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Catherine Hardwicke was hired to lead production design, and inspirations were taken from Warhawk. Universal helped the game's development and cutscenes, and hired actors to film real-time sequences. Universal published the game and helped with funding and marketing. It was pitched to various publishers and was later shown to Mark Cerny, an executive producer from Universal Interactive Studios, who was impressed by the team's efforts. Using a time frame of one month, the team developed a functional gameplay demo for the game. The game was developed for the Panasonic 3DO because its developer kit was inexpensive, and the team had high hopes for the console. The team lacked experience and considered developing a ' Doom clone'. The team took inspirations from the popular Doom, and hoped to capitalize upon the industry's excitement for a first-person shooter. Shortly after the company's establishment, it began developing its first project. According to Price, the company chose this name because 'it suddenly makes sense', even though it was not their first choice. The studio shortlisted 'The Resistance Incorporated', 'Ragnarok', 'Black Sun Software', 'Ice Nine' and 'Moon Turtle' before choosing the name 'Insomniac Games'. The studio was named 'Xtreme Software' for a year but in 1995 it was forced to rename itself by another company with the same name. Hastings' brother Brian Hastings joined Insomniac shortly afterwards. Price was joined by Alex Hastings, his fellow graduate and an expert in computer programming, in June 1994. The company was incorporated on February 28, 1994. Insomniac Games was founded by Ted Price, who was determined to work in the video game industry since the release of Atari 2600 in 1977, when he was nine years old. Ted Price, founder and CEO of Insomniac Games It was named the twentieth-best video game developer by IGN, and one of the best places to work in America by the Society for Human Resource Management. Over the years, Insomniac Games has received considerable recognition from critics as an acclaimed video game developer. In August 2019, Sony announced it had agreed to acquire Insomniac as the 14th internal studio within SIE Worldwide Studios. It is currently developing Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (2023) and Marvel's Wolverine for the PlayStation 5.īefore 2019, Insomniac remained as an independent studio working for Sony and other publishers such as Microsoft, EA, and Oculus. The studio's most recent project is Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart which released exclusively for the PlayStation 5 in June 2021.

In 2016, Insomniac released a re-imagining of the first Ratchet & Clank, and in 2018 released its first licensed title, Marvel's Spider-Man for the PlayStation 4 an additional game, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, was released for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in 2020. The company worked with Microsoft Studios on 2014's Sunset Overdrive, partnered with GameTrust to release the underwater Metroidvania game Song of the Deep, and released several mobile games and virtual reality projects. Since 2014, Insomniac has actively expanded its portfolio of games. The company began work on its first multiplatform game Fuse in 2013 (with Electronic Arts as its publisher), but the game turned out to become one of Insomniac's worst-reviewed games. The two franchises proved to be both a critical and financial success for the company. Insomniac closely collaborated with Sony Computer Entertainment (later renamed Sony Interactive Entertainment) and created two game franchises, Ratchet & Clank, and Resistance. Insomniac's next project was Spyro the Dragon, a successful video game that spawned two sequels within two years. The company's first project was Disruptor, for PlayStation, whose poor sales almost led to the company's bankruptcy. In 2019, the studio was acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment, becoming a part of SIE Worldwide Studios (now known as PlayStation Studios).

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The company is most known for developing several early PlayStation mascots, Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet and Clank, as well as the Resistance franchise, 2014's Sunset Overdrive and the Marvel's Spider-Man series with Marvel Games. It was founded in 1994 by Ted Price as Xtreme Software, and was renamed Insomniac Games a year later. is an American video game developer based in Burbank, California and a studio of PlayStation Studios.