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Maverick Games is an independent video game studio founded in 2022 based in Warwick, UK. The studio is guided by four core values: Be Inspired, Be Creative, Be Innovative, Be a Maverick.

Developer-first by design, Maverick Games was built on a clear belief: iconic games are created by individuals who are trusted, inspired, and empowered to take bold risks. The team has fostered an environment where world-class talent is encouraged to be curious, creative, daring – and above all, authentic. Maverick Games doesn’t follow the rules – it sets new ones.

The studio is currently developing its debut title, a AAA narrative-led, open-world driving game, proudly published by Amazon Games.

Maverick Games has been recognised as one of the UK’s Best Places to Work in Games in both 2023 and 2024, and received the Best Newcomer award at the 2024 MCV/Develop Awards.

As a reflection of the studio’s deep-rooted car culture, Last year the entire Maverick team set off for the #Maverick1K – a 1000-mile road trip from Warwick to the south of France, undertaken by the team to celebrate their shared love of driving, adventure, and exploration.

The team will be appearing at Interactive Futures 2025, where they’ll share insights from the road less travelled.

Code Wizards Group has been the trusted partner behind some of the most ambitious backend systems in games for over two decades. Founded by industry veterans, we specialise in multiplayer, live ops, analytics, and cloud architecture – delivering scalable, future-ready infrastructure for studios worldwide.

Our team blends deep technical expertise with real-world games experience, helping studios solve complex backend challenges with speed and precision. As an AWS Advanced Services Partner, we lead cloud migrations, performance tuning, and architecture design – unlocking efficiency and enabling rapid iteration.

Whether you’re building a new title, evolving a live game, or navigating technical due diligence, our bespoke consultancy model (powered by our M.A.G.I.C. Methodology) ensures tailored, outcome-driven solutions. With offices around the globe, we offer follow-the-sun support wherever and whenever our clients’ games need us.

From AAA to emerging studios, our mission is simple: to help you ship faster, scale smarter, and focus on what matters: making great games. Leave it to the Wizards.

Learn more at codewizards.io

Playground Games was established in 2010, bringing together some of the most experienced and talented developers from the UK industry, with the vision to create genre-defining titles for a global audience. Since then, we’ve created five critically-acclaimed, award-winning hits; our Horizon games have garnered more than one hundred awards and have been played by many millions of fans.

Today, Playground has three world-class studios in Leamington Spa. In our original HQ, we continue to support and grow the huge, vibrant Horizon community. In our two new studios on the other side of town, we are excited to be developing Fable, a new beginning for the legendary franchise.

Rebellion is one of the world’s most successful independent video games studios but there’s more to us than just games as we also produce books, comics, TV, film, board games and more.

We make great games such as the genre-defining Sniper Elite series and Zombie Army, and publish iconic comics including Roy of the Rovers and 2000 AD featuring Judge Dredd.

Founded back in 1992 by brothers Jason and Chris Kingsley, Rebellion has grown a reputation for producing high quality products that thrill and delight gamers, readers, viewers and fans around the world.

Over the decades we’ve worked on multiple amazing projects including the likes of Aliens vs Predator and Star Wars Battlefront but since 2010 we’ve been working, pretty much exclusively, on developing and publishing our own titles and IP.

Super Spline Studios is the UK’s most established specialised animation co-development studio for the games industry and more! We deliver high-quality and flexible animation services on time, on budget and in constant cross discipline collaboration. Founded by animators, for animators. We are your remote animation department!

We’re proud to be curating and supporting one of the best pools of animation talent in the UK, ready to direct the right skills to the right project at the right time.

Viewers and players now demand more and more from their digital entertainment, but we understand that it’s not always cost-effective for you to hire and maintain full-time animation teams in-house.

So that’s where we come in!

We’ve worked on projects for Disney, DreamWorks, Sega, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros., Sumo, Frontier, Namco, Rovio, Jagex, Cbeebies and Games Workshop, as well as a tonne of original titles too, for everyone from small indie startups through to international entertainment companies.

One of the world’s leading creative media institutions, SAE builds on a proud tradition of exceptional post-secondary education, spanning 54 campuses in 28 countries.

Our intensive, industry-focused courses are all structured within a creative learning environment at the London, Liverpool, Leeds, Leamington Spa, and Glasgow campuses.

SAE offers degree courses across eight specialist discipline streams: Game Art & Animation, Visual Effects & Animation, Audio Production, Music Business, Film Production, Games Programming, Content Creation & Online Marketing, and Web Development. We also offer an MA/MSc in Professional Practice in Creative Media Industries.

Our graduates hold a critical, conceptual, and contextual understanding of their discipline and highly technical skills taught by expert academic staff.

We make games for the biggest names in learning and entertainment – the BBC, Disney, Nickelodeon, Sky, Man City FC, MacMillan, Cambridge University Press and many others.

Follow us to explore educational and entertainment games on Roblox, HTML5 platforms and mobile.

We’re changing the game

For over 20 years we’ve collaborated with visionary brands and educators.

We make the games that bring success to those who dream big.

Winning at games

We create commercial hits, award winners and purposeful games that improve people’s lives.

Government-funded, industry-focused, human-led training for the games, screen and creative industries

We love the creative industries. They play a massive role in shaping the world we live in. They offer careers full of purpose, passion and self-expression. They contribute to economic growth and jobs. They bring people together, enrich culture and light up our lives.

Skilled, committed and diverse talent are what makes the creative industries thrive – yet creative education and training could be so much better. From those looking to break into the industry, to those struggling to keep up with the latest creative tech, to accidental managers who find themselves leading creativity without proper support, to freelancers who are isolated and overwhelmed, training is critical but all too often, expensive, inflexible and not current.

We’ve made it our mission at Mastered for over a decade to fix this and create the skills training – for programmers, artists, producers, creators, makers, leaders and managers – that the creative industry deserves.