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Creative Assembly

The Creative Assembly Limited (trade name: Creative Assembly) is a British video game developer based in Horsham, founded in 1987 by Tim Ansell. In its early years, the company worked on porting games to MS-DOS from Amiga and ZX Spectrum platforms, later working with Electronic Arts to produce a variety of games under the EA Sports brand. In 1999, the…

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Founded
1987; 39 years ago (1987)
Industry
Video games
Headquarters
Horsham, England
Founder
Tim Ansell
Key people
Gareth Edmondson (studio director)
Number of employees
882 (2023)

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Creative Assembly

Nodes87
Edges86
Triples133
Avg. degree1.98
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Creative Assembly

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related to Early Total War titles (1999–2004) · 36
Creative Assembly → Activision, As, August, BAFTA, Britain, Dark Ages, Dyck, Electronic Arts, EMMA, European Computer Trade Show, In August, In May, Inhouse, Japan, Japanese, Jeff, June, May, Medieval, Medieval Europe
related to Buyout and later games (2005–2016) · 33
Creative Assembly → Activision, Alexander, All, An, August, Australian, Barbarian Invasion, By July, Despite, European, GameCube, It, January, Japanese, Kingdoms, March, Medieval, Medieval II, North American, November
related to Founding (1987–1998) · 31
Creative Assembly → AFL, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Ansell, Atari, Australian, Australian Football League, Beast, Commodore, Cricket World Cup, DOS, EA Sports, Electronic Arts, FIFA, Geoff Crammond's Stunt Car, Initially, Later, Michael Simpson, MS-DOS, Psygnosis
related to Expansion (2017–present) · 17
Creative Assembly → Arena, Britannia, Creative Assembly Sofia, Crytek Black Sea, December, Halo Wars, In February, In March, In May, In September, Saga Series, The, This, Thrones, Total War, Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer II
Products · 2
Creative Assembly → Alien: Isolation, Total War series
Founded · 1
Creative Assembly → 1987; 39 years ago (1987)
Founder · 1
Creative Assembly → Tim Ansell
Headquarters · 1
Creative Assembly → Horsham, England
Industry · 1
Creative Assembly → Video games
Key people · 1
Creative Assembly → Gareth Edmondson (studio director)

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Creative AssemblyFounded1987; 39 years ago (1987)1.00infobox
Creative AssemblyFounderTim Ansell1.00infobox
Creative AssemblyHeadquartersHorsham, England1.00infobox
Creative AssemblyIndustryVideo games1.00infobox
Creative AssemblyKey peopleGareth Edmondson (studio director)1.00infobox
Creative AssemblyNumber of employees882 (2023)1.00infobox
Creative AssemblyParentSega (2005–present)1.00infobox
Creative AssemblyProductsTotal War series1.00infobox
Creative AssemblyProductsAlien: Isolation1.00infobox
Creative AssemblySubsidiariesCreative Assembly Sofia1.00infobox
Creative AssemblyTrade nameCreative Assembly1.00infobox
Creative AssemblyTypeSubsidiary1.00infobox
Creative AssemblyWebsitecreative-assembly.com1.00infobox
Creative Assemblyfounded in19870.95text
Creative Assemblyfounded byTim Ansell0.90text

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