CCP hf

CCP hf (or Crowd Control Productions) is a video game developer, their Headquarters are located in Reykjavík, Iceland. CCP Games also has subsidiary offices in Slough (Berkshire), United Kingdom; Atlanta, USA and Shanghai, China. It was founded in June 1997 by Reynir Hardarson, Thorolfur Beck and Ivar Kristjansson with $2.6 million from investors including the Icelandic Telco Iceland Telecom and Kaupthing Bank. Approximately half of the initial 21 staff were drawn from the Icelandic dotcom company OZ Communications.

It currently has one video game product, the MMORPG EVE Online, originally published by Simon & Schuster, Inc. in May 2003. Later CCP hf re-acquired the rights to publish EVE Online after Simon & Schuster Interactive ceased trading. Development continues in a regular free expansion release schedule.

To quote their website: CCP was created on a strong vision of creating online games which focus on maximising player interaction and on utilising the new, unexplored possibilities created by having thousands of players interacting in the same game world. CCP has also made one board game, Hættuspil, only available in Iceland. It was published in part to finance the development of EVE Online.