Asobo Studio
![]() | |
Type | Private |
---|---|
Industry | Video games |
Founded | 17 October 2002 |
Founders | Sébastien Wloch David Dedeine Ralph Musti Martial Bossard Nicolas Coquard Cédric Rousseau Frédéric Seiss Franck Manon Alain Guyet Nicolas Becavin Patrice Bourroncle Andreas Nick |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Sébastien Wloch David Dedeine |
Products | A Plague Tale: Innocence Microsoft Flight Simulator |
Revenue | ![]() |
Number of employees | 220[1] (2021) |
Website | www |
Asobo Studio SAS is a French video game developer based in Bordeaux and founded in 2002. The studio is most known for developing video game adaptations of several Pixar movies, A Plague Tale: Innocence, and the 2020 version of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
History[]
In 2002, twelve video game developers decided to work together. They bought the rights to the multiplayer PlayStation 2 game Super Farm and founded Asobo Studio. Their first game was published in 2003 by Ignition Entertainment. During the following years, the studio developed several games for various platforms, until being chosen by publisher THQ to create the video game adaptation of Pixar film Ratatouille. Asobo started increasing its growth speed, recruiting about 20% new employees a year, leading to two separate production lines. Asobo was selected to develop the video game adaptation of Pixar's following films WALL-E and Up.
During the 2008 Games Convention, the video game publisher Codemasters announced Fuel, a racing game developed by Asobo Studio. Fuel was released in 2009 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and the PC. The studio worked on Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure for Xbox 360 Kinect between 2010 and 2012. The game features a scanning process, enabling the player to create their own Pixar avatar, looking like them. It features characters from Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Cars, Up and Toy Story. The game was published by Microsoft and Disney Interactive Studios in March 2012.
In 2014, Asobo Studio partnered with Ubisoft to release Monopoly Family Fun pack on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, including Monopoly Plus, My Monopoly and Monopoly Deal, as well as The Crew for Xbox 360. In 2016, Asobo Studio partnered with Microsoft again to release two games on HoloLens: Fragments and Young Conker. Both games are available in the Developer Edition, released on March 30, 2016. Asobo Studio was the first independent developer in Holographic Entertainment and won the 2016 French Video Game Creator Prize awarded by Syntec Numérique EY and SNJV.[citation needed] In 2017, the studio announced A Plague Tale: Innocence, an adventure game, released for PC and consoles in 2019 and published by Focus Home Interactive. They also worked with Engine Software to develop Monopoly for Nintendo Switch, which came out later that year. Their latest release was Microsoft Flight Simulator, published on August 18, 2020 for Microsoft Windows.[2]
Games developed[]
Year | Game | Publisher | Platform(s) | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PS2 | Xbox | Win | Mac | NGC | PSP | Wii | X360 | PS3 | PS4 | XOne | NSW | PS5 | XSX | |||
2003 | Super Farm | Ignition Entertainment | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
2004 | Sitting Ducks | LSP | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
The Mummy: The Animated Series | HIP Interactive | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
2005 | Nemesis Strike | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
2006 | Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties | Game Factory | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
2007 | Ratatouille | THQ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
2008 | WALL-E | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
2009 | Fuel | Codemasters | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Up | THQ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
2010 | Racket Sports Party | Ubisoft | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Toy Story 3 | Disney Interactive Studios | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Racket Sports | Ubisoft | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
2012 | Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure | Microsoft Studios | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
2014 | The Crew | Ubisoft | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Monopoly Plus | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ||
2016 | Fragments – HoloLens | Microsoft Studios | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Young Conker – HoloLens | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
ReCore | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ||
2017 | Disneyland Adventures | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ||
2018 | The Crew 2 | Ubisoft | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
2019 | A Plague Tale: Innocence | Focus Home Interactive | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
2020 | Microsoft Flight Simulator[3] | Xbox Game Studios | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
2022 | A Plague Tale: Requiem | Focus Home Interactive | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
References[]
- ^ https://www.afjv.com/news/10469_asobo-studio-realise-une-levee-de-fonds-pour-accompagner-sa-croissance.htm
- ^ "Microsoft Flight Simulator Set for Launch on August 18 for PC, also with Xbox Game Pass for PC (Beta)". Microsoft Flight Simulator. 2020-06-13. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
- ^ https://www.asobostudio.com/news/microsoft-flight-simulator
External links[]
- French companies established in 2002
- Companies based in Bordeaux
- Video game companies established in 2002
- Video game companies of France
- Video game development companies
- Privately held companies of France