STUDIO
"Criterion Games is an award-winning Electronic Arts studio based in Guildford and now Runcorn UK."
Our story began back in the mid-1990s as a small studio of talented people who craft games with joy, passion, and commitment to great quality.
Growing over the years, we’ve nurtured our values in creative collaboration, diversity, honesty, and unique perspectives in a studio that is a healthy mix of industry veterans and newcomers working together to inspire, support, and educate one another.
Players know us from racing games across the Burnout and Need for Speed series, and in recent years we’ve worked with our colleagues at DICE on Star Wars Battlefront - Rogue One X-Wing: VR Mission, Star Wars Battlefront II, and to bring Firestorm to Battlefield V. The Runcorn team are the talent behind the acclaimed Dirt 5 and have a legacy of creating industry-leading, visceral racing experiences. Now fully integrated with Criterion Games, the teams at both locations are working together to create the future of Need for Speed and extending to future facing initiatives.
We’re a talented team of people who live and breathe games; from table top to video games. You’ll find us playing, creating, breathing, and talking games. In fact, gaming is so important to us that we purposefully have a chunk of time set aside to play games every day! Learning from the widest range of experiences makes our own games better.
We believe that healthy, engaged teams make great games, so we place enormous value on collaboration, fresh ideas, and unique perspectives. We'd love to hear yours! Crunch doesn't help make a better game. We don't do it. For the past three years we are very proud to have been recognised by gamesindustry.biz as one of the best places to work in the UK. Let's talk about how you could be a part of it.
We are a team of creative collaborators and we believe that the most effective collaborators communicate face-to-face but we have also learned in the last year how to be effective working remotely. We are now on a journey of learning how we have the best of both worlds.
Best Places to Work 2022
We’re honoured to share that we won a 2022 UK http://GamesIndustry.biz Best Places to Work Award for the sixth year in a row!
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