Team Soho

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Team Soho
Formerly
  • SCEE Internal Development Team
  • SCEE Studio Soho
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryVideo games
Founded1994; 30 years ago (1994)
Defunct2002; 22 years ago (2002)
FateDissolved
SuccessorLondon Studio
Headquarters
Soho, London
,
United Kingdom
Products
OwnerSony
ParentSony Computer Entertainment

Team Soho (formerly credited as SCEE Internal Development Team[1][2] or also known as SCEE Studio Soho) was a British first-party video game developer and a studio of Sony Computer Entertainment based in Soho, London.

The company was founded in 1994. The original development staff had little to no experience in the video game industry, with most of them being recent college graduates.[3] They started out with developing NBA ShootOut, the first entry of the NBA ShootOut series, which released in 1996. In 2002, the studio was closed and merged with SCEE Studio Camden (former Psygnosis Camden Studio)[4] to form London Studio.[5] The Team Soho brand was retained for The Getaway: Black Monday.

The Getaway creative director, Brendan McNamara, founded Team Bondi in mid-2003 in Sydney, and had hired several former staff members of Team Soho.[6][7] After Bondi's closure, he founded Videogames Deluxe.

List of software developed[edit]

Year Game Platform(s)
1996 NBA ShootOut[3] PlayStation
1997 NBA ShootOut '97
Porsche Challenge
Rapid Racer
1998 Spice World
1999 This is Football
2000 This is Football 2
2001 This is Football 2002 PlayStation 2
2002 The Getaway

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Porsche Challenge Screenshots: Title screen". MobyGames. New York City: Atari. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Turbo Prop Racing Screenshots: The game's booting screen". MobyGames. New York City: Atari. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  3. ^ a b "NG Alphas: Sony Computer Entertainment U.K." Next Generation. Vol. 2, no. 23. Brisbane, California: Imagine Publishing. November 1996. p. 135-138. Retrieved 7 October 2019 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ "SCEE Camden Studio". MobyGames. New York City: Atari. Archived from the original on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  5. ^ Devi, Vimla (19 October 2020). "Which studios does Sony own?". Game Developer. London: Informa. Archived from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2022 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ Jenkins, David (21 January 2004). Written at San Francisco. "New Australian Studio Formed". Game Developer. London: Informa. Archived from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  7. ^ Bramwell, Tom (25 September 2006). "Team Bondi's PS3 title named". Eurogamer. Brighton: Gamer Network. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 28 May 2020.

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