His first job in the industry was at Rare where he worked on several titles including Donkey Kong Land, Blast Corps and GoldenEye 007. Norgate left Rare in February 1999 and founded Free Radical Design with Steve Ellis, David Doak and Karl Hilton two months later. He remained in his role as audio director when Free Radical was acquired by Crytek and renamed Crytek UK. Following the closure of Crytek UK, Norgate was employed by Deep Silver Dambuster Studios.