Cloud Imperium Games Opens New Manchester Studio

Cloud Imperium Games has announced that they'll exist opening a new Manchester, UK studio. This new evolution studio is scheduled to make its debut in Manchester'southward Enterprise City district on May 2022. The studio will create more than 700 jobs in the metropolitan area by 2023.

Currently, the company employs more than 700 people worldwide, with 400 employees based at its current UK studio headquartered in Wilmslow, Cheshire. The Wilmslow squad will relocate to their new headquarters at the heart of the Enterprise City district in Manchester Goods Yard – a media, tech and creative cluster designed to connect people and businesses, encourage collaboration and create success through skillful place-making.

The mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham had the post-obit to say regarding this new studio:

Greater Manchester is an aggressive tech hub and has become a magnet for digital talent, with a customs of industry pioneers, specialist academics and artistic minds. Nosotros look forward to welcoming Cloud Imperium Games to the city-region in 2022 - in a motion fix to bring 1,000 jobs over the side by side five years, forth with the opportunity for the region to play a new role in the time to come of gaming

Meanwhile, the CEO of Cloud Imperium Games Chris Roberts, had the following to say:

Manchester is where I started my video game career, when I was hired to write the Game of the Month for BBC Micro User, dorsum in 1983 at the ripe historic period of 14, so it makes me very happy to denote that nosotros have signed a long-term deal for our biggest office all the same, in downtown Manchester.

Manchester is one of the most vibrant and modern cities in Europe, with strong pedagogy links and loftier connectivity, offering outstanding opportunities and quality of life for our team. The new Enterprise City space is the perfect habitation for game development, with its deep investment in businesses focused on media, engineering science and inventiveness.

Manchester joins Los Angeles, Austin and Frankfurt as home to Deject Imperium's squad, working in partnership with our customs of players on Star Denizen and Squadron 42.

In other Cloud Imperium Games news, the studio recently appear the release of the 3.xv update for the Alpha version of Star Citizen. This new update brings new changes to the game'due south mechanics alongside newly implemented medical gameplay, bombing, looting and more.