CONTRACTS to work on two of the hottest new video games this year - Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were Rabbit, and Conflict: Global Terror - have been won by a North Yorkshire business.
They are the latest successes for Outsource Media, of North Park, Harrogate, which produces sound and speech for video games and has among its clients the world's largest games manufacturers, from Sony to Sega and from Electronic Arts to SCi Games.
Its products have reached at least ten million people across the world over the last year, during which time its turnover has doubled to nearly £1 million.
The new projects, won for undisclosed sums, include the sound for the forthcoming Wallace and Gromit game.
Commercial director Dean Gregory said: "Winning the contracts for Wallace & Gromit and Conflict Global Terror underlines that we are world leaders, with the most experienced voice production team in the industry.
"We have the largest global studio network and we employ only the best scriptwriters, actors, sound engineers and directors to ensure the highest quality.
"The use of broadband for high-speed technology means we can serve a global market from our Harrogate base - something which delights us as we are Yorkshire to the bone and don't want to relocate to London."
Many of the original actors from the upcoming Wallace and Gromit film, The Curse Of The Were Rabbit, including Helena Bonham Carter and Peter Sallis, have visited Outsource Media's sound studios in London's Kings Cross to have their voices incorporated in the game.
Outsource Media is also working on the new SCi Conflict Global Terror, expected to go straight in at number one in the games chart, which follows other highly successful "conflict" games including Desert Storm I and II and Vietnam.
Formed in 1996 by chief executive Mark Estdale, Outsource Media now has studios both in Harrogate and London, and representation in Los Angeles and San Francisco. It also undertakes productions across Europe.
The company provides a complete sound package for games, from casting the voices to supplying sound effects from its huge library; from editing and producing to localising, through highly skilled translations and casting, for countries across the world.
Updated: 11:27 Wednesday, May 11, 2005
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