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Trade name | Creative Assembly |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Founder | Tim Ansell |
| Headquarters | Horsham , England |
Key people | Gareth Edmondson (studio director) |
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Number of employees | 882[1] (2023) |
| Parent | Sega (2005–present) |
| Website | creative-assembly.com |
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 company had sufficient resources to attempt a new and original project, proceeding to develop the strategy computer game Shogun: Total War which was a critical and commercial hit, and is regarded as a benchmark strategy game. Subsequent titles in the Total War series built on the success of Shogun: Total War, increasing the company's critical and commercial success.
In March 2005, Creative Assembly was acquired by Sega and became part of Sega Europe.[2] An Australian branch was operated from Fortitude Valley, Queensland as Sega Studios Australia. Under Sega, further Total War titles were developed, and Creative Assembly entered the console market with action-adventure games such as Spartan: Total Warrior, Viking: Battle for Asgard and Alien: Isolation.
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