Today Creative Assembly announced the opening of a new UK studio in Horsham West Sussex.
The Total War developer notes that it has grown over 20% since last year, and now represents the largest UK games developer with 800 full-time employees.
Creative Assembly said the new office expansion is intended to support the company s continued growth.
While the entire Creative Assembly team is working remotely at present due to COVID-19, the company has acknowledged that it will look to incorporate on-site with remote work more in the future. In the future we ll be transforming our working model to embed flexibility as the norm, and we need the right environment to achieve that, said Gareth Edmondson, Creative Assembly s studio director.
Creative Assembly have been consistently making video games for over 30 years. During this time, the Horsham, England based studio has become known for a number of high profile franchises including Total War, and the much-loved Alien: Isolation. The studio has now announced its latest expansion, making Creative Assembly the biggest video game studio in the UK.
The UK is home to many well known and loved video game development studios. Some of the most well known include Media Molecule, Codemasters, Ninja Theory, Rocksteady, Playground Games, and Rare – just to name a few. Despite this, Creative Assembly, known for the Total War franchise as well as Alien: Isolation, is in fact the largest studio following the team’s latest expansion.