UK-based Unreal Engine games developer Pitbull Studio announce the opening of a new office in Guildford, to support their growing operation, as they continue to attract highly skilled developers from across Europe. This new location sees another expansion to the Pitbull Studio team, which has grown considerably at their head office in the North East of England over the past year. The new setup will initially serve as a base for a team of three and provide hot-desking for visiting Pitbull members, while the studio recruits additional Guildford-based employees over the next few months.

Robert Troughton, CEO of Pitbull Studio said, “The company has grown from 18 to 34 in six months and to support this expansion we are adding another studio based in the South.  We chose to base the new studio in Guildford, as this would allow us to attract high-calibre developers from the region to further strengthen our team.”

Pitbull Studio is supported in the move by Epic Games. Mike Gamble, European Territory Manager said, “Pitbull are a skilled Unreal Engine developer who are working on cutting-edge UE4 technology and also developing content for next-generation games. We are proud to see one of our partners attracting such great talent and expanding so quickly.”

Heading up the Pitbull Guildford studio are Tom Sarkanen, Keith Judge and Mark Satterthwaite: Keith and Tom have over 13 years’ industry experience each. Tom worked on the “Just Dance” and “Driver” franchises and Keith notably worked on the “Fable” series.  Mark Satterthwaite has six years’ experience and is especially skilled at Mac development.

Notes for the Editor

Pitbull Studio

Pitbull Studio is an exceptional development studio founded in 2009, in the UK, from a team of highly experienced games industry professionals– specialists at creating stunningly visual games and applications, working with revolutionary new technologies.

The team on average have 10 years games experience and 5 years of Unreal Engine games experience, each person being carefully selected from the industry’s finest. Most recently Pitbull Studio have specialised in providing technical and artistic support to some of the top studios – including Epic Games (helping with Unreal Engine 4 and some of their games IP), Kuju: Vatra Games (Silent Hill: Downpour), Playsoft (Bladelords), Geomerics (Enlighten), Sega (unannounced new IP) and many others. Pitbull work very closely with Epic Games as an on-going resource to their engine and games teams and, as such, are the most qualified Unreal Engine resource in Europe.

Unreal Engine

Developed by Epic Games, the award-winning Unreal Engine is known for its cutting-edge graphics technology, world-class toolset and scalability across PC, console and mobile platforms. Unreal Engine 3 (UE3) is designed to accelerate developers’ productivity for creating high-quality games, applications, training simulations, visualizations, digital films and animated entertainment. Powering hundreds of games and integrated with two dozen leading middleware technologies, UE3 holds more than 20 technology awards, including eight Game Developer Front Line Awards and five Develop Industry Excellence Awards. The Unreal Engine also owns a seat in the Front Line Awards Hall of Fame. Unreal Engine 4 (UE4), winner of multiple Best of E3 2012 awards, offers unprecedented graphical capabilities and workflow improvements that provide unparalleled accessibility for developers building the next generation of games and applications.

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