Millennium Interactive: Difference between revisions

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|defunct =  July 4th, 1997

|products = ''James Pond'', ''Creatures''}}'''Millennium Interactive''' was a Cambridge-based company responsible for titles such as ''Rome: Pathway to Power'', ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'', ''James Pond'', ''Defcon 5'', ''Deadline'' and most notably, ''Creatures''. The original ''[[MediEvil]]'' began development prior to Millennium's acquisition by Sony.

Millennium Interactive was founded by Michael Hayward, Tony Beckwith, Ian Saunter and one other sometime in 1988.{{cite}}

In 1993, Steve Grand began developing a project based on artificial life.{{cite}}

In November 1994, Cyberlife was set up to build products around Steve Grand's concepts of artificial life. By November of 1996, there were 10 people in this department.

On July 4th, 1997, the Millennium development studio, along with several of the projects in development, were sold to Sony Computer Entertainment for £6 million and renamed to [[SCE Cambridge Studio]].<ref name="TheTimes">{{Cite news|title=''Sony spends £6m on research base''|newspaper=The Times|author=Jason Nisse|published=July 14, 1997|retrieved=May 15th, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Icon|Twitter}} {{Cite web|title=Jason Wilson|site=Twitter|url=https://twitter.com/gunncomics/status/815646211344596992|published=January 1st, 2017|retrieved=May 15th, 2021}}</ref> This allowed Sony to acquire ''[[MediEvil]]''.

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