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Outsource Media Ltd, operating as OMUK, is a London based production company providing voice casting and recording for video games. [1] OMUK was founded in 1996,[ citation needed ] by dialogue producer Mark Estdale. [1] OMUK has produced audio content for over 1,000 video games, including titles nominated for sixteen BAFTA Games Awards since 2006.[ citation needed ]
Video game tiles that OMUK has produced voice content for include: Warhammer 40,000 Darktide , Horizon Zero Dawn , Clive Barker's Jericho , published by Codemasters; Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series , The Witcher, published by Atari; Haze, published by Ubisoft and developed by Free Radical Design; the Xbox 360 launch title Perfect Dark Zero , developed by Rare; Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit , the action-adventure game; Rogue Trooper, developed by Rebellion Developments; Drakan: The Ancients' Gates , an action-adventure PlayStation 2 game by Surreal Software; Conflict: Desert Storm , developed by Pivotal Games and published by SCi; Wipeout Pure and Wipeout Pulse , developed by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 and PSP; TimeSplitters 2 , published by Eidos Interactive and developed by Free Radical Design, TimeSplitters: Future Perfect and Second Sight, also developed by Free Radical Design and published by EA Games and Codemasters respectively; the Xbox launch title Fuzion Frenzy , developed by Blitz Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios; Yager ; Charles Cecil's Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon ; X: Beyond the Frontier ; X-Tension . Outsource Media also created the voice for Pac-Man in Pac-Man World 3 , developed by Blitz Games and published by Namco. They also provided English translations and recordings for the games in The Book of Unwritten Tales series, [2] for Broken Sword 5 [2] and for Randal's Monday . [2]
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