High Moon Studios

High Moon Studios

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Formerly	Sammy Studios (2001–05)
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video games
Predecessor	Sammy Studios
Founded	2001 (as Sammy Entertainment)
Headquarters	Carlsbad, California , United States
Products	Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019 video game) Deadpool Destiny Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Transformers: War for Cybertron
Number of employees	155
Parent	Activision
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 an 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. It has developed multiple Transformers video games as well as assisting in the development of both Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Destiny.

History

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, California. 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

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	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
2013	Deadpool	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
2014	Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
2014	Destiny	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
2016	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
2017	Destiny 2	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
2019	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes

External links

• Official website
• High Moon Studios profile on MobyGames