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Age Of Empires
''Age of Empires'' is a series of historical real-time strategy video games, originally developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Xbox Game Studios. The first title in the series, ''Age of Empires'', focused on events in Europe, Africa and Asia, spanning from the Stone Age to the Iron Age; the expansion game explored the formation and expansion of the Roman Empire. The sequel, '' Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings'', was set in the Middle Ages, while its expansion focused partially on the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. '' Age of Empires III'' and its two expansions explored the early modern period, when Europe was colonizing the Americas and several Asian nations were on the decline. Another installment, '' Age of Empires Online'', takes a different approach as a free-to-play online game utilizing Games for Windows Live. A spin-off game, '' Age of Mythology'', was set in the same period as the original ''Age of Empires'', but focused on mythological elements ...
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Age Of Empires (video Game)
''Age of Empires'' (''AoE'') is a 1997 real-time strategy video game based on history, developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft, and the first game in the ''Age of Empires'' series. The game uses the Genie Engine, a 2D Sprite (computer graphics), sprite-based game engine. The game allows the user to act as the leader of an Civilization, ancient civilization by advancing it through four ages (the Mesolithic, Stone, Neolithic, Tool, Bronze Age, Bronze, and Iron Ages), gaining access to new and improved units with each advance. Originally touted as ''Civilization (video game), Civilization'' meets ''Warcraft'', some reviewers felt that the game failed to live up to these expectations when it was released. Despite this, it received generally good reviews, and an expansion pack, titled ''Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome, The Rise of Rome'', was released in 1998. The game is now generally regarded as one of the List of video games considered the best, best video games ...
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World's Edge
World's Edge is an American video game developer and a studio of Xbox Game Studios based in Redmond, Washington. They were established in June 2019 to oversee the ''Age of Empires'' franchise. The studio works with external studios such as Forgotten Empires, Tantalus Media and Relic Entertainment to bring back the franchise. History At E3 2019 Xbox announced that they were establishing a new internal studio which was later named World's Edge. The studio was established in 2019 by Shannon Loftis, the former head of publishing at Xbox Game Studios Publishing, to work on the ''Age of Empires'' franchise. The studio's first title was '' Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition'', for which they partnered with Forgotten Empires, Tantalus Media and Wicked Witch Software. The studio oversaw the project and kept it on the desired track. Shannon Loftis, the founder and head of the studio, retired in 2022, and Michael Mann, the executive producer of ''Age of Empires IV'', took her place. ...
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Xbox Game Studios
Xbox Game Studios (previously known as Microsoft Studios, Microsoft Game Studios, and Microsoft Games) is an American video game publisher based in Redmond, Washington. It was established in March 2000, spun out from an internal Games Group, for the development and publishing of video games for Microsoft Windows. It has since expanded to include games and other interactive entertainment for the namesake Xbox platforms, other desktop operating systems, Windows Mobile and other mobile platforms, web-based portals, and other game consoles. Xbox Game Studios, alongside ZeniMax Media and Activision Blizzard, are part of the Microsoft Gaming division led by Phil Spencer (business executive), Phil Spencer, who is chief executive officer of the division. History As Microsoft Games and Microsoft Game Studios (2000–2011) In the early 1990s, Microsoft published a few video games. It published subLOGIC's ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' and several Microsoft Entertainment Pack compil ...
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Microsoft Windows
Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a Server (computing), server and Windows IoT for an embedded system. Windows is sold as either a consumer retail product or licensed to Original equipment manufacturer, third-party hardware manufacturers who sell products Software bundles, bundled with Windows. The first version of Windows, Windows 1.0, was released on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). The name "Windows" is a reference to the windowing system in GUIs. The 1990 release of Windows 3.0 catapulted its market success and led to various other product families ...
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Hidden Path Entertainment
Hidden Path Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game development company based in Bellevue, Washington, United States. History Hidden Path was founded in 2006 by Michael Austin, Jim Garbarini, Dave McCoy, Jeff Pobst, and Mark Terrano. In 2008, Hidden Path released its first original title, '' Defense Grid: The Awakening'' for Windows and in 2009 for Xbox. A downloadable title, ''Defense Grid'' garnered high acclaim with its twist on tower defense and has sold over half a million units since its release. In 2009, Hidden Path began working with Valve to update and maintain '' Counter-Strike: Source'', first released in 2004. Hidden Path worked with Valve developing '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive''. ''CS:GO'' debuted at PAX Prime 2011 and released on August 21, 2012. ''CS:GO'' is no longer available for Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3 (PlayStation Network), and Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade). Continuing the company's trend of revisiting older series, Hidden Path releas ...
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Age Of Mythology
''Age of Mythology'' is a real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It was released on October 31, 2002 in North America and on November 14, 2002 in Europe. A spin-off from the ''Age of Empires'' series, ''Age of Mythology'' takes some of its inspiration from mythology and legends of the Greeks, Egyptians, and Norse, rather than from actual historical events. Many gameplay elements are similar to the ''Age of Empires'' series, while mythological creatures and supernatural powers move it beyond the realm of realism. Its campaign follows an Atlantean admiral, Arkantos, who is forced to travel through the lands of the game's three cultures, hunting for a cyclops who is in league with Poseidon against Atlantis. ''Age of Mythology'' was commercially successful, going platinum four months after its release after selling over one million units. In 2003, it was followed by an expansion pack, '' Age of Mythology: The Titan ...
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Real-time Strategy
Real-time strategy (RTS) is a Video game genre, subgenre of strategy video games that does not progress incrementally in turn-based game, turns, but allow all players to play simultaneously, in "real time." By contrast, in Turn-based strategy, turn-based strategy (TBS) games, players take turns to play. The term "real-time strategy" was coined by Brett Sperry to market ''Dune II'' in the early 1990s. In a real-time strategy game, each participant positions structures and maneuvers multiple units under their indirect control to secure areas of the map and destroy their opponents' assets. In a typical RTS game, it is possible to create additional units and structures generally limited by a requirement to Resource management (gaming), expend accumulated resources. These resources are in turn garnered by controlling special points on the map or possessing certain types of units and structures devoted to this purpose. More specifically, the typical game in the RTS genre features resourc ...
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Tencent Games
Tencent Games () is the video game publishing subdivision of Tencent Interactive Entertainment, the digital entertainment division of Tencent Holdings. It has five internal studio groups, including TiMi Studio Group. Tencent Games was founded in 2003 to focus on online games. In 2021, it launched its international Level Infinite brand, which is stated to be operated from its Singapore office. History Tencent Games published its first game ''QQ Tang'' () in 2004, which is based on its social media platform QQ. This was soon followed by QQ variant games such as ''Dungeon Fighter Online'', a side-scrolling online beat 'em up game; ''QQ Fantasy'', a 2D online game that incorporates elements from Chinese mythology; ''Xunxian'', a 3D, online RPG; ''QQ Sanguo'', an online casual role-playing game set during the Three Kingdoms period; ''QQ Huaxia'', an online RPG; ''QQ Dancer'', an online musical dancing game that offers QQ IM interactivity; ''QQ Nanaimo'', an online game set o ...
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Superstar Studios
A superstar is someone who has great popular appeal and is widely known, prominent, or successful in their field. Celebrities referred to as "superstars" may include individuals who work as actors, musicians, athletes, and other media-based professions. History The origin of the term in the context of celebrity is uncertain, but a similar expression is attested in John Nyren's 1832 cricket book '' The Cricketers of My Time''. Nyren described the 18th-century cricketer John Small as "a star of the first magnitude".John Nyren, ''The Cricketers of my Time'', Robson, 1998, p.57. The earliest use of the term "superstar" has been credited to Frank Patrick in reference to the ice hockey players on his Vancouver Millionaires teams of the 1910s and 1920s, specifically Cyclone Taylor. In the June 1977 edition of ''Interview'' magazine, pop artist Andy Warhol was asked by editor Glenn O'Brien who invented the word "superstar". Warhol, known for popularizing the term, responded, "I think ...
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Wicked Witch
The Wicked Witch of the West, a fictional character in the classic children's novel ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' (1900) by the American author L. Frank Baum, is the evil ruler of the Winkie Country, the western region in the Land of Oz. She is inadvertently killed by the child Dorothy Gale with a bucket of water. In Baum's subsequent ''Oz'' novels, the Wicked Witch of the West is referred to occasionally. Margaret Hamilton played the role of the witch in the classic 1939 film based on Baum's novel. Hamilton's characterization introduced green skin, a feature repeated in later literary and dramatic representations, including Gregory Maguire's revisionist ''Oz'' novel ''Wicked'' (1995), the novel's 2003 stage musical adaptation and the two-part film adaptation of the stage musical, the 2013 film ''Oz the Great and Powerful'', and the television series ''Once Upon a Time''. In Baum's books The Wicked Witch of the West is the malevolent ruler of the Winkie Country. Her c ...
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Virtuos Games
Virtuos Ltd is a video game development company headquartered in Singapore with studios across Asia, Europe, and North America. Virtuos specializes in game development and art production for AAA consoles, PC, and mobile titles – working as an external developer for other companies. History Virtuos was established in Shanghai in December 2004 and opened its European office in Paris in July 2005. In June 2006, it received investment from Legend Capital. Virtuos opened its Chengdu office in January 2008 and Vancouver offices in January and November 2008, respectively. In March 2009, the company acquired BSP Audio Production Studios. In May 2009 ''Terminator Salvation'' was released in theaters, featuring 3D art made by Virtuos. Virtuos entered Japan after signing a partnership with Kyos in December 2009. In March 2010, it reached 500 employees, and announced new-gen work-for-hire game development. In May 2010, the company ported ''The Price is Right'' to the PlayStation Network. ...
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TiMi Studio Group
TiMi Studio Group ( zh, s=天美工作室群, p=Tiānměi Gōngzuò Shìqún) is a Chinese video game developer based in Shenzhen. A subsidiary of Tencent Games, it operates branches in Singapore, Montréal, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chengdu, and Shanghai. TiMi generated an estimated revenue of US$10 billion in 2020. Reportedly, TiMi is the largest video game operator and developer in the world by revenue. Founded in 2008 as Jade Studio, TiMi comprises several development divisions, developing titles such as ''Honor of Kings'', ''Arena of Valor'', '' Call of Duty: Mobile'', '' Speed Drifters'', ''Pokémon Unite and Delta Force.'' History 2008–2013: Origins as Jade Studio TiMi began in 2008 as Jade Studio in Shenzhen, China. The studio debuted into the Chinese PC gaming market with ''QQ Speed'' (known as ''GKART'' and ''Speed Drifters'' in Western markets), China's most successful racing game. As of July 2, 2019, ''Speed Drifters'' has 700 million registered users, with 200 milli ...
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