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guerrilla Games
Guerrilla B.V. (trade name: Guerrilla Games) is a Dutch First-party developer, first-party video game developer based in Amsterdam and part of PlayStation Studios. The company was founded as Lost Boys Games in January 2000 through the merger of three smaller development studios as a subsidiary of multimedia Conglomerate (company), conglomerate company Lost Boys (company), Lost Boys. Lost Boys Games became independent the following year and was acquired by Media Republic in 2003, renaming the studio to Guerrilla Games before being purchased by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2005. As of 2025, the company employs 385 people under the leadership of joint studio directors Jan-Bart van Beek, Joel Eschler and Hella Schmidt. It is best known for the ''Killzone'' and ''Horizon (video game series), Horizon'' game series. History Guerrilla is the result of a merger between three Dutch video game studios: Orange Games, Digital Infinity, and Formula Game Development. Orange Games was found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firesprite
Firesprite is a British video game developer based in Liverpool. It was established in 2012 by former members of Studio Liverpool. In September 2021, Sony Interactive Entertainment, who had been the parent of Studio Liverpool, acquired the company, making them a first-party developer for PlayStation Studios. History Firesprite was founded in 2012 by Graeme Ankers as managing director, Lee Carus as art director, Chris Roberts as technical director, Stuart Tilley as game director, and Stuart Lovegrove as programming director. The studio is staffed by some developers that were part of Psygnosis and the five people in the studio's core leadership team have worked on games for every PlayStation console. Psygnosis was mostly known for the ''Wipeout'' series. In 2013, the team worked on the visuals of one of the launch titles for the PlayStation 4, an augmented reality tech demo, '' The Playroom''. '' Run Sackboy! Run!'' followed on mobile devices in 2014 and received mixed reviews. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Blundell
Jason Blundell is a British video game producer and creative director. He is best known for his work on the ''Call of Duty'' Zombies franchise. Career Blundell began his career at Activision as a Programmer and Producer for several titles, before joining Treyarch to work on the production of ''Call of Duty 3''. He went on to become Executive Producer for '' Call of Duty: Black Ops'', Campaign Design Director for '' Call of Duty: Black Ops II'', and Game Director for both the Campaign and Zombies modes of '' Call of Duty: Black Ops III'', taking over from Jimmy Zielinski. Blundell directed and produced the Career and Zombies experiences of '' Call of Duty: Black Ops 4'', and co-created the story for the Zombies Comics. He was the creator of the Chaos storyline in the Zombies franchise. On February 28, 2020, Treyarch announced Jason Blundell was leaving the studio. On June 10, 2021, Blundell and Dave Anthony announced a new studio, Deviation Games. On September 8, 2022, it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluepoint Games
Bluepoint Games Inc. is an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2006 by Andy O'Neil and Marco Thrush, the studio is known for video game remasters and remakes, such as '' Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection'' (2015), '' Shadow of the Colossus'' (2018), and '' Demon's Souls'' (2020). Sony Interactive Entertainment acquired the company in September 2021, making them a first-party developer for PlayStation Studios. History Bluepoint Games was founded in 2006 by Andy O'Neil and Marco Thrush, two former Retro Studios employees who had worked on '' Metroid Prime''. The studio's first game, '' Blast Factor'', was released later that year. In August 2009, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that remastered versions of '' God of War'' and '' God of War II'' would be coming to the PlayStation 3 as '' God of War Collection''. The ports were handled by Bluepoint and released on November 17, 2009, in North America. The studio's remasters of '' Ico'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlayStation Studios
PlayStation Studios (formerly SCE Worldwide Studios and SIE Worldwide Studios) is a division of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) that oversees the video game development at the studios owned by SIE. The division was established as SCE Worldwide Studios in September 2005 and rebranded as PlayStation Studios in 2020 to include the PlayStation brand. History On September 14, 2005, Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE, now known as Sony Interactive Entertainment), the video game arm of Sony, announced the formation of SCE Worldwide Studios earlier that month, combining all studios SCE owned at the time. Phil Harrison was appointed as the division's president; he resigned in February 2008. Kazuo Hirai became acting president, succeeded by Shuhei Yoshida in May 2008. When Yoshida moved to lead the indie game development of SIE, Hermen Hulst, previously of SIE's Guerrilla Games studio, became the president of SIE Worldwide Studios in November 2019. The studios productions are g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlayStation Productions
PlayStation Productions, LLC is an American production company owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE). The company adapts SIE's video game franchises into films and television shows with the distribution mainly being handled by Sony's film and television divisions. Its adaptations so far include the films ''Uncharted'' (2022), '' Gran Turismo'' (2023) and '' Until Dawn'' (2025) and television series ''The Last of Us'' (2023–present) and ''Twisted Metal'' (2023–present). History Sony Interactive Entertainment launched PlayStation Productions in 2019 with a focus on adapting the company's video game franchises into films and television shows. An emphasis was placed on coordination between the film and television departments at Sony Pictures with the video game development studios at SIE Worldwide Studios. In December 2020, Tony Vinciquerra, Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures, revealed that Sony was working on three movies and seven TV shows based on PlayStation video ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaikai
was an American company which provides technology for the streaming of high-end video games. Its technology has multiple applications, including in-home streaming over a local wired or wireless network (as in Remote Play between the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita), as well as cloud-based gaming where video games are rendered on remote servers and delivered to end users via internet streaming (such as the PlayStation Now game streaming service.) Founded and registered in Netherlands in 2008 as "Gaikai B.V.", it was acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2012. As a startup, before its acquisition by Sony, the company announced many partners using the technology from 2010 through 2012 including game publishers, web portals, retailers and consumer electronics manufacturers. On July 2, 2012, Sony announced that a formal agreement had been reached to acquire the company for US$380 million with plans of establishing their own new cloud-based gaming service, as well as integ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
