6-555: Ashes Cricket is a 2017 video game created by Big Ant Studios , and released worldwide on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows. It was the first Big Ant cricket game to be officially licensed to modern teams and players after the Don Bradman Cricket titles, and had the full licence for the 2017-18 Ashes series , which took place in Australia. As part of this, the game contained the ability to take either England or Australia through
12-717: A "studio for hire" with publishers such as THQ and Konami before moving towards sports games. Symons has explained this move on the basis that "Sport is renewable. There’s always a sequel. There’s always another season”. The studio's first sports game was Australian rules football title AFL Live , released in 2011, for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 . The studio has since gone to make further Australian rules football games, as well as rugby league, cricket, lacrosse and tennis titles. In January 2021, French video game publisher Nacon acquired Big Ant for €35 million. Symons has commented on his ambition "to grow Big Ant Studios into
18-496: The Ashes series, or play as an individual star player. As well as this, the game featured a player creation tool that could be used to either create real players and publish them on the game's "cricket academy", or use them in the series or personal player careers. Its sequel Cricket 19 was released in May 2019. Ashes Cricket was scored positively based on the authenticity and accuracy of
24-543: The company specialises in the development of sports games . Big Ant's games include Cricket 22 , Rugby League Live 4 , AFL Live , AFL 23 , Cricket 24 and the upcoming Rugby 25 and TIEBREAK: Official Game of the ATP and WTA . The studio was founded in 2001 and was originally named Bull Ant Studios, but renamed as "it was getting mispronounced all around the world because they don’t have bull ants ", according to Ross Symons. The studio initially worked primarily as
30-596: The largest developer of sports entertainment software in the world", and increase staff numbers from 66 (as of April 2022) to 200. In April 2023, Big Ant opened a second studio in Adelaide . Symons opined in a 2016 Australian Financial Review piece that interns should be properly compensated for their work. Big Ant Studios joined the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA) in December 2015. Symons made
36-556: The way it represents cricket, with IGN scoring the game 8/10 and noting "There has never been a cricket game this approachable, fully-featured, or fun, and the inclusion of licensed Ashes squads and stadia is just the icing on what is already an exceedingly customisable cricket cake". On Steam , it got a 9/10, from 309 reviews. Big Ant Studios Big Ant Studios Pty Ltd is an Australian video game developer based in Melbourne . Founded in 2001 by chief executive officer Ross Symons,
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