Psyop is a

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with offices in

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and Stuttgart.

History

Psyop was founded in 2000 by Marco Spier, Marie Hyon, Todd Mueller, Kylie Matulick and Eben Mears in New York City. In 2013, Psyop opened Psyop Games, a video game publishing division run by Muse Games co-founder Brian Kehrer. In 2022, Psyop launched in

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with offices in

and Stuttgart.

Original Productions

In 2015, Psyop released an animated series, "Grandma's Cats Are Trying To Kill Her," in collaboration with DreamWorks Animation. In 2016, Psyop launched a VR experience, "Kismet," a virtual fortune-telling machine for

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, and

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headsets. In 2019, Psyop released a dating simulator, '' I Love You Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator'', in collaboration with KFC. In 2020, Psyop, working with

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company, produced a short film ''Lost & Crowned'', was uploaded on September 12, 2020 and qualified for

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recognition in December. They also collaborated on Absolut's ''It's In Our Spirit'' campaign, which was recognized for its motion design. In 2022, during a

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developer livestream on May 17th, it was announced that the game's developer,

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, would be collaborating with Psyop to produce a dating sim spinoff titled ''Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim.''

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* {{Authority control Mass media companies based in New York City American animation studios Companies established in 2000