Frontier celebrates another outstanding milestone today, as 2024 marks 30 years since President and Founder David Braben established the company, which has since gone on to create iconic video games, starring everything from the stars and galaxies beyond them, to the animals that walk our planet, and from the tabletop to the big screen!
Frontier began its journey in 1994, through its founder David Braben. Co-author of the seminal game Elite, David built a team to continue creating high-quality, innovative and iconic games in the rapidly evolving games industry.
Frontier has grown immensely over the subsequent three decades to build a uniquely diverse catalogue of games - enabled by our COBRA technology - that has defined genres, earned critical acclaim and won a place in the hearts of millions of players.
In the beginning, Frontier developed games which built upon the company’s space-genre experience, resulting in releases such as Frontier: Elite II and Darxide. Over time, this expanded to a wide variety of genres, creating a legacy of much-loved classics including RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, Dog's Life and the Wallace and Gromit games. Over two decades, Frontier has developed its expertise in the creative management simulation (CMS) genre with a continuous focus on authenticity and creativity, resulting in the beloved Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo franchises, alongside the Jurassic World Evolution series.
In the company’s third decade, Frontier expanded and transitioned to become a fully self-published developer of genre-leading games, including through partnerships with world-class IPs: Jurassic World, Formula 1, and Warhammer. We're using our extensive experience and track record of success in CMS games to our full advantage, giving us a great springboard and strong foundations for future success.
2024 has seen the release of the highly anticipated sequel to the ultimate theme park simulation, Planet Coaster 2, alongside a return to the grid for F1 Manager 2024. Two beloved PC titles also made the jump to console, with Planet Zoo: Console Editon and Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters both bringing rich and detailed worlds to life.
A huge thank you to our incredible teams, both past and present, and of course our dedicated player communities, for all the support and joy your creations and adventures have brought us in the last 30 years!