splash damage . splash damage ltd type subsidiary industry video games founded may 2001 founders paul wedgwood richard jolly arnout van meer headquarters bromley london england products wolfenstein enemy territory enemy territory quake wars brinkdoom 3 owner leyou number of employees 75 1 website www.splashdamage.com splash damage is a chinese owned british video game developer that specializes in multiplayer first person shooter video games . the studio is best known as the creator of the wolfenstein enemy territory and enemy territory quake wars . contents 1 history 2 games developed 3 awards 4 references 5 external links history edit splash damage was formed in may 2001 by the creators of mods such as quake 3 fortress . the studio began life working with now tv and gamer.tv providing both custom maps and an in game television production solution . splash damage staff also worked to produce and present over 150 tv shows based on quake iii arena capture the flag . in march 2002 splash damage partnered with games domain to produce a number of multiplayer maps for their online gaming service . one of these was a map for id software s return to castle wolfenstein based on operation market garden ; this map was hugely successful online and instantly became the most played third party map for the game . following market garden s success activision and id software asked splash damage to produce three additional multiplayer maps for the return to castle wolfenstein game of the year edition . the same year splash damage partnered with the two companies to develop wolfenstein enemy territory a stand alone expansion based on return to castle wolfenstein . the windows version of wolfenstein enemy territory was released online for free on 29 may 2003 with linux and mac versions following later . wolfenstein enemy territory won several game of the year and editor s choice awards 2 and remains one of the most popular online first person shooter titles . 3 in june 2003 and once again working with id software splash damage created all the maps for doom 3 s multiplayer mode and at the same time began pre production on enemy territory quake wars a follow up to wolfenstein enemy territory using a heavily modified version of the id tech 4 engine and set in the quake universe . enemy territory quake wars shipped on 28 september 2007 and has won dozens of awards to date including several game of the year awards and over 25 editor s choice awards . 4 in july 2016 the sale of splash damage to the chinese company leyou was announced for up to 150 million by paul wedgwood its sole owner co founder and chief executive . 5 games developed edit year title platform s ios lin mac ps3 web win x360 xbo 2002 return to castle wolfenstein multiplayer no yes yes no no yes no no 2003 wolfenstein enemy territory no yes yes no no yes no no 2004 doom 3 multiplayer no yes yes no no yes no no 2007 enemy territory quake wars no yes yes yes no yes yes no 2011 brink no no no yes no yes yes no 2012 rad soldiers 6 yes no no no yes no no no 2013 batman arkham origins multiplayer no no no yes no yes yes no 2014 dirty bomb 7 no no no no no yes no no 2015 tempo 8 yes no no no no no no no 2015 gears of war ultimate edition 9 no no no no no yes no yes 2016 gears of war 4 10 no no no no no yes no yes awards edit date award result 000000002008 01 01 00002008 develop industry excellence award for best independent studio 11 won 000000002008 01 01 00002008 ultraweb level 4 award 12 won 000000002008 01 01 00002008 golden joystick award for uk developer of the year 13 nominated 000000002009 01 01 00002009 guardian top 100 uk tech & media companies 14 won the full list of awards can be found on their web site . 15 references edit official splash damage studio profile . splash damage . 2010 03 15 . retrieved 2010 03 15 . wolfenstein enemy territory awards . splash damage . 2008 08 04 . retrieved 2008 08 04 . gamespy statistics . gamespy . 2008 08 07 . retrieved 2008 08 07 . enemy territory quake wars awards . splash damage . 2008 08 04 . retrieved 2008 08 04 . https www.theguardian.com technology 2016 jul 12 chinese chicken supplier leyou buys uk games developer splash damage rad soldiers is now available worldwide splash damage s newest shooter is dirty bomb the wait is over tempo has officially launched on the ios app store chapple craig june 17 2015 . splash damage working on gears of war ultimate edition . develop . retrieved july 6 2015 . uk based splash damage is working on gears of war 4 multiplayer . videogamer.com . march 15 2016 . retrieved april 8 2016 . develop awards 08 crown best uk development talent . intent media . 2008 07 31 . ultraweb level 4 award 2008 . ultraweb . 2008 08 25 . retrieved 2008 08 25 . golden joystick awards 2008 short list voting page . future publishing ltd. 2008 08 04 . the top 100 tech media companies . the guardian . 2009 10 08 . splash damage awards external links edit official website official splash damage wiki splash damage entry at mobygames retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title splash damage & oldid 736589213 categories companies based in londoncompanies established in 2001video game companies of the united kingdomvideo game development companies 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 deutschespa olfran aisitalianonederlandspolski suomi edit links this page was last modified on 28 august 2016 at 14 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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