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Clim a x
Studios
The work-for-hire studio
thats reinventing itself at the
forefront of VR production
By Ben Maxwell
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Founded 1988
Employees 100 (UK); 20 (New Zealand)
Key staff Karl Jeffrey (chairman), Simon
Gardner (CEO), Rhys Cadle (design director),
James Sharman (CTO) Gary Welch (art director)
URL www.climaxstudios.com
Selected softography Assassins Creed
Chronicles, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories,
Silent Hill: Origins, Bandit Six, Bandit Six: Salvo
Current projects Gunsight for Gear VR,
Balloon Chair Death Match for Vive, plus
Google Daydream and Tango projects
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studio profile
Climax is expanding as it moves to maintain its place at the head of the emerging VR market.
Thanks to sizeable investment in the sector, the studio has lined up a wide range of VR and
AR projects, and CEO Simon Gardner expects the audience for such titles to grow rapidly
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