Ninja Theory Ltd.
Overview
Just Add Monsters Ltd. was founded in March 2000 in Cambridge, the hi-tech heart of the UK. After over 18 years combined experience in the games industry covering 15 published titles on 8 gaming platforms, the three founding members,
Mike Ball,
Nina Kristensen and
Tameem Antoniades, resigned from
Sony Computer Entertainment to realise their vision of the future of games, technology and development. At Sony, they were instrumental in all aspects of game development covering technology, design, art, production and management. Titles that they have been involved with include
MediEvil II,
MediEvil and
Frogger, the latter two having sold over 1000,000 and 5,000,000 units respectively.
Just Add Monsters Ltd was acquired by
Argonaut Games PLC in October 2000 with
Jez San OBE joining the board. They released their first game,
Kung Fu Chaos in 2003, as a 1st-party Xbox exclusive.
In 2004, Argonaut got into financial trouble. The Just Add Monsters division was saved after a management buy-out, and reformed as Ninja Theory Ltd. Their future was consolidated by signing the title
Heavenly Sword at
SCEE as a PS3-exclusive.
Also Known As
- Just Add Monsters Ltd. (from Mar, 2000 to Nov, 2004)
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