Silicon Knights is an independent Canadian video game developer. Founded in 1992 by Denis Dyack, the company is headquartered in St. Catharines, Ontario.
Silicon Knights' first games were real-time strategy/action hybrids for the PC, Amiga and Atari. Silicon Knights' last PC game, Dark Legions was published in 1994. Since that time, Silicon Knights has moved from creating PC games to console titles, such as Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain for the original PlayStation. In 2000, Silicon Knights was signed by Nintendo to create games exclusively for its consoles, during which time it produced Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. Together with Nintendo, Silicon Knights worked with Konami to create Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. In 2004, the company ended exclusivity with Nintendo. In 2005, it partnered with publisher Microsoft Game Studios for the Too Human trilogy, though Nintendo still owns stock in the company. In 2008, the company released Too Human, which was published by Microsoft for the Xbox 360. It recently developed X-Men: Destiny which was released in September, 2011 for multiple console platforms.
The company is led by its founder and president, Denis Dyack, who was inducted into the Canadian Gaming Hall of Fame by the Canadian Game Development Talent Awards in November, 2011. He is a member of the Peter Drucker Society, on the board of the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, and advises several universities and colleges, including MIT, McMaster University and Brock University.
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