subsidiary of sony interactive entertainment industry computer and video games interactive entertainment founded 1997 founder brian fleming headquarters bellevue washington united states products sly cooper series 2002 2005 infamous series 2009 services video game development owner sony number of employees 90 parent sie worldwide studios website official website sucker punch productions is an american video game developer founded in 1997 and based in bellevue washington . it was an independent company until august 2011 but has worked exclusively with sony interactive entertainment since 2000 . sony acquired sucker punch on august 2 2011 . 1 contents 1 history 2 games developed 3 references 4 external links history edit in late 1999 sucker punch released its first game rocket robot on wheels for the nintendo 64 . after signing a deal with sony in 2000 the company went on to create the sly cooper series for the playstation 2 using their proprietary engine spackle sucker punch animation and character kinematics life engine . the company s most recent series infamous for the playstation 3 and playstation 4 heralded a move from level based games portraying cel shaded anthropomorphic animals to a fully streaming sandbox game depicting more realistic looking humans and protagonists with acrobatic abilities . the company was founded in 1997 and according to the company s website it started at the roots of microsoft where the co founders all worked in a variety of productivity and software development applications . all shared a love for video games yet only one had game development experience . the group decided to leave microsoft in 1997 . the company name came as one of several proposed by the company that they would not have been able to use at microsoft due to that company s policies . co founder chris zimmerman showed the list to his wife for her opinion and she responded that she did not care as long as it isn t sucker punch . considering the opinion of a middle aged woman would be completely contrary to the demographics of their target audience they selected that name for the company . 2 sucker punch is considered one of sony s platformer trio which includes naughty dog and insomniac games . although the three companies have started to venture into more mature outings they have recently started to continue their series such as naughty dog handing over production of their latest jak and daxter title to high impact games and insomniac games continuing their ratchet and clank series . in addition sucker punch has handed over their sly cooper series to sanzaru games and they have produced sly cooper thieves in time . this game was released in february 2013 in north america and march 2013 in europe and australia . sanzaru games also released the sly collection a remastered port of the playstation 2 sly cooper games for the playstation 3 in november 2010 . in addition nihilistic software developed playstation move heroes a cross over ps3 title featuring sly cooper and two other popular characters ratchet and jak . a sequel to infamous was officially announced when the cover of game informer s july 2010 issue was a picture of infamous 2 along with the magazine containing a ten page preview of the game . sucker punch teamed up with capcom to include their infamous protagonist cole macgrath as a special guest character for street fighter x tekken . he is a playable character on the playstation 3 and playstation vita versions and with superbot entertainment to include both the good and evil versions cole macgrath and sly cooper in playstation all stars battle royale . games developed edit year game platform s gamerankings metacritic 1999 rocket robot on wheels nintendo 64 81.32 % 3 n a 2002 sly cooper and the thievius raccoonus playstation 2 85.23 % 4 86 100 5 2004 sly 2 band of thieves 87.92 % 6 88 100 7 2005 sly 3 honor among thieves 84.18 % 8 83 100 9 2009 infamous playstation 3 86.31 % 10 85 100 11 2011 infamous 2 84.44 % 12 83 100 13 infamous festival of blood 79.89 % 14 78 100 15 2014 infamous second son playstation 4 80.57 % 16 80 100 17 infamous first light 74.89 % 18 73 100 19 references edit eaton nick august 2 2011 . sony buys bellevue s sucker punch video game studio share . seattle post intelligencer . retrieved 2011 08 02 . mcelroy justin 2009 09 08 . what s in a name sucker punch . joystiq . retrieved 2009 09 08 . rocket robot on wheels reviews . gamerankings . retrieved july 9 2012 . sly cooper and the thievius raccoonus reviews . gamerankings . retrieved july 9 2012 . sly cooper and the thievius raccoonus reviews . metacritic . retrieved july 9 2012 . sly 2 band of thieves reviews . gamerankings . retrieved july 9 2012 . sly 2 band of thieves reviews . metacritic . retrieved july 9 2012 . sly 3 honor among thieves reviews . gamerankings . retrieved july 9 2012 . sly 3 honor among thieves reviews . metacritic . retrieved july 9 2012 . infamous reviews . gamerankings . retrieved july 9 2012 . infamous reviews . metacritic . retrieved july 9 2012 . infamous 2 reviews . gamerankings . retrieved july 9 2012 . infamous 2 reviews . metacritic . retrieved july 9 2012 . infamous festival of blood reviews . gamerankings . retrieved july 9 2012 . infamous festival of blood reviews . metacritic . retrieved july 9 2012 . infamous second son reviews . gamerankings . retrieved july 9 2012 . infamous second son reviews . metacritic . retrieved july 9 2012 . infamous first light reviews . gamerankings . retrieved july 9 2012 . infamous first light reviews . metacritic . retrieved july 9 2012 . external links edit official website v t e sly cooper main series thievius racoonus 2 band of thieves 3 honor among thieves thieves in time related articles characters sly cooper film sucker punch productions sanzaru games the sly collection playstation move heroes playstation all stars battle royale v t e infamous series main series infamous infamous 2 infamous second son other games infamous festival of blood infamous first light related sucker punch productions comic infamous post blast graphic novel street fighter x tekken playstation all stars battle royale v t e sucker punch productions sly cooper series sly cooper and the thievius raccoonus sly 2 band of thieves sly 3 honor among thieves infamous series infamous infamous 2 festival of blood infamous second son first light other games rocket robot on wheels list v t e sony interactive entertainment worldwide studios franchises ape escape arc the lad atv offroad fury boku no natsuyasumi buzz colony wars cool boarders dancestar party dark cloud destruction derby devil dice echochrome everquest everybody s golf everybody s tennis eyepet eyetoy fantavision fat princess g police genji god of war gran turismo gravity rush hustle kings infamous invizimals jak and daxter jet moto jumping flash killzone legend of legaia lemmings littlebigplanet locoroco medievil mlb the show modnation racers motorstorm motor toon grand prix ore no shikabane wo koete yuke oreshika parappa the rapper patapon planetside pursuit force rally cross ratchet & clank resistance savage moon shadow of the beast singstar siren sly cooper socom sports champions start the party super stardust syphon filter the eye of judgment the getaway this is football twisted metal uncharted vib ribbon warhawk what did i do to deserve this my lord no heroes allowed white knight chronicles wild arms wipeout wonderbook world tour soccer divisions bend studio foster city studio japan studio london studio san diego studio santa monica studio subsidiaries guerrilla games guerrilla cambridge j.s.e.e.d. playstation c.a.m.p. team gravity team ico media molecule naughty dog pixelopus polyphony digital sucker punch productions xdev former subsidiaries 989 studios bigbig studios contrail evolution studios incognito entertainment psygnosis team soho zipper interactive related list of video games published by sony interactive entertainment retrieved from https 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