Ian Baverstock and Jonathan Newth opened Simis in 1989 and produced a number of flight simulator programs like MiG-29 Fulcrum.

Jonathan was leafing through a Japanese dictionary when he found the numbers nine and ten – "ku" and "ju" – corresponding to the positions of "I" and "J" in the English alphabet.

[citation needed] By 2001, Kuju was employing a team of 80 developers, in three separate offices around the UK in London, Surrey and Brighton.

In the following years between 2002 and 2007, Kuju developed titles including SingStar games and the Battalion Wars franchise.

[7] Headstrong Games has developed versions of The House of the Dead: Overkill, The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest and Top Gun: Hard Lock.