Beautiful Game Studios

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British video game developer

Beautiful Game Studios

Type| Division
Industry| Video games
Founded| 2003; 20 years ago (2003)
Headquarters|

London

England

Key people

| Roy Meredith (general manager)
Products| Championship Manager series
Parent| Square Enix Europe

Beautiful Game Studios was a British video game developer based inside Eidos Interactive's headquarters. The internal studio was set up in 2003 to take over the development of the Championship Manager after its former developer Sports Interactive ceased its involvement. Beautiful Game Studios was majorly restructured in November 2009, losing 80% of its staff.

## History[edit]

Beautiful Game Studios was founded in 2003,[1] and announced in January 2004 as an internal development team of Eidos Interactive (later renamed Square Enix Europe) that would focus on the development of Championship Manager, after the original developer of the series, Sports Interactive, departed from Eidos Interactive in 2003.[2]

In November 2009, after Eidos Interactive had been acquired by Square Enix and renamed Square Enix Europe, Square Enix announced that Beautiful Game Studios would undergo restructuring to "build a successful commercial future" for the Championship Manager brand.[3] Around 80% of jobs, including the majority of the internal studio's programming department, were either cut or relocated to Eidos Shanghai, while incumbent general manager Roy Meredith retained his position.[3][4] Despite the significant cuts, remained operational as a developer.[4]

In September 2010, Beautiful Game Studios announced that they had entered into a strategic partnership with Chinese publisher Shanda Games, which granted Shanda Games the Chinese distribution rights of future Championship Manager games.[5] The partnership grew largely from the then-enlarged Eidos Shanghai's previous work with Shanda Games, as well as long-term communications between Beautiful Game Studios, Eidos Shanghai, and Shanda Games.[6] The games resulting from this partnership, Championship Manager: World of Football, was announced in July 2011.[7]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Staff (26 November 2009). "Square Enix Restructures Beautiful Game Studios, Cuts Positions". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
2. ^ Jenkins, David (30 January 2004). "Eidos Creates Internal Dev Team". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
3. ^ a b Elliott, Phil (25 November 2009). "Beautiful Game Studios to be restructured". GamesIndustry.biz. Archived from the original on 22 August 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
4. ^ a b MCV Staff (19 April 2010). "Square Enix comes clean on cuts and closure". MCV.
5. ^ Pearson, Dan (7 September 2010). "Championship Manager expands to China". GamesIndustry.biz. Archived from the original on 18 May 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
6. ^ Orry, James (7 September 2010). "The changing face of Beautiful Game Studios". VideoGamer.com. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
7. ^ Olivetti, Justin (19 July 2011). "Square Enix invites Championship Manager into the MMO club". Engadget. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2019.

## External links[edit]

* Archive of championshipmanager.co.uk

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