computer and video games interactive entertainment fate defunct founded 2002 defunct 2010 headquarters birmingham uk key people trevor williams products video games website www.swordfishstudios.com swordfish studios was a british software development company based in birmingham founded by rage executive director trevor williams and joan finnegan wife of paul finnegan former managing director of rage software limited in september 2002 . 1 games developed by the company include two best selling international rugby titles including world championship rugby . others include brian lara international cricket 2005 and cold winter . in 2004 swordfish studios was named developer of the year by the independent games developers association . swordfish studios was acquired by vivendi games in june 2005 becoming a fully owned studio of sierra entertainment then acquired by codemasters on 15 november 2008 after an agreement with activision blizzard . 2 it is now known as codemasters birmingham . the studio closed down in 2010 . many of the former swordfish studios employees have been hired by crytek uk . contents 1 games developed 2 see also 3 references 4 external links games developed edit year game publisher genre platform s ps2 xbox win os x x360 ps3 2004 world championship rugby acclaim entertainment sports yes yes yes no no no 2005 brian lara international cricket 2005 codemasters sports yes yes yes no no no 2005 cold winter vivendi universal games first person shooter yes no no no no no 2009 50 cent blood on the sand thq third person shooter no no no no yes yes 2010 gedda headz swordfish studios multiplayer see also edit vivendi games sierra entertainment references edit http www.mobygames.com company swordfish studios limited codemasters acquires swordfish studios external links edit this article about a company of the uk is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title swordfish studios & oldid 720532885 categories companies disestablished in 2010defunct companies based in birmingham west midlandsdefunct video game companiessierra entertainmentvideo game companies of the united kingdomvideo game development companiesunited kingdom company stubshidden categories all stub articles 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 fran aisitaliano edit links this page was last modified on 16 may 2016 at 13 19 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view