Becoming the next Sega and Eidos: The transformation of Curve Games
Christopher Dring
Head of Games B2B
Wednesday 26th January 2022
Curve Digital
"What's going on at Curve?"
It's a question we've been asked a few times over the past year following the departure of CEO and co-founder Jason Perkins and publishing director Simon Byron.
During the duo's leadership at Curve, the UK publisher has grown exponentially, primarily thanks to the success of Human: Fall Flat. It received huge private equity investment at the end of 2019, and it has stated acquiring studios.
The departure of two of the company's leaders would normally be a cause for alarm, but Curve's management team today is unquestionably strong. The publisher is now led by Eidos, Sega and Tencent veteran John Clark. It's recently hired former 22Cans COO and BBC's head of games Bradley Crooks, ex-PlayStation UK marketing director and Moshi chief growth officer Rich Keen, and has just announced the hiring of Bossa and Frontier's former marketing director Jo Cooke.
"Sega does define us. There's no point in hiding that. It's factual"
"What got us here won't get us there," Clark tells us as part of an interview around Curve's latest rebrand.
"I have never started a business from scratch. I am not an entrepreneur. I am corporate. I admire anybody who has got the courage to start and build a business. I feel so honoured to be able to come to Curve at this point in time and bring my unique skillset to take it forward. But it got to where it is because of other people. That's an incredible achievement to get it into such a strong profitable company with venture backing.
"The closest I've got is launching Sega Searchlight. But if I did that with no Sega... I'm not that brave. So to come in and be the custodian of taking Curve on part two of its
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