Brighton based Gaming Studio joins Tech Community

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Tom Kilkelly

Electric Square, a gaming studio from Brighton, is the latest addition the Circus Street tech community-led development in Brighton city centre.

The studio have signed a lease for two floors in the Circus Street office as they continue to expand their development studio. The move sees Electric Square joining cloud hosting provider Hyve Managed Hosting, who occupy the top two floors of the office.

Electric Square’s Studio Head Nathan Gouveia said: “We chose The Office at Circus Street because it’s a stunning, modern building based in an exciting new part of the city, surrounded by the buzz of creative organisations, matching our bold ambitions for Electric Square to be the global leader in AAA console game development.”

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Electric Square is part of the Keywords Group and provide development expertise to international brands including: Assassin’s Creed, Need for Speed, Forza, and the Battlefield franchise.

Development director at U+I Rob Sloper added: “The addition of Electric Square at our Circus Street development in Brighton once again underlines Brighton’s place as a global city that attracts world class talent.

"We always imagined Circus Street would become a new digital and creative hub, and we are happy to see this vision realised with two outstanding industry leaders choosing Circus Street due to its location, award winning design and highly sustainable specification.”

The studio has agreed to a 10 year lease at The Office, which is a space occupying 30,000 square feet at Circus Street.

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Image is ''Circus Street: The Office '' by Darren Cool

Tom Kilkelly

Tom Kilkelly started working as a freelance journalist for The Business Magazine following his graduation from UCL in 2022. During his studies Tom became very interested in the works of Irish authors including Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan). His current role as a freelance business reporter is his first exposure to the world of business journalism. Working at TBM has given Tom the chance to really get to grips with the goings-on in the business hive that is the South East.