Baltic have been providing specialised services to the Liverpool City Region’s ground-breaking games industry for many years.
Our customers have been working with global brands such as; Sony, Tencent, Nintendo, EA Inc, Disney, Capcom and Activision with local companies being involved with some of the world’s most popular titles including Project Gotham, Racing, Destruction, Derby, Lemmings, Troll and I, Table Top Racing World Tour, Until Dawn, Heavy Rain, Little Big Planet and The Witcher 3; Wild Hunt.
We help power our local games industry with business grade, low-latency, highly available connectivity and data centre services that power development & testing teams, artists, content distributors and for the delivery of immersive technologies (augmented reality, virtual reality etc) helping a growing number customers blur the lines between the physical and digital, revolutionising the way gamers play through to pioneering children’s heart surgery.
Our services range from simple internet access, point to point connections for offices, hosting of developer games consoles (in our data centres) through to the provision of guaranteed speed broadband connections for homeworkers that can also include a full layer 2 extension so a customers development LAN can be extended into an employees home.
Back in 2013, we also constructed LCR Play (originally called the Liverpool Game Developers Network) – a dual fibre and wireless digital network that circles the region: connecting up many of the regions studios, developers, testers and content creators so that they can share content, create test-programs and connect to each other on this super-low latency private network.