Hazelight Studios

Hazelight Studios
Company typePrivate
IndustryVideo games
Founded2014; 11 years ago (2014)
FounderJosef Fares
Headquarters
Stockholm
,
Sweden
Key people
Oskar Wolontis (studio manager)
Products
Number of employees
65
Websitehazelight.se

Hazelight Studios is a video game development company based in Stockholm, Sweden. Founded by director Josef Fares in 2014, the company is best known for developing cooperative multiplayer games A Way Out and It Takes Two. Both games were published by Electronic Arts under the EA Originals label.

History

Josef Fares, founder and creative director of the studio

Prior to founding Hazelight, Josef Fares was a film director. His first video game project was Starbreeze Studios' Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, which received critical acclaim when it was released in 2013. Following the success of Brothers, Fares decided to found a new video game production company based in Stockholm, with the focus of creating a mature, story-focused game.[1] He was joined by the core Brothers development team from Starbreeze, which included Claes Engdal, Emil Claeson, Anders Olsson and Filip Coulianos. The studio was announced at The Game Awards 2014 by publisher Electronic Arts, which also revealed that it would publish the studio's first title. EA allowed Hazelight to share space at DICE so that they could fully focus on creating their game.[2]

The company's first game, A Way Out, was announced by EA at E3 2017. It was part of EA Originals, EA's initiative to support independent games. The program allowed Hazelight to retain full creative control while receiving most of the game's profit after the development cost was recouped. EA gave the team a budget of $3.7 million.[3] The game was released in March 2018 and it received generally positive reviews and sold 1 million copies within 2 weeks.[4] The studio partnered with EA again for their next title, It Takes Two, a co-op platform game released in March 2021.[5] The game won three awards during The Game Awards for Best Family Game, Best Multiplayer Game, and Game of the Year,[6] as well as two awards during the D.I.C.E. Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Game Design and Game of the Year.[7]

In January 2022, Hazelight announced that they partnered with Dmitri M. Johnson and his company DJ2 Entertainment to adapt It Takes Two for television and film.[8] It was then announced in April 2022 that Amazon Studios picked up the project to develop into a film adaptation to be written by Pat Casey and Josh Miller with Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, and Hiram Garcia attached as producers under Seven Bucks Productions.[9]

Games

Year Title Platform(s) Publisher
2018 A Way Out PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One Electronic Arts
2021 It Takes Two Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
2025 Split Fiction PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox Series X/S

References

  1. ^ Mahardy, Mike (3 May 2017). "Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Creator Announces Hazelight Studio". IGN. Archived from the original on 6 December 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  2. ^ Suszek, Mike (8 December 2014). "Here's that teaser from Brothers dev's new studio, Hazelight". Engadget. Archived from the original on 10 December 2021. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  3. ^ Fares, Josef (11 June 2017). "A Way Out creator Josef Fares: 'If you don't like it, you can break my legs'". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  4. ^ Minotti, Mike (13 April 2018). "A Way Out passes 1 million sold". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  5. ^ Nunneley, Stephanny (11 December 2020). "Hazelight reveals co-op adventure It Takes Two at The Game Awards 2020". VG247. Archived from the original on 11 December 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  6. ^ "The Game Awards Nominees: 'Deathloop', 'Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart' Lead 2021 List". Deadline. 16 November 2021. Archived from the original on 16 November 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  7. ^ "D.I.C.E. Awards By Video Game Details It Takes Two". interactive.org. Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  8. ^ Otterson, Joe (31 January 2022). "'It Takes Two' Developer Hazelight Studios Teams With dj2 Entertainment to Adapt Game for Film, TV (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  9. ^ Otterson, Joe (20 April 2022). "'It Takes Two' Movie Lands at Amazon, Seven Bucks Productions Joins dj2 Entertainment as Producers (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on 20 April 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2023.

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