Sucker Punch Productions


Sucker Punch Productions is an American first-party video game developer. It is best known for the franchises Sly Cooper and Infamous. Sony Interactive Entertainment acquired the company on August 2, 2011.

History

The company was founded in 1997. According to the website, it started at the roots of Microsoft, where the co-founders worked in a variety of productivity and software development applications. The brand name came as one of several proposed by the company they did not use at Microsoft due to policies. Chris Zimmerman showed it to his wife for opinion, but she did not care "as long as it isn't 'Sucker Punch'." Considering the opinion of the woman would be completely contrary to demographics for audiences, they selected the company name. Its first game, ' was published by Ubisoft. The company created the first series Sly Cooper, featuring levels and cel-shaded anthropomorphic animals. Sanzaru Games released ' without collaborating with Sucker Punch. The company's second series, Infamous, featured superhuman characters in open world games. Sly Cooper and Cole MacGrath later appeared in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. The next game in development, Ghost of Tsushima, was revealed at the Paris Games Week conference. It was released on July 17, 2020.

Games developed