Futurlab has a new CEO as James Marsden steps down
thesixthaxis.comFuturlab founder and all round very nice chap James Marsden is retiring, leaving co-CEO Kirsty Rigden to take on the role by herself. James is going to spend his time working on his real passion, making music, having wrote many of the tunes heard in Futurlab games.
“Over the last 20 years I’ve lived a bonafide indie game experience,” said Marsden in a statement to GamesIndustry.biz. “From humble beginnings with its first employee working from my graduate flat-share bedroom, through countless near breaking point moments along the way, FuturLab managed to stay in business long enough to get lucky.”
“The studio has now grown to over 100 professional game developers with multiple projects underway and a commercial hit that reaches many new players every day. I’m privileged and grateful to have taken this journey, but the time has come for me to attend to a passion that I’ve necessarily had to sacrifice during this time.”
“The truth is that I founded FuturLab with the specific goal of making music for games, and whilst FuturLab could now be fairly described as a leading UK independent game studio – an accomplishment I’m incredibly proud of sharing with Kirsty and the team – it’s not my true passion.”
Futurlab quickly became fan favourites (and favourites of TSA) with release of Velocity as a PlayStation Mini. A remake, Velocity Ultra was created for PlayStation Vita and a full blown sequel, Velocity X2 followed. Futurlab are also behind the unexplainably popular Power Wash Simulator game, and Peaky Blinders: Mastermind.
You can find much of James’ music from the games on iTunes, there are a coupe of James Marsden though, make sure you get the video game one.
Full disclosure: I remixed one of the Velocity Ultra tunes for James, so
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