Editing Neversoft (section)

{{short description|American video game developer}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Neversoft Entertainment, Inc.
| logo = Neversoft Logo.png
| type = [[Subsidiary]]
| industry = [[Video game industry|Video games]]
| fate = Merged with [[Infinity Ward]]
| successor = [[Infinity Ward]]
| foundation = {{start date and age|1994|7}}
| founder = {{Unbulleted list|Joel Jewett|[[Mick West]]|Chris Ward}}
| defunct = {{end date and age|2014|7|10}}
| location_city = [[Woodland Hills, Los Angeles]], [[California]]
| location_country = US
| area_served = 
| key_people = {{Unbulleted list|Joel Jewett ([[studio head]])|Scott Pease ([[studio director]])}}
| products = {{Unbulleted list|[[Tony Hawk's|''Tony Hawk's'' series]] {{nowrap|(1999–2007)}}|[[Guitar Hero|''Guitar Hero'' series]]  {{nowrap|(2007–2010)}} |[[Neversoft#Games developed|Full list of games]]}}
| revenue = 
| operating_income = 
| net_income = 
| owner = 
| num_employees = 120
| num_employees_year = 2014
| parent = [[Activision]] (1999–2014)
| homepage = {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130720031137/http://www.neversoft.com:80/ |date= July 20, 2013|title=Archived official website }}
}}

'''Neversoft Entertainment, Inc.''' was an American [[video game developer]] based in [[Woodland Hills, California]]. The studio was founded by Joel Jewett, [[Mick West]] and Chris Ward in July 1994 and was acquired by [[Activision]] in October 1999. Initially, the studio worked with [[Playmates Toys]], where they worked on the game ''[[Skeleton Warriors (video game)|Skeleton Warriors]]'', which was based on an [[Skeleton Warriors|animated television series of the same name]]. Throughout 1996, the studio grew, and worked on projects with [[Crystal Dynamics]] and [[Sony Computer Entertainment]], but due to internal conflicts, they were cancelled.

After a meeting with Activision in 1998, the publisher agreed to enter into a deal with the studio to create ''[[Apocalypse (video game)|Apocalypse]]'', which used the [[game engine]] created by Neversoft for one of the cancelled Sony projects. During the game's development, Activision asked the studio to work on a prototype for a [[skateboarding]] game, and after an impressed reaction from Activision to the prototype, the publisher released the game as ''[[Tony Hawk's Pro Skater]]'' in 1999 to critical acclaim and acquired Neversoft at the end of that year. Neversoft developed a [[Spider-Man (2000 video game)|''Spider-Man'' game]] for the [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]] the following year, along with six ''Tony Hawk's'' games over the next several years.

In 2004, the company split into two teams to work on two games at once, the upcoming ''Tony Hawk's'' and a new [[intellectual property]], the western [[action-adventure game]] ''[[Gun (video game)|Gun]]''. After Activision's acquisition of ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' in 2006, Neversoft continued the franchise, working on ''[[Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock]]'', which was released in 2007 to similar acclaim to previous games in the franchise. With the game's success, Neversoft focused on developing new ''Guitar Hero'' games, passing development of new ''Tony Hawk's'' to [[Robomodo]]. The last game in the franchise by Neversoft was ''[[Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock]]'' in 2010, which received mixed reviews and sold poorly. Due to this, Activision reduced Neversoft to a support studio for future ''[[Call of Duty]]'' games.

Starting in 2011, the studio worked in collaboration with numerous Activision studios on ''[[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3]]'', who developed the Chaos Mode DLC, and ''[[Call of Duty: Ghosts]]'', who has developed the Extinction mode of the game. Following the release of the latter, Neversoft was merged with [[Infinity Ward]] on May 3, 2014, and was made defunct on July 10, 2014. The last game the studio worked on was ''[[Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare]]'', developed with [[Sledgehammer Games]] and released later that year.