Melbourne House

Melbourne House is a game development studio owned by Krome Studios and based in Melbourne, Australia. The company was founded in 1980 by Alfred Milgrom and Naomi Besen under the name of Beam Software, and grew to become one of the longest surviving game development companies in the world and the largest game development studio in Australia.

The company is known for early games such as The Way of the Exploding Fist (Commodore 64) and The Hobbit (1982) (ZX Spectrum). In the early 90s Melbourne House found success with releases such as Aussie Rules Footy and International Cricket for the NES, with later successes including the PC titles Krush Kill 'n' Destroy (KKND), and the sequel KKND2: Krossfire. The company also developed 32-bits versions of games for the Sega Saturn, PlayStation, SNES and PC, before moving on to games for the Dreamcast, GameCube and PlayStation 2.

The studio was acquired by Infogrames (Atari), and was then taken over again in 2006, this time by Krome Studios, who announced that the studio would be renamed to Krome Studios Melbourne.