subsidiary industry interactive entertainment genre gaming predecessor sammy studios founded 2001 as sammy entertainment headquarters san diego california usa products transformers war for cybertron transformers fall of cybertron deadpool call of duty advanced warfare ps3 & x360 number of employees 100 parent sammy corporation 2001 2004 sega sammy holdings 2004 2005 sierra entertainment 2006 2008 activision 2008 present website www.highmoon.com high moon studios formerly sammy studios is an american video game developer that used to be a part of sierra entertainment . after a period as independent studio the developer was acquired by vivendi games in january 2006 and retained the current name . it is now owned by activision blizzard a parent company of activision . 1 2 it has developed multiple transformers video games as well as assisting in the development of both call of duty advanced warfare and destiny . contents 1 history 2 games developed 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit originally owned and operated by the japanese publisher sammy the former sammy studios inc. established itself as an independent developer following sammy s pull out of american development in efforts to focus on its japanese productions . in march 2005 the company announced that it had completed a management buyout from sammy corporation and had changed its name to high moon studios inc. with ceo john rowe heading the developer s continuing north american efforts on previous games from sammy studios and other titles including the macabre shooter darkwatch . in january 2006 it was announced that vivendi universal games had acquired high moon studios . john rowe president and ceo of high moon continues to manage the studio from carlsbad ca . after the merger of vivendi and activision the studio became a subsidiary of activision blizzard . following the completion of deadpool activision fired 40 full time employees from high moon studios that worked on the project . activision made this statement activision publishing consistently works to align its costs with its revenues this is an ongoing process with the completion of development on deadpool we are taking a reduction in staff at high moon studios to better align our development talent against our slate . games developed edit year title platform s ps2 ps3 ps4 win xbox x360 xone 2005 darkwatch yes no no no yes no no 2008 robert ludlum s the bourne conspiracy no yes no no no yes no 2010 transformers war for cybertron no yes no yes no yes no 2011 transformers dark of the moon no yes no no no yes no 2012 transformers fall of cybertron no yes no yes no yes no 2013 deadpool no yes yes yes no yes yes 2014 call of duty advanced warfare no yes no no no yes yes 2014 destiny 3 no yes yes no no yes yes see also edit sammy corporation vivendi games references edit vivendi universal games acquires high moon studios . retrieved january 5 2006 . a day in the life . games from within . retrieved july 21 2008 . nunneley stephany may 28 2015 . high moon studios is lending a hand on destiny development confirmed . vg247 . retrieved may 29 2015 . external links edit official website high moon studios profile on mobygames v t e activision list of video games main franchises call of duty crash bandicoot destiny guitar hero skylanders tony hawk s subsidiaries current beenox demonware freestylegames fun labs high moon studios infinity ward king digital entertainment major league gaming radical entertainment raven software sierra entertainment sledgehammer games toys for bob treyarch vicarious visions former bizarre creations budcat creations gray matter interactive infocom luxoflux massive entertainment neversoft redoctane shaba games swordfish studios underground development behaviour santiago related activision blizzard blizzard entertainment vivendi games robert kotick timothy p. riley v t e call of duty games world war ii story arc call of duty united offensive finest hour 2 big red one 3 roads 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