After a career spanning more than 30 years, Insomniac Games founder and CEO Ted Price has announced that he is retiring at the end of March.
Price said he made the decision to step down in 2024, as he «felt it was simply time to step aside and let others pave the way for our team.» Price founded Insomniac in 1994, and while its first game, the 1996 shooter Disruptor, was well received, it was Spyro the Dragon a couple years later that really put the studio on the map.
Success continued with Ratchet and Clank, Resistance, Sunset Overdrive, and more recently the Marvel's Spider-Man series, which took four years to come to PC, not that I'm counting.
He also earned plaudits in 2022 for pressing Sony to allow studios to make public statements on abortion rights in the US in the weeks leading up to the overturning of Roe v.
Wade. Sony wouldn't budge on the matter—«We fought hard for this and we did not win,» Price wrote in an internal email—but Insomniac donated $50,000 to the Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project, an amount matched by Sony.