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October 2025
Best Places to Work 2025
NaturalMotion Games named as one of the Best Places To Work in the UK video games industry for the 8th consecutive year, at the Gamesindustry.biz Awards. Additionally, we took home the Training and Development Award
2025
Top 50 UK Game Makers
NaturalMotion Games recognised as one of the Top 50 UK Game Makers in 2025
September 2024
Best Places to Work 2024
NaturalMotion Games named as one of the Best Places To Work in the UK video games industry for the 7th year in a row, at the Gamesindustry.biz Awards, where we also won the The Health & Wellbeing Award
June 2024
Star Wars: Hunters - Worldwide Release
Star Wars: Hunters released on iPhone, Android and Nintendo Switch
September 2023
Best Places to Work 2023
NaturalMotion Games named as one of the Best Places To Work in the UK video games industry for the 6th year in a row, at the Gamesindustry.biz Awards
September 2022
Best Places to Work 2022
NaturalMotion Games named as one of the Best Places To Work in the UK video games industry for the 5th year in a row, at the Gamesindustry.biz Awards
December 2022
Launched Access All Areas
Access All Areas is a web-based virtual studio. Explore careers in the games industry and examine the diverse talent pool needed to create amazing games
2022
Take-Two and Zynga Combine
Take-Two completes its acquisition of Zynga. “Combining Zynga’s expertise in mobile and next-generation platforms with Take-Two’s best-in-class capabilities and intellectual property will enable us to further advance our mission to connect the world through games while achieving significant growth and synergies together” Frank Gibeau, CEO Zynga
September 2021
Best Places to Work 2021
NaturalMotion Games named as one of the Best Places To Work in the UK video games industry for the 4th year in a row, at the Gamesindustry.biz Awards
2021
Became Women in Games Corporate Ambassador
The program consists of a worldwide network of studios, companies & organisations who are aligned and engaged with the WiG agenda to support, empower and celebrate female talent in the games industry
September 2020
Best Places to Work 2020
NaturalMotion Games named as the Best Large Company at the Gamesindustry.biz Best Places To Work in the UK video games industry Awards
2020
Joined #RaisetheGame Pledge
#RaiseTheGame is designed to inspire meaningful, cultural and behavioural change in all games businesses, companies and organisations
September 2019
Best Places to Work 2019
NaturalMotion Games named as one of the Best Places To Work in the UK video games industry, at the Gamesindustry.biz Awards
October 2018
Best Places to Work 2018
NaturalMotion Games named as one of the Best Places To Work in the UK video games industry, at the Gamesindustry.biz Awards
January 2017
CSR2 Becomes a Smash Hit
CSR2 garners more than 1 million 5-star reviews and becomes the #1 Top Grossing Racing Game in over 50 countries
December 2016
Dawn Of Titans - Worldwide Release
Dawn of Titans released on iOS and Android, immersing players in a breathtaking, high-fantasy world where they build their own kingdoms and wage war with epic titans
June 2016
CSR2 - Worldwide Release
CSR2 released for iPhone and Android, setting a new standard in visuals, CSR2 delivers hyper-real drag racing to the palm of your hand
February 2014
Zynga Acquisition
Zynga acquires NaturalMotion for $527m to provide next-generation technology and tools; expanding Zynga’s creative pipeline and accelerating planned mobile growth
November 2013
Clumsy Ninja - Worldwide Release
Clumsy Ninja released on iOS and Android. Within its first week of release, Clumsy Ninja was downloaded more than 10 million times
October 2013
CSR Classics - Worldwide Release
CSR Classics is the follow-up title to the successful CSR Racing, drag race classic cars from the 1950s to the 1980s
September 2011
MyHorse - Worldwide Release
Our First free to play game: My Horse lets users live the dream of owning and looking after their own realistic horse. Featuring jaw-dropping visuals and accessible yet deep gameplay, users spend time with their horse in authentic 3D environments
August 2011
NFL Rivals - Worldwide Release
NaturalMotion strikes a deal with the National Football League, allowing you to play as one of the 32 NFL teams on iOS
June 2011
Icebreaker - Worldwide Release
He shoots, he scores! Icebreaker takes the fastest sport on Earth and cranks it up… Backbreaker style!
December 2010
Backbreaker 2: Vengeance & Jenga - Worldwide Release
NaturalMotion reveals two new games for iPhone, iPod touch and iOS: Backbreaker 2: Vengeance, sequel to the multi-million selling title for iPhone, and the skill game Jenga, based on the wildly popular block tower game.
June 2010
Backbreaker
NaturalMotion's first venture into the sports arena on Console PS3/Xbox360
June 2012
CSR - Worldwide Release
CSR - the first in the series of ultimate street drag racing, was one of the top 10 grossing games on iOS in 2012
September 2009
Backbreaker: Tackle Alley - Worldwide Release
First game iOS/Android - Only a Few Have Left Tackle Alley 'Alive'. The Backbreaker series goes on to be downloaded over 7 million times
February 2007
Morpheme Launched
NaturalMotion’s run-time animation product, Morpheme, is the industry’s first graphically authorable animation engine. Morpheme is the most widely used animation engine in the console and PC games industry
September 2001
First Funding
NaturalMotion received its first, pre-incorporation seed funding of £25,000 from Oxford university in September 2001
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