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Grind Session
''Grind Session'' is a 2000 skateboarding video game developed by Shaba Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It was Shaba Games' debut video game, and they would later develop installments in Activision's '' Tony Hawk's Pro Skater'' series. Characters ''Grind Session'' features six professional skaters and nine hidden characters. The player also has the ability to choose between four custom skaters, and edit their tricks and names. Pro Skaters: * Cara-Beth Burnside * Daewon Song * Ed Templeton * John Cardiel * Pigpen * Willy Santos Hidden Characters: * Skator (a robot skateboarder) * Rex (a dragon-human hybrid) * Hang man (a stick figure) * Stanley (an alien) * Dave Carnie (from Big Brother) * Demon * Stinger (a female alien) * Golgotha * Master Ao Soundtrack * Black Flag - Rise Above * Cornelius - Galaxie Express (69 Mix) * Dr. Octagon - Blue Flowers * GZA - Publicity * Jurassic 5 - Jayou * KRS-One - Out for Fame * Man or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaba Games
Shaba Games LLC was an American video game developer founded in September 1997. It was located in San Francisco, California San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of .... Initially it was a nine-person development team, with the founders having split off from Crystal Dynamics, more specifically from the team behind ''Pandemonium 2''. It was acquired by Activision in 2002. Activision closed the studio on October 8, 2009. Games developed References External links * Defunct Activision subsidiaries Companies based in San Francisco Video game companies established in 1997 Video game companies disestablished in 2009 2002 mergers and acquisitions Former Vivendi subsidiaries Defunct video game companies of the United States Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Santos
Willy Monolato Santos (born ) is a Filipino-American professional skateboarder and entrepreneur, specializing in street skateboarding. He was one of the original skaters with Tony Hawk's Birdhouse Skateboards team. In 1992, he was the ''TransWorld Skateboarding'' skater of the year. He won the Munster World Cup Street Contest in Germany in 1997. ''Thrasher Magazine'' calls him "one of the best street skaters during the dark early 90s." Early life Willy Monolato Santos was born in a military base in Subic Bay, Philippines around 1975. His father is a United States Navy engineer from Manila and his mother is Kapampangan. When his father was transferred by the Navy, his family moved to Corpus Christi, Texas when he was one year old and to San Diego, California when he was two. The family moved back to Subic Bay when he was in the second grade. They returned to San Diego when Santos was in fifth grade. Santos took up skateboarding after seeing youths in his area who were also in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Media Network
RhythmOne , a subsidiary of Nexxen, is an American digital advertising technology company that owns and operates the web properties AllMusic, AllMovie, and SideReel. Blinkx was founded in 2004, went public on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in 2007, and began trading as RhythmOne in 2017. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and London, England. RhythmOne acquired All Media Network and its portfolio of web properties in April 2015. In April 2019, RhythmOne merged with Taptica International (renamed Tremor International in June 2019), an advertising technology company headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. History Blinkx was named after blinkx.com, an Internet Media platform which connects online video viewers with publishers and distributors, using advertising to monetize those interactions. Blinkx has an index of over 35 million hours of video and 800 media partnerships, as well as 111 patents related to the site's search engine technology, which is kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllGame
RhythmOne , a subsidiary of Nexxen, is an American digital advertising technology company that owns and operates the web properties AllMusic, AllMovie, and SideReel. Blinkx was founded in 2004, went public on the Alternative Investment Market, AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in 2007, and began trading as RhythmOne in 2017. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and London, England. RhythmOne acquired All Media Network and its portfolio of web properties in April 2015. In April 2019, RhythmOne merged with Taptica, Taptica International (renamed Tremor International in June 2019), an advertising technology company headquartered in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. History Blinkx was named after blinkx.com, an Internet Media platform which connects online video viewers with publishers and distributors, using advertising to monetize those interactions. Blinkx has an index of over 35 million hours of video and 800 media partnerships, as well as 111 patents related to the sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS Interactive
Paramount Streaming (formerly CBS Digital Media, CBS Interactive, and ViacomCBS Streaming) is a division of Paramount Global that oversees the company's video streaming technology and direct-to-consumer services; including Pluto TV and Paramount+. It was founded in 2005, and Tom Ryan is the company's president and CEO. History As CBS Digital Media and CBS Interactive The company was founded in 2005 as CBS Digital Media. In 2007, CBS Digital Media rebranded as CBS Interactive. On May 30, 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for £140 million (US$280 million). On June 30, 2008, CNET Networks was acquired by CBS and the assets were merged into CBS Interactive, including Metacritic, GameSpot, TV.com, and Movietome. On March 15, 2012, it was announced that CBS Interactive acquired video game-based website Giant Bomb and comic book-based website Comic Vine from Whiskey Media, who sold off their other remaining websites to BermanBraun. This occasion marked the retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GameRankings
GameRankings was a video gaming review aggregator that was founded in 1999 and owned by CBS Interactive. It indexed over 315,000 articles relating to more than 14,500 video games. GameRankings was discontinued in December 2019, with its staff being merged with the similar aggregator Metacritic. Rankings GameRankings collected and linked to (but did not host) reviews from other websites and magazines and averages specific ones. While hundreds of reviews may get listed, only the ones that GameRankings deemed notable were used for the average. Scores were culled from numerous American and European sources. The site used a percentage grade for all reviews in order to be able to calculate an average. However, because not all sites use the same scoring system (some rate out of 5 or 10, while others use a letter grade), GameRankings changed all other types of scores into percentages using a relatively straightforward conversion process An A+ was simply 100% or 10/10 and an A was at 95% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zen Guerrilla
Zen Guerrilla was a rock band originally from Newark, Delaware and later based in San Francisco, California. Musically, the band evolved over their career. Their early sound was characterized by Psychedelic music, psychedelic elements, such as delayed guitars and noise washes. Their unique sound gained a growing local following (winning several Philly music awards), however, did not increase marketability. Later, Zen Guerrilla fused blues, Rock music, rock and gospel music, gospel to create a sound which could be likened to bands such as the Jon Spencer, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. History Zen Guerrilla formed in Newark, Delaware, in the late 1980s. Band members Andy Duvall (drums), Marcus Durant (vocals/harmonica), Carl Horne (bass), Daniel McMullen (keyboard), and Rich Millman (guitar) came together from local bands Marcus Hook, the Gollywogs, Stone Groove, and No Comment. Their early sound was characterized by psychedelic elements, such as delayed guitars and noise washes pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The X-Ecutioners
The X-Ecutioners, originally known as X-Men, are a group of American hip hop DJs/ turntablists from New York City, New York. The group formed in 1989 and currently consists of three DJs, including Total Eclipse, DJ Boogie Blind, and DJ Precision. Original members of the group included Mista Sinista, Rob Swift, and Roc Raida. Rob Swift and Total Eclipse formed a side project called Ill Insanity releasing one album together in 2008 entitled '' Ground Xero''. History The X-Ecutioners formed as a DJ crew in 1989 that originally included 11 members. The group's original name was the X-Men, named after the Marvel Comics superhero team. The "X-Men" name was chosen by the crew partly because of their rivalry with DJ Clark Kent and his crew of DJs, known as the Supermen, named after DC Comics' Superman. The X-Men later changed their name to the X-Ecutioners for trademark reasons. After the group's name changed, the crew was later reduced to members Rob Swift, Roc Raida, Total Ecl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth were an American rock band formed in New York City in 1981. Founding members Kim Gordon (bass, vocals, guitar), Thurston Moore (lead guitar, vocals) and Lee Ranaldo (rhythm guitar, vocals) remained together for the entire history of the band, while Steve Shelley (drums) followed a series of short-term drummers in 1985, rounding out the core line-up. Jim O'Rourke (musician), Jim O'Rourke (bass, guitar, keyboards) was also a member of the band from 1999 to 2005, and Mark Ibold (bass, guitar) was a member from 2006 to 2011. Sonic Youth emerged from the experimental no wave art and music scene in New York before evolving into a more conventional rock band and becoming a prominent member of the American noise rock scene. Sonic Youth have been praised for having "redefined what rock guitar could do" using a wide variety of scordatura, unorthodox guitar tunings while prepared guitar, preparing guitars with objects like drumsticks and screwdrivers to alter the instruments' ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NOFX
NOFX () was an American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983. Bassist/lead vocalist Fat Mike, rhythm guitarist Eric Melvin and drummer Erik Sandin were original founding and longest-serving members of the band, who have appeared on every release by the band, although Sandin departed briefly in 1985, only to rejoin the following year. El Hefe joined the band in 1991 to play lead guitar and trumpet, rounding out the best-known iteration of the lineup. NOFX's mainstream success coincided with increased interest in punk rock during the 1990s; unlike many of their contemporaries, however, they had never been signed to a major label. NOFX released fifteen studio albums, sixteen extended plays and a number of 7" singles over a career spanning more than four decades. The band rose to popularity with their fifth studio album ''Punk in Drublic'' (1994), which is their only release to receive a Music recording certification, gold certification by the Recording Industry Association o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Or Astro-man?
Man or Astro-man? is an American surf rock group that was formed in Auburn, Alabama in the early 1990s and came to prominence over the following decade. Primarily instrumental, "Man or Astro-man?" blended the surf rock style of the early 1960s, like that of Dick Dale and The Spotnicks with the new wave and punk rock sounds of the late 1970s and early 1980s. "Man or Astro-man?" was known for their anachronistic dedication to science fiction themes, audio samples, obscure electronic devices (such as theremins and tesla coils), and high-energy live performances. Their earlier albums like '' Is It ... Man or Astroman?'' and ''Destroy All Astromen!'' were known for their traditional surf rock instrumentation and sci-fi sound bite song introductions, whereas their later albums like '' EEVIAC...'' and '' A Spectrum of Infinite Scale'' were known for their use of synthesizers, printers (like the Apple ImageWriter II), and their more abstract, experimental sound. Their recordings were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
