founded december 2008 headquarters dundee scotland uk 1 key people gaz liddon studio head billy thomson creative director products video games website http www.ruffiangames.com ruffian games is a british video game developer founded in 2008 . 2 the developer was formed by two members billy thomson and gaz liddon of the video game developer realtime worlds . ruffian games originally consisted of members from realtime worlds and xen studios among others . 2 they have made crackdown 2 the sequel to the 2007 video game crackdown . contents 1 history 2 games 3 collaborative games 4 references history edit ruffian games was officially formed in december 2008 . the studio was founded by billy thomson now creative director and gaz liddon now studio head . 3 the team consisted of developers who have worked on games like crackdown fable ii and project gotham racing . 1 before the official announcement however rumors circulated that a studio was in development of the sequel to the realtime worlds game crackdown . as early as december 2008 rumors emerged that ruffian games was formed to create a sequel to crackdown . 4 in light of these rumors realtime worlds issued a statement claiming that they continue to have ongoing discussions with microsoft about a crackdown sequel although no offer has been made . the rumors however ousted ruffian games as a microsoft funded developer . 5 after the announcement not much news circulated regarding the project the developer was currently working on . the developer was keeping its current project under wraps now we re in full production we re itching to share the fantastic work these guys have been producing stated liddon . 6 on 22 may 2009 it was announced that the developer had added 15 new members to its team . 7 at microsoft s 2009 e3 conference ruffian games announced their project to be crackdown 2 which was released 6 july 2010 in north america . 8 ruffian games is made up of a large amount of former realtime worlds employees who moved to this studio after the failure of apb all points bulletin the main cause of realtime worlds collapse . the developer was reported to be working on a reboot of the streets of rage series for sega as a digital download title . however former employee sean noonan while confirming the rumor about the game stated it was a prototype developed in eight weeks by a small group of employees of the developer . 9 on 19 february 2013 ruffian games revealed their new self published project tribal towers . they also confirmed they weren t currently working on a sequel to the crackdown franchise . 10 on 27 january 2014 ruffian games announced that tribal towers had evolved into a new project entitled game of glens . 11 it was announced alongside square enix s new venture collective in which it was one of the 3 launch titles that users could vote on to gather interest in the game . 12 on 12 august 2014 ruffian games revealed hollowpoint for playstation 4 and pc during sony s gamescom press conference . the game is published by paradox interactive . 13 games edit year title publisher platform 2010 crackdown 2 microsoft studios xbox 360 2012 kinect playfit microsoft studios xbox 360 tba fragmental ruffian games microsoft windows collaborative games edit title lead developer publisher year platform kinect star wars terminal reality microsoft studios 2012 xbox 360 nike kinect training sumo digital microsoft studios 2012 xbox 360 kinect sesame street tv soho productions microsoft studios 2013 xbox 360 kinect sports rivals rare ltd. microsoft studios 2014 xbox one halo the master chief collection 343 industries microsoft studios 2014 xbox one references edit a b luke plunkett 2009 01 20 . say hello to ruffian games . kotaku.com . retrieved 2011 09 07 . a b ruffian games formed . news.bigdownload.com . 2009 01 20 . retrieved 2012 07 27 . rob crossley 2009 01 20 . ruffian games officially announced edge magazine . next gen.biz . retrieved 2011 09 07 . wong steven . joystiq . gamedaily.com . retrieved 2011 09 07 . pereira chris 2008 12 19 . crackdown 2 reportedly in development at newly formed studio news from . 1up . com . retrieved 2011 09 07 . mcelroy griffin 2009 05 22 . ruffian games expands team by 15 itching to reveal first project . joystiq . retrieved 2011 09 07 . ruffian games expands by 15 still won t say what they re working on . digitalbattle.com . 2009 05 22 . retrieved 2011 09 07 . e3 2009 crackdown 2 announced ; 2010 release date . perezstart . 2010 03 15 . retrieved 2011 09 07 . http www.joystiq.com 2012 12 05 footage of ruffians streets of rage leaks out http www.tribaltowers.com 2013 02 19 ruffians new thing http www.ruffiangames.com 2014 01 27 introducing game of glens http www.vg247.com 2014 02 04 scottish devs ruffian games add game of glens to square enix collective http blog.eu.playstation.com 2014 08 12 hollowpoint ruffian games will make console debut ps4 v t e crackdown series games crackdown 2 3 related realtime worlds ruffian games cloudgine sumo digital microsoft studios david jones retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ruffian games & oldid 708011157 categories companies established in 2009video game companies of the united kingdomvideo game development companiescompanies based in dundeehidden categories use dmy dates from june 2014use british english from june 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 march 2016 at 02 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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