Milestone Srl

Milestone srl
Formerly	Graffiti (1994–1996)
Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video games
Founded	1994; 30 years ago
Founder	Antonio Farina
Headquarters	Milan, Italy
Key people	Luisa Bixio (CEO)
Number of employees	≈200 (2019)
Parent	Leader Group (2002–2011); Deep Silver (2019–present);
Website	milestone.it

Short description: Italian video game developer

Milestone srl is an Italian video game developer based in Milan that focuses on racing games. It was founded by Antonio Farina in 1994, originally under the name Graffiti, before becoming Milestone in 1996. Milestone was part of Leader Group between 2002 and 2011, and in August 2019, the studio was acquired by Koch Media.

History

Milestone was founded under the name Graffiti in 1994 by Antonio Farina.^[1]^[2] Under the continued leadership of Farina, Graffiti was re-founded as Milestone in 1996.^[3]^[4] In late 2002, Milestone became part of the Leader Group, a multi-facet video game company.^[1]^[3] Through this transition, Milestone became exclusively affiliated with Leader Group's internal publisher Lago.^[3] However, the studio later started co-operating with third-party publishers again as it considered such a move to be in the best interest of all involved parties.^[3] Their position as subsidiary also allowed them to grow and develop multiple games for multiple platform simultaneously; by October 2007, the studio had 55 employees.^[3] By January 2010, Milestone had 80 employees, making it the largest video game developer in Italy.^[5]

In 2011, Milestone was restructured as an independent company, aiming for further growth while remaining self-reliant.^[6] Following low earnings of €2.6 million in 2012, Milestone ceased developing games on a work-for-hire basis and began publishing its games by itself.^[4]^[6] As a result of this strategy, the company's profits rose to €28 million by 2017.^[6] On August 14, 2019, media company Koch Media entered into an agreement to fully acquire Milestone and all of its intellectual property for €44.9 million paid in cash.^[2]^[4] The acquisition was completed later that day.^[7] Prior to this point, Milestone had been wholly owned by its chief executive officer, Luisa Bixio, who continued heading the company following the acquisition.^[4] It became a studio for Koch Media's Deep Silver label.^[8] At the time, Milestone employed 200 people.^[2]

Games developed

As Graffiti

Year	Title	Platform(s)
1994	Super Loopz	Super Nintendo Entertainment System
1995	Iron Assault	MS-DOS
1995	Screamer	MS-DOS

As Milestone


Year	Title	Platform(s)
1996	Screamer 2	MS-DOS
1997	Screamer Rally	MS-DOS, Windows
1999	Superbike World Championship	Windows
2000	Superbike 2000	Windows, PlayStation
2000	Superbike 2001	Windows
2003	Racing Evoluzione	Xbox
2003	L'eredità	Windows, PlayStation 2
2005	Alfa Romeo Racing Italiano	Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox
2005	The X Factor Sing	Windows, PlayStation 2
2006	Australian Idol Sing	PlayStation 2
	Corvette Evolution GT	Windows, PlayStation 2
	Super-bikes Riding Challenge	Windows, PlayStation 2
	Suzuki Super-Bikes II: Riding Challenge	Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2
2007	MotoGP 07	PlayStation 2
	SBK-07	PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable
	Super PickUps	PlayStation 2
2008	MotoGP 08	Windows, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360
2008	SBK: Superbike World Championship
2009	SBK 09: Superbike World Championship
2009	Superstars V8 Racing	Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
2010	SBK X: Superbike World Championship
	Superstars V8: Next Challenge
	WRC FIA World Rally Championship
2011	SBK 2011: FIM Superbike World Championship
2011	WRC 2
2012	MUD: FIM Motocross World Championship	Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360
	SBK Generations	Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
	WRC 3	Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360
2013	MotoGP 13
	WRC 4
	WRC Powerslide	Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
	WRC Shakedown Edition	iOS
2014	MotoGP 14	Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360
2014	MXGP: The Official Motocross Videogame
2015	Karate Master 2: Knock Down Blow	Windows
	MotoGP 15	Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
	Ride	Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
2016	Ducati	Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
	MXGP2: The Official Motocross Videogame
	Sébastien Loeb Rally EVO
	Valentino Rossi
2017	MotoGP 17
	MXGP3: The Official Motocross Videogame	Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
	Ride 2	Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
2018	Gravel	Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
	Monster Energy Supercross	Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
	MotoGP 18	Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
	MXGP: Pro	Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
	Ghostly Matter	Windows
	Ride 3	Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
2019	Monster Energy Supercross 2: The Official Videogame	Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
	MotoGP 19	Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
	MXGP 2019	Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
2020	Monster Energy Supercross 3: The Official Videogame	Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Xbox One
	MotoGP 20
	Ride 4
	Monster Energy Supercross 4: The Official Videogame

Cancelled titles

Title	Platform(s)
FX Racing	GameCube, Windows, PlayStation 2
Lamborghini FX	Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox
SBK-07	Windows, Xbox 360
SBK-08	Nintendo DS, Wii

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Timeline". http://milestone.it/company/timeline/?lang=en.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Blake, Vikki (14 August 2019). "Koch Media to acquire Milestone and all IPs, including MotoGP and Supercross". https://www.mcvuk.com/koch-media-to-acquire-milan-studio-milestone-and-all-ips-including-motogp-and-supercross/.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 MCV Staff (9 October 2007). "Milestone". https://www.mcvuk.com/milestone-2/.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 Romano, Sal (14 August 2019). "THQ Nordic acquires Milestone S.r.l". https://gematsu.com/2019/08/thq-nordic-acquires-milestone-srl.
↑ "Intervista a Luisa Bixio – Amministratore Delegato Leader" (in it). 11 January 2010. http://www.aesvi.it/cms/view.php?dir_pk=1204&cms_pk=1112.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 Handrahan, Matthew (26 October 2017). "Milestone races towards its biggest ever year". https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-10-26-milestone-races-towards-its-biggest-ever-year.
↑ Wingefors, Lars (14 August 2019). "THQ Nordic completes the acquisition of Milestone". https://news.cision.com/thq-nordic-ab/r/thq-nordic-completes-the-acquisition-of-milestone,c2880843.
↑ Wingefors, Lars (27 August 2019). "THQ Nordic Annual Report 2018/19". https://mb.cision.com/Main/15049/2890795/1096896.pdf.

External links

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[Milestone_timeline-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "Timeline". http://milestone.it/company/timeline/?lang=en.

[MCV_acquisition-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Blake, Vikki (14 August 2019). "Koch Media to acquire Milestone and all IPs, including MotoGP and Supercross". https://www.mcvuk.com/koch-media-to-acquire-milan-studio-milestone-and-all-ips-including-motogp-and-supercross/.

[MCV_feature-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 MCV Staff (9 October 2007). "Milestone". https://www.mcvuk.com/milestone-2/.

[Gematsu_acquisition-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 Romano, Sal (14 August 2019). "THQ Nordic acquires Milestone S.r.l". https://gematsu.com/2019/08/thq-nordic-acquires-milestone-srl.

[5] "Intervista a Luisa Bixio – Amministratore Delegato Leader" (in it). 11 January 2010. http://www.aesvi.it/cms/view.php?dir_pk=1204&cms_pk=1112.

[GIbiz_feature-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 Handrahan, Matthew (26 October 2017). "Milestone races towards its biggest ever year". https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-10-26-milestone-races-towards-its-biggest-ever-year.

[7] Wingefors, Lars (14 August 2019). "THQ Nordic completes the acquisition of Milestone". https://news.cision.com/thq-nordic-ab/r/thq-nordic-completes-the-acquisition-of-milestone,c2880843.

[AR2018-8] Wingefors, Lars (27 August 2019). "THQ Nordic Annual Report 2018/19". https://mb.cision.com/Main/15049/2890795/1096896.pdf.