Monumental games
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Monumental Games is an independent UK
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 video game developer
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. It was founded by industry veterans Rik Alexander (CEO) and Rocco Loscalzo (CTO) in 2005. It develops Monumental Technology Suite (MTS), a
Massively Multiplayer Online Game
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s (MMO) game engine
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.

Monumental Games was founded out of the remnants of Climax
Climax Group
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's Nottingham Studio, which had been working on the MMOG Warhammer Online for Games Workshop
Games Workshop
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.

It has been involved in licensed third party video game development projects for Microsoft Windows
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, video game console
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s and MMOs with several video game development studios and publishers
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, including Codemasters
Codemasters
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, Eidos
Eidos Interactive
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 and Kuju Entertainment
Kuju Entertainment
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. They also plan to produce and develop video games based on their own intellectual property.

Monumental Games develops, employs, and licenses an MMO game development technology suite for use with its in-house and licensed third party developed MMO game products.

Products

  • Monumental Technology Suite


The Monumental Technology Suite has been licensed by over 50 development teams globally and underpins their own MMO developments.

Games

Monumental Games is presently working on four projects:
  • Football Superstars, a football themed MMO game (publisher Cybersports)
  • Hunter's World, a massively multiplayer online hunting game
  • MotoGP 0910 for Capcom
    Capcom
    is a Japanese developer and publisher of video games, known for creating multi-million-selling franchises such as Devil May Cry, Chaos Legion, Street Fighter, Mega Man and Resident Evil. Capcom developed and published Bionic Commando, Lost Planet and Dark Void too, but they are less known. Its...

  • MotoGP 1011 for Capcom
    Capcom
    is a Japanese developer and publisher of video games, known for creating multi-million-selling franchises such as Devil May Cry, Chaos Legion, Street Fighter, Mega Man and Resident Evil. Capcom developed and published Bionic Commando, Lost Planet and Dark Void too, but they are less known. Its...

  • Little Horrors, the first 3D Facebook game
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