Cohort Studios

Cohort Studios was a games development and interactive entertainment studio. It was based in Dundee but closed its office there in May 2011.[1] Cohort still continues to trade and is owned by Darran Thomas who took full control of the company in March 2012. The company is currently working on undisclosed projects and is now based out of Cardiff in Wales.

Cohort Studios Ltd
Video Game Developer
IndustryVideo games
FateBankruptcy
FoundedMarch 2006
Defunct2012
HeadquartersCardiff, Wales
Key people
Darran Thomas
OwnerDarran Thomas
Websitehttp://www.cohortstudios.com

Formed in 2006, by Lol Scragg, Darran Thomas and Bruce McNeish, Cohort's first project involved being contracted by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe to assist on MotorStorm for PlayStation 3. This was followed with work on Go! Puzzle for PlayStation Network on both PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. In addition, the company developed a small downloadable driving title which was used on the website of the Audi TT.

Early in 2008, Cohort Studios released Buzz! Junior: Dino Den for the PlayStation 2 followed later in the year with Buzz! Junior: Ace Racers. Also in 2008, they won the contract for re-developing three of the PS2 Buzz! Junior titles to be distributed via the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3. The titles were to feature 5 of the best mini-games as well as including trophy support and the ability to use a DualShock wireless controller instead of Buzzers.

In October 2010, the company released The Shoot on the PlayStation 3 platform, published by SCEE. The title was one of the first titles to use Sony's new PlayStation Move controller based around the concept of being a movie action hero on a movie set.

On 21 April 2011 Cohort announced that the studio was closing due to "a declining console marketplace".[2] Prior to closing Cohort managed to release the two PlayStation minis titles it had been working on namely, Cohort Chess[3] and Me Monstar: Hear me Roar![4]

Games
gollark: CC's does keyboard shortcuts and autocomplete and stuff too.
gollark: Is it the same?
gollark: Seemingly not. Alas.
gollark: I wonder if the one for deaths is still up...
gollark: Excellent. Soon I shall begin my evil plan.

References
  1. "Computer games firm to close down". BBC News. 21 April 2011.
  2. http://www.develop-online.net/news/37540/Cohort-closes-down
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIDBIpXKQoM
  4. "Me monstar|monster|monstar|hear me roar|monsters|ios|PSN|ipad|iphone|cohort|".
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