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IW Engine
The IW engine is a game engine created and developed by Infinity Ward, with the current iteration developed in its studio in Kraków, Poland for the Call of Duty, ''Call of Duty'' series. The engine was originally based on id Tech 3 by id Software with Ritual Entertainment's ÜberTools enhancements. Aside from Infinity Ward, the engine is also used by other Activision studios working on the series, including primary lead developers Treyarch and Sledgehammer Games, and support studios like Beenox, High Moon Studios, and Raven Software. History IW 2.0 to IW 3.0 The engine has been distinct from the id Tech 3 engine on which it is based since ''Call of Duty 2'' in 2005. The engine's name was not publicized until IGN was told at the E3 2009 by the studio that ''Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)'' would run on the "IW 4.0 engine". Development of the engine and the ''Call of Duty'' games has resulted in the inclusion of advanced graphical features wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Modern Warfare 2
''Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2'' is a 2009 first-person shooter game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. It is the sixth installment in the ''Call of Duty'' series and the direct sequel to '' Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare''. It was released worldwide on November 10, 2009, for Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. A separate version for the Nintendo DS, titled '' Modern Warfare: Mobilized'', was also released on the same day. A version for OS X was developed by Aspyr and released in May 2014, and the Xbox 360 version was made backward compatible for the Xbox One in 2018. The game's campaign follows Task Force 141, a multinational special forces unit commanded by Captain Soap MacTavish as they hunt Vladimir Makarov, leader of the Russian Ultranationalist party, and United States Army Rangers from the 1st Ranger Battalion who are defending the Washington, D.C. area from a Russian invasion. The game's main playable characters are Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Call Of Duty
''Call of Duty'' is a first-person shooter military video game series and media franchise published by Activision, starting in 2003. The games were first developed by Infinity Ward, then by Treyarch and Sledgehammer Games. Several spin-off and handheld games were made by other developers. The most recent, '' Call of Duty: Black Ops 6'', was released on October 25, 2024. The series originally focused on a World War II setting, with Infinity Ward developing '' Call of Duty'' (2003) and '' Call of Duty 2'' (2005) and Treyarch developing '' Call of Duty 3'' (2006). Infinity Ward's '' Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare'' (2007) introduced a modern setting and proved to be the breakthrough title for the series, creating the ''Modern Warfare'' sub-series; a ''Modern Warfare'' remastered version released in 2016. Two other entries, '' Modern Warfare 2'' (2009) and '' Modern Warfare 3'' (2011), were made. The sub-series received a reboot with '' Modern Warfare'' in 2019, '' Modern Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Call Of Duty 2
''Call of Duty 2'' is a 2005 first-person shooter, first-person shooter game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision in most regions of the world. It is the second installment of the Call of Duty, ''Call of Duty'' series. Announced by Activision on April 7, 2005, the game was released for Microsoft Windows on October 25, 2005, and as a Glossary of video game terms#Launch game, launch title for the Xbox 360 on November 22, 2005. Other versions were eventually released for MacOS, OS X, mobile phones, and Pocket PCs. The game is set during World War II and the campaign mode is experienced through the perspectives of four soldiers: one in the Red Army, one in the United States Army, and two in the British Army. It contains four individual campaigns, split into three stories, with a total of 27 missions. Many features were added and changed from the original ''Call of Duty (video game), Call of Duty'', notably Health (gaming)#Recharging health, regenerating health and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Game Rant
Valnet, Inc. is a Canadian media company established in August 2012 by Hassan and Sam Youssef in Montreal, Quebec. It operates primarily in the entertainment media industry, where it has sought to acquire producers of content in this space. In this way, it has become the parent company of several internet media publications including ''TheGamer'', ''Collider'', ''Comic Book Resources'', ''MovieWeb'', ''Screen Rant'', ''Game Rant'', XDA Developers, and MakeUseOf. According to ''TheWrap'', Valnet websites prioritise "mass quantity over quality" and " SEO bait" content. There have been complaints from writers about working conditions and the low pay offered by the company. History Students Matt Keezer, Stephane Manos, Sam and Hassan Youssef met through their common interest in competitive foosball, and started a business in online pornography in 2003, growing their successful enterprise under the Brazzers name. Keezer began Pornhub under the company Interhub separately from Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Video Games Chronicle
''Video Games Chronicle'' (''VGC'' is a British entertainment website covering video games published independently by 1981 Media. Led by editor-in-chief Andy Robinson, the team consists largely of former ''Computer and Video Games'' staff. Launched in May 2019 in partnership with Gamer Network, ''VGC'' sought to blend professional and mainstream publications to complement the works of other video game websites. The website received five million monthly readers and seven million page views as of December 2020, and has been twice nominated for Media Brand of the Year at the '' MCV/Develop'' Awards. History The gaming website ''Video Games Chronicle'' (''VGC'' was launched on 2 May 2019, led by former staff of ''Computer and Video Games'' (''CVG'', including editor-in-chief Andy Robinson, news editor Tom Ivan, and editorial support from Paul Davies, Tim Ingham, and Chris Scullion. Additional content is written by freelance writers. The website is published independently throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kotaku
''Kotaku'' is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network. Notable former contributors to the site include Luke Smith, Cecilia D'Anastasio, Tim Rogers, and Jason Schreier. History ''Kotaku'' was first launched in October 2004 with Matthew Gallant as its lead writer, with an intended target audience of young men. About a month later, Brian Crecente was brought in to try to save the failing site. Since then, the site has launched several country-specific sites for Australia, Japan, Brazil and the UK. Crecente was named one of the 20 most influential people in the video game industry over the past 20 years by ''GamePro'' in 2009 and one of gaming's Top 50 journalists by Edge in 2006. The site has made CNET's "Blog 100" list and was ranked 50th on ''PC Magazine''s "Top 100 Classic Web Sites" list. Its name comes from the Japanese '' otaku'' (obsessive fan) and the prefix "ko-" (small in size). In 2009, ''Business I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Raven Software
Raven Software Corporation (trade name: Raven; formerly Raven Software, Inc.) is an American video game developer based in Middleton, Wisconsin, and part of Activision. Founded in May 1990 by brothers Brian and Steve Raffel, the company is most known for the dark fantasy franchise '' Heretic/Hexen'', the first two '' Soldier of Fortune'' games, as well as licensed titles based in the '' Star Wars: Jedi Knight'' series and Marvel Comics's X-Men characters, including 2006's '' Marvel: Ultimate Alliance''. Since 2011, Raven has been working on multiple ''Call of Duty'' games as both lead and support developer. Raven's first game, '' Black Crypt'' (1992), was conceived in the late 1980s by Raffel brothers to be a paper-and-pen role-playing game, until the two retooled the project from scratch to become a video game. While it did not perform well commercially, its positive reception by critics and technology efforts led to John Romero approaching Raven to develop new titles for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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High Moon Studios
High Moon Studios, Inc. (formerly Sammy Entertainment Inc. and Sammy Studios, Inc.) is an American video game developer initially formed in 2001. After nearly a year as an independent studio, the developer was acquired by Vivendi Games in January 2006 and placed under Sierra Entertainment. It is currently owned by Activision. It has developed multiple ''Transformers'' video games and assisted in the development of select ''Call of Duty'' games, as well as ''Destiny (video game), Destiny''. History High Moon Studios was formed in April 2001 as a division of the Japanese publisher Sammy Corporation, Sammy, first known as Sammy Entertainment and later renamed Sammy Studios the following year, to develop and publish games in America. After Sammy merged with Sega to form Sega Sammy Holdings on October 1, 2004, Sammy discontinued all video game development in America to focus on its Japanese productions, and planned on closing Sammy Studios as part of this. However on March 3, 2005, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Beenox
Beenox Inc. is a Canadian video game developer established in 2000 in Quebec City. The studio became a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision on May 25, 2005. History Between 2003 and 2007, the developer was essentially a porting house. They completed approximately 30 projects for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems. In 2007, they returned to original game development with the console versions of ''Bee Movie Game'', inspired by the Bee Movie, feature film from DreamWorks Animation. As part of Activision's Electronic Entertainment Expo, E3 2007 media blitz, it was announced that Beenox was the developer behind the Windows version of Activision's Spider-Man game ''Spider-Man: Friend or Foe'', which was released in October 2007. They released the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii and Windows versions of ''Monsters vs. Aliens (video game), Monsters vs. Aliens'' and the console versions of ''Guitar Hero Smash Hits''. Beenox later developed the Spider-Man ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Sledgehammer Games
Sledgehammer Games, Inc. is an American video game developer company formed in 2009 by Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey. The pair formerly worked at EA Redwood Shores and are responsible for the creation of ''Dead Space (2008 video game), Dead Space''. The company is based in Foster City, California. The studio has developed and co-developed various video games in the ''Call of Duty'' series. The company is owned by Activision. In 2024, Sledgehammer Games closed its California office and employees will be working from home until the end of the year. Thirty percent of employees were also laid off as part of restructuring in Microsoft Gaming. History Sledgehammer Games co-founders Schofield and Condrey worked together at EA Redwood Shores in 2005 on ''007: From Russia with Love'', with Condrey as director and Schofield executive producer. The collaboration carried forward to ''Dead Space (2008 video game), Dead Space''. The two men had complementary skills and similar background ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Treyarch
Treyarch Corporation ( ; formerly Treyarch Invention LLC) is an American video game developer based in Los Angeles with Additional studio locations in Vancouver, Canada; and Austin, Texas. Founded in 1996 by Peter Akemann and Doğan Köslü, it was acquired by Activision in 2001. The studio is known for its work for the ''Call of Duty'' series, which it develops alongside Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software. History Treyarch was founded in 1996 as Treyarch Inventions and was acquired by Activision in 2001. In 2005, Gray Matter Studios was merged into Treyarch. As part of the 2007 Leipzig Games Convention, Activision announced that Treyarch would be one of three developers behind their first James Bond-based game, '' 007: Quantum of Solace''. The game was released on October 31, 2008, in Europe and November 4, 2008, in North America. Vicarious Visions developed the Nintendo DS version and Eurocom developed the PlayStation 2 version. Treyarch is a major develope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Activision
Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one of the largest third-party video game publishers in the world and was the top United States publisher in 2016. The company was founded as Activision, Inc. on October 1, 1979, in Sunnyvale, California, by former Atari, Inc., Atari game developers upset at their treatment by Atari in order to develop their own games for the popular Atari 2600 home video game console. Activision was the first independent, third-party, console video game developer. The video game crash of 1983, in part created by too many new companies trying to follow in Activision's footsteps without the experience of Activision's founders, hurt Activision's position in console games and forced the company to diversify into games for home computers, including the acquisition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |