Matrix Games is a publisher of
PC game
A personal computer game, also known as a PC game or computer game, is a type of video game played on a personal computer (PC) rather than a video game console or arcade machine. Its defining characteristics include: more diverse and user-deter ...
s, specifically strategy games and
wargame
A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a realistic simulation of an armed conflict. Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to s ...
s. It is based in Ohio, US, and Surrey, UK.
Their focus is primarily but not exclusively on wargames and
turn-based strategy
A turn-based strategy (TBS) game is a Strategy video game, strategy game (usually some type of wargaming, wargame, especially a wargaming#Unit or map scale, strategic-level wargame) where players take Time-keeping systems in games, turns when pla ...
. The product line-up also includes
space sims
Astronaut training describes the complex process of preparing astronauts in regions around the world for their space missions before, during and after the flight, which includes medical tests, physical training, extra-vehicular activity (EVA) trai ...
(''
Starshatter: The Gathering Storm''),
sports
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, th ...
management sims (''
Maximum-Football''), and
real-time strategy
Real-time strategy (RTS) is a Video game genre, subgenre of strategy video games that do 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 ...
titles (''
Close Combat: Cross of Iron'').
Matrix Games publishes games from a variety of developers, including
SSG, 2by3 Games,
Panther Games, Koios Works, Destroyer Studios, Western-Civilization and
AGEOD.
History
Matrix Games was founded by David Heath and Shaun Wallace in 1999 in
Staten Island
Staten Island ( ) is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located in the city's southwest portion, the borough is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull an ...
, New York City. As of January 2010, Matrix Games has published over 75 titles. Matrix has in-house artists, programmers, and producers which all take active roles in projects of smaller wargame developers who lack the resources to hire full-time staff otherwise.
In May 2010, Matrix Games and
Slitherine
Slitherine Software UK Limited is a British video game developer and publisher founded on 25 June 2000. It is responsible for the production of a range of over 200 strategy and war video games for PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS2, PS3, PS4, Wii, DS, ...
announced a merger of the two companies making it the largest wargaming specialist publisher. Matrix Games also publishes wargames for the US defense industry.
Awards
Awards won for Matrix Games products include:
*PC Gamers Editors' Choice Award 93% for Korsun Pocket November 2003
*Computer Games Magazine – Top 10 of 2005 for Star Chamber
*Computer Gaming World – Wargame of the Year for Korsun Pocket 2003
*Computer Gaming World – Wargame of the Year for Battles in Normandy 2004
*32nd Annual Origins Awards 2006 Vanguard Award for World At War
*32nd Annual Origins Awards 2006 Lock n' Load Band of Heroes
*Charles S. Roberts Award 2007 for Guns of August
*Charles S. Roberts Award 2007 for Empires in Arms
Complete product line-up
* ''
Across the Dnepr: Korsun Pocket Add-on''
* ''
Across the Dnepr: Second Edition''
* ''
Advanced Tactics: Gold''
* ''
Armada 2526
''Armada 2526'' is a 4X science fiction computer strategy game developed by British studio Ntronium Games, released in North America on November 17, 2009. Armada 2526 is an example of the space opera genre, and is the spiritual successor of th ...
''
* ''
Armored Brigade
Armoured warfare or armored warfare (mechanized forces, armoured forces or armored forces) (American English; American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, see spelling differences), is the use of armoured fighting vehicle, armo ...
''
* ''
Banzai!: For Pacific Fighters''
* ''
Battlefront''
* ''
Battleground Europe – World War II Online''
* ''
Battlegrounds: American Civil War''
* ''
Battlegrounds: Napoleonic Wars''
* ''
Birth of America''
* ''
Blitzkrieg: War in Europe 1939–1945''
* ''Campaign Series: Matrix Edition''
* ''
Campaigns On The Danube''
* ''
Carriers at War
''Carriers at War 1941-1945: Fleet Carrier Operations in the Pacific'' is a 1984 computer wargame by Strategic Studies Group for Apple II and Commodore 64. The game was designed by Roger Keating and Ian Trout. A remake, '' Carriers at War'', was ...
''
* ''
Case Blue: For IL-2 or Forgotten Battles''
* ''
Chariots of War''
* ''
Close Combat: Cross of Iron''
* ''
Close Combat: Modern Tactics''
* ''
Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein''
* ''
Close Combat: The Longest Day''
* ''
Combined Arms: World War II''
* ''
Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge''
*
''Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations''
* ''
Commander – Europe at War Gold''
* ''
Conquest! Medieval Realms''
* ''
Conquest of the Aegean''
* ''
Crown of Glory: Emperor's Edition''
* ''
Decisive Battles of WWII: Battles in Italy''
* ''
Decisive Battles of WWII: Battles in Normandy''
* ''
Decisive Battles of WWII: Korsun Pocket''
* ''
Distant Worlds''
* ''
Empire in Arms: The Napoleonic Wars of 1805–1815''
* ''
Field of Glory''
* ''
Field of Glory – Rise of Rome''
* ''
Field of Glory – Storm of Arrows''
* ''
Flashpoint Germany''
* ''
For Liberty!''
* ''
Forge of Freedom: The American Civil War 1861–1865''
* ''
Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich''
* ''
Gary Grigsby's War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941–1945''
* ''
Gary Grigsby's World at War''
* ''
Gates of Troy''
* ''
Guns of August
''The Guns of August'' (1962) (published in the UK as ''August 1914'') is a volume of history by Barbara W. Tuchman. It is centered on the first month of World War I. After introductory chapters, Tuchman describes in great detail the opening eve ...
''
* ''
Hannibal: Rome and Carthage in the Second Punic War'' designed by Forced March Games
* ''
Harpoon 3: Advanced Naval Warfare''
* ''
Highway to the Reich
''Highway to the Reich'' is a grand tactical monster board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates the World War II Allied operation known as Operation Market Garden.
Description
In September 1944, Al ...
''
* ''
Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge''
* ''
Horse and Musket: Volume 1''
* ''
Legion Arena Gold''
* ''
Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes''
* ''
Massive Assault
''Massive Assault'' is a turn-based, computer wargame by Wargaming. Despite featuring 3D graphics, the game is similar to tabletop wargames in that its gameplay is governed by simple rules and takes place on a hexagonal
In geometry, a hexag ...
''
* ''
Maximum-Football''
* ''
Norm Koger's The Operational Art of War III''
* ''
Officers: The Matrix Edition''
* ''
Operation Barbarossa – The Struggle for Russia
''Operation Barbarossa – The Struggle for Russia'' is a turn-based strategy computer game and the only release by Binary Evolution Studios, a small independent development team based in Nuremberg, Germany. The game depicts the Eastern Front t ...
''
* ''
Pacific War: Matrix Edition''
* ''
Panzer Command: Operation Winter Storm''
* ''
Panzercorps: Wehrmacht''
* ''
PureSim Baseball 2007''
* ''
Reach for the Stars''
* ''Scourge of War: Gettysburg''
* ''Scourge of War: Antietam''
* ''Scourge of War: Pipe Creek''
* ''Scourge of War: Chancellorsville''
* ''Scourge of War: Brandy Station''
* ''
Shadow Empire''
* ''
Smugglers IV – Doomsday''
* ''
Spartan
Sparta (Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, ''Spártā''; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, ''Spártē'') was a prominent city-state in Laconia, in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (, ), while the name Sparta referred t ...
''
* ''
Star Chamber: The Harbinger Saga''
* ''
Starshatter: The Gathering Storm''
* ''
Starships Unlimited – Divided Galaxies''
* ''
Starships Unlimited v3''
* ''
Steel Panthers: World at War – Generals Edition''
* ''
Storm Over the Pacific''
* ''
Strategic Command WWII Global Conflict''
* ''
Strategic Command Classic: WWI''
* ''
Strategic Command Classic: WWII''
* ''
Strategic Command: World War I''
* ''
Strategic Command WWII: Community Pack - DLC''
* ''
Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe''
* ''
Strategic Command WWII: World at War''
* ''Supremacy: Four Paths To Power''
* ''
The Last Days: For IL-2 Forgotten Battles''
* ''
Tin Soldiers: Alexander the Great''
* ''
Tin Soldiers: Julius Caesar''
* ''
Titans of Steel: Warring Suns''
* ''
UFO: Extraterrestrials''
* ''
Uncommon Valor
''Uncommon Valor'' is a 1983 American action war film directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Reb Brown, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Robert Stack, Patrick Swayze, Harold Sylvester and Tim Thomerson. Hackman plays a former U.S. Mar ...
''
* ''
War in Russia: Matrix Edition''
* ''
War in the Pacific
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War, was the Theater (warfare), theater of World War II that was fought in Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, ...
''
* ''
War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition''
* ''
WarPlan''
* ''War Plan Orange: Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1922–1930''
* ''
World in Flames
''World in Flames'' is a board wargame designed by Harry Rowland and released in 1985 in games, 1985 by the Australian Design Group. It is currently in its 8th edition, ''World in Flames - Collector's Edition'', each new edition featuring changes ...
''
* ''
World War One: La Grande Guerra''
* ''
World War One Gold''
* ''
World War II: General Commander''
* ''
World War 2: Time of Wrath''
In development
* ''
Combined Arms: World War II''
* ''
Mark H. Walker's Lock 'n Load: Heroes of Stalingrad''
* ''
WarPlan Pacific''
References
External links
*
*{{MobyGames company, matrix-games-ltd
Video game companies established in 1999
Video game companies of the United Kingdom
Video game companies of the United States
Video game publishers
1999 establishments in England