High Moon Studios, Inc.
Moby ID: 2471
- Sammy Studios, Inc. (from 2002 to 2005-03-06)
- Sammy Entertainment Inc. (from 2001-04 to 2002)
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High Moon Studios is a game development studio based in Carlsbad, San Diego, California (USA). It is owned by Activision Blizzard as a wholly owned subsidiary. The company was established in Century City, California as Sammy Entertainment, Inc. in April 2001 as a subsidiary of Sammy USA Corporation. In 2002 the name was changed to Sammy Studio, Inc. and the company moved to San Diego. In this period the company name was also used as the publisher for many localized Japanese titles.
The company became independent in March 2005 when Chief Operating Officer John Rowe bought the company from Sammy Corporation. The name was then changed to High Moon Studios. The studio debuted in 2005 with the first-person shooter Darkwatch. In January 2006 the company lost its independent status again when it was acquired by Vivendi Universal Games. In December 2007 a merger between Vivendi and Activision was announced and that way it became an Activision subsidiary. Following the merger about 60 of the 150 developers were laid off.
The company has solely focused on action games. Following Darkwatch (2005), the studio only created titles based on existing licenses: Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy (2008), two Transformers games: Transformers: War for Cybertron (2010) and Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, and most recently Deadpool (2013). Prior to the release of Deadpool, 40 developers were let go in April 2013.
Credited on 35 Games from 2001 to 2023
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| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023 on Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series...) |
| Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 (2022 on Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series...) |
| Call of Duty: MWII - Modern Warfare II (2022 on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One...) |
| Call of Duty: Vanguard (2021 on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One...) |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War (2020 on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One...) |
| Call of Duty: Warzone (2020 on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One) |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019 on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One) |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII (2018 on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One) |
| Call of Duty: WWII (2017 on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One) |
| Destiny 2 (2017 on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One) |
| Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (2016 on Windows, Windows Apps, PlayStation 4...) |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - Remastered (2016 on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One...) |
| Deadpool (2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One) |
| King's Quest: Chapter I - A Knight to Remember (2015 on Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3...) |
| Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014 on Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3...) |
| Transformers: Fall of Cybertron - Gold Edition (2014 on Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4) |
| Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013 on Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3...) |
| Deadpool (2013 on Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) |
| Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (2012 on Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) |
| Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) |
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History +
- January 5, 2006
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Company acquired by Vivendi Universal Games.
- March 7, 2005
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Chief Operating Officer John Rowe (from Sammy Studios) buys the company from Sammy Corporation along with the licenses for the games under development. The studios' new name becomes High Moon Studios.
- 2002
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Sammy Entertainment, Inc., changes its name to Sammy Studio, Inc., and moves to San Diego, California, USA.
- April 2001
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Sammy Entertainment Inc. subsidiary established, based in Century City, California
Trivia +
The company website was previously http://www.sammystudios.com/
Related Web Sites +
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High Moon Studios, Inc.
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Q&A: High Moon's John Rowe
Interview with John Rowe about High Moon & the Sammy Studios purchase on Gamespot (25 March 2005)
Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 22 games with Activision Publishing, Inc.
- 17 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 13 games with Raven Software Corporation
- 13 games with DemonWare Ltd.
- 12 games with Valve Corporation
- 11 games with Infinity Ward, Inc.
- 10 games with Sledgehammer Games, Inc.
- 10 games with Beenox Inc.
- 10 games with Havok
- 9 games with Treyarch Corporation
- 20 games with Peter Della Penna
- 18 games with Barry Kehoe
- 18 games with Fergus Lindsay
- 18 games with Dan Mulkiewicz
- 18 games with Fiona Ebbs
- 17 games with Kai Hsu
- 17 games with Noah Sarid
- 17 games with Chuck Yager
- 16 games with Matt Tieger
- 16 games with Stephane Etienne
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- All games by High Moon Studios, Inc.
- Published by High Moon Studios, Inc.
- Developed by High Moon Studios, Inc.
- Additional Development by High Moon Studios, Inc.
- Ported by High Moon Studios, Inc.
- Additional Graphics by High Moon Studios, Inc.
- Motion Capture by High Moon Studios, Inc.
- Contributions by High Moon Studios, Inc.
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