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Climax Announces Ambitious U.S. Expansion Plans

Los Angeles-based, long-time UK developer Climax has announced ambitious plans to expand its new 16,000 sq ft Santa Monica office, suggesting it intends to hire 80 new st...

Simon Carless, Blogger

December 8, 2004

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Los Angeles-based, long-time UK developer Climax has announced ambitious plans to expand its new 16,000 sq ft Santa Monica office, suggesting it intends to hire 80 new staff over the next few months as it aggressively builds its U.S. presence. This move comes after the launch of the company's first U.S.-developed title, the Xbox conversion of Tron 2.0 Killer Application for Buena Vista Games. The company's UK studios have also recently released titles including Xbox RPG Sudeki for Microsoft and PlayStation 2 racing title ATV Offroad Fury 3 for Sony. David Schwartz, President of the LA Studio, commented on this announcement: "We’re particularly excited by the opportunities this move gives us to create the next generation of hit games for Xbox2 and PlayStation 3. We’re working closely with SCEA on a high profile title for 2005, too." Climax also recently announced a new 'Climax Action' combined studio for the UK, as well as disclosing new information on its next-generation development tool set Tomcat.

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Simon Carless

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Simon Carless is the founder of the GameDiscoverCo agency and creator of the popular GameDiscoverCo game discoverability newsletter. He consults with a number of PC/console publishers and developers, and was previously most known for his role helping to shape the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Conference for many years.

He is also an investor and advisor to UK indie game publisher No More Robots (Descenders, Hypnospace Outlaw), a previous publisher and editor-in-chief at both Gamasutra and Game Developer magazine, and sits on the board of the Video Game History Foundation.

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