Rob Hewson
The second generation, running the same name
Andrew Hewson's son: co-author of Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers, chief executive of the reformed Hewson Consultants, and founder of Huey Games, which makes new games modelled on the catalogue his father published.
Rob Hewson is Andrew Hewson’s son, and the reason Hewson Consultants is a going concern rather than only a historical entry.
He came to it from the modern industry rather than from nostalgia: before the revival he was a game director at TT Fusion, the LEGO studio.
What he does
- Co-author of Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers with his father, funded on Kickstarter in 2013 — the project that brought the Hewson name back.
- Chief executive and creative director of the reformed Hewson Consultants, when the book’s success led to the games division being relaunched.
- Huey Games, his own studio, which has taken UK Games Fund backing and makes games openly modelled on the Hewson catalogue of the 1980s and early 1990s.
Why this is in the Vault
Most of this Vault’s British companies end. Hewson is the clearest case of one that did not stay ended, and of the specific mechanism: a book about the period, written with the people who were there, which turned out to be a viable business proposition and pulled the label back with it.
It is also a genuine second generation. The 1980s British industry was young enough that almost none of it has passed to anyone’s children; here the son runs the company, the father is chairman, and the games being made now are deliberately in the line of Uridium and Paradroid rather than incidentally so.
⚠ This entry is drawn from present-day sources rather than the period archive held here, which stops in the mid-2000s. Current roles are the kind of claim that decays.