Eat Sleep Play, Inc. was an American

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, formed in 2007 by Scott Campbell and

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, director of the ''

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'' series and ''

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''. Eat Sleep Play entered into an exclusive platform deal with

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requiring the completion of either three console/handheld games or three years of development time, with plans to release its first original game in 2010. The first game released by Eat Sleep Play was a port of the PSP game '' Twisted Metal: Head On'' that was retitled as ''Twisted Metal Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition'' for

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and was not one of the three game console exclusive deal. Following his work on

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Santa Monica's ''God of War'' (PS2), Scott and Jaffe expressed a desire to focus on smaller-scale, more personal games. They then directed the PlayStation Network game ''

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'' (PS3), developed by

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. The company was stationed in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The team was largely composed of original members of

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who made the first two ''Twisted Metal'' games.

and Eat Sleep Play developed a new ''

'' game, which was released in 2012. Since Jaffe's resignation in 2012, Eat Sleep Play has moved into mobile game development. In partnership with

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the companies have released ''Running With Friends'', ''Looney Tunes Dash!'', and most recently, ''Ice Age Arctic Blast''. In late 2016, they joined the VR start-up

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. On June 26, 2017, Eat Sleep Play was shut down along with castAR when it laid off staff and closed its doors and moved to

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Games

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