Ilari Kuittinen
Housemarque
Ilari Kuittinen is the co-founder and Studio Head of the award-winning game studio Housemarque. Ilari started his career in 1993, when he co-founded one of the first game studios in Finland, before co-founding Housemarque with Harri Tikkanen two years later. After 26 years of full-time entrepreneurship and running an independent game studio, Housemarque joined PlayStation Studios family in 2021.
The studio’s most recent game “Returnal” released in 2021 on PlayStation 5 was a critically acclaimed title with a metacritic score of 86. The game also won several prestigious game awards such as Best Action Game at The Game Awards and many game of the year awards including Bafta Best Game Award and Develop:Stars Game of the Year.
The company is currently focusing on developing the next game “Saros” under the PlayStation Studios umbrella and has grown to a 120 people strong. Our purpose is to create unique game experiences, and our system goal is to create a product-focused learning organization that is optimized for adaptiveness, learning, and customer value.
