GI.Biz Interview: Owning the Territory

GI.Biz writes: "Splash Damage is the classic home-grown success story - a UK developer that grew out of an amateur Quake mod team to release two highly-regarded multiplayer shooters, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. After the latter's underwhelming performance in a crowded retail market at the end of 2007, the company emerged from under the wing of id Software to strike a publishing deal with ZeniMax Media, the owners of Bethesda Softworks, which last year found huge success striking out on its own with Fallout 3.

Still independently owned, Splash Damage has been on a major recruitment drive throughout the last year that has grown the studio to more than 50 employees. GamesIndustry.biz sat down with studio director Paul Wedgwood at the GameCity festival late last year to talk about alternative routes into game development, developers' relationship with the critics, Splash Damage's future with Bethesda, and where the online games market is going."