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Pinball FX (2023 Video Game)
''Pinball FX'' is the newest main release in the long-running pinball game series from Zen Studios, succeeding the original ''Pinball FX'' (2007), Pinball FX 2, ''Pinball FX2'' (2010), and Pinball FX 3, ''Pinball FX3'' (2017). ''Pinball FX'' features a growing collection of tables that includes recreations of classic WMS Industries, Williams/Bally tables from the 1980s and 1990s, original designs with licenses from Marvel Comics, Marvel, Star Wars, Universal Pictures, Universal, other popular sources, and entirely unique unlicensed creations. Many tables from previous titles have been remastered and included. Tables unsuitable for the age rating of ''Pinball FX'' are released in ''#Pinball M, Pinball M''. There is a separate release for VR and mixed reality using Meta Quest, Quest headsets, called ''#Pinball FX VR, Pinball FX VR''. Many tables from ''Pinball FX'' have been released on #AtGames FX Legends 4KP, AtGames Legends Pinball 4KP cabinets, physical cabinets running dig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zen Studios
Zen Studios is a Hungarian video game developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software with headquarters in Budapest, Hungary and offices in the United States. It is known for its game franchises, ''Pinball FX'' and '' Zen Pinball'', as well as '' CastleStorm'', a tower defense hybrid which received the Apple Store's Editor’s Choice award. The company is considered "synonymous with licensed pinball tables," having produced well over a hundred tables with characters and themes from the ''Star Wars'' and Marvel universes, films like ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', TV series like '' Archer'', ''South Park'', ''Family Guy'' and ''Bob's Burgers'', and video game franchises such as ''Plants vs. Zombies'', '' Portal'', ''Street Fighter'', and '' The Walking Dead''. History Zen Studios was founded in Budapest in 2003 by a team of four people. It started as a technology and work for hire studio, doing game engine development, middleware tools, and ports for other games. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meta Quest
The Meta Quest, initially the Oculus Quest until August 2022, is a line of virtual reality headsets with augmented reality capabilities developed by Reality Labs, a division of Meta. The first-generation Oculus Quest was developed by Oculus (then a brand of Facebook, now a division of Meta Platform known as Reality Labs) and released on May 21, 2019. Since then, Facebook (now Meta Platforms) has released new Quest models and Quest OS (now Horizon OS) updates. As of February 2023, over 20 million total Quest headsets have been sold. After an agreement with Comcast in 2023, Meta Quest headsets now include Peacock. Summary Similar to its predecessor, Oculus Go, the Quest line is a standalone device, that can run games and software wirelessly under the Android-based Quest operating system. It supports positional tracking with six degrees of freedom, using internal sensors and an array of cameras in the front of the headset rather than external sensors, and supports hand trackin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightdive Studios
Night Dive Studios, Inc. (trade name: Nightdive Studios) is an American video game developer based in Vancouver, Washington and a subsidiary of Atari SA. The company is known for obtaining rights to abandonware video games, updating them for compatibility with modern platforms, and re-releasing them via digital distribution services, supporting preservation of older games. Many of the company's releases use the internally developed KEX Engine. Nightdive Studios was founded in November 2012 by Stephen and Alix Kick, former video game artists for Sony Online Entertainment, after Stephen Kick was unable to purchase a copy of the 1999 game ''System Shock 2''. He negotiated with the rightsholder Star Insurance Company, which had acquired ''System Shock'' and other assets from the defunct developer Looking Glass Studios, and Nightdive Studios re-released the game via GOG.com in February 2013. The company was acquired by Atari SA in May 2023. History Founding and ''System Shock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
System Shock (2023 Video Game)
''System Shock'' is a 2023 first-person action-adventure game developed by Nightdive Studios and published by Prime Matter. It is a remake of the 1994 game ''System Shock'' by Looking Glass Studios. The game is set aboard a space station in a cyberpunk vision of the year 2072. Assuming the role of a nameless security hacker, the player attempts to hinder the plans of a malevolent artificial intelligence called SHODAN. A remake of ''System Shock'' began development in 2015, initially developed in the Unity engine. After a successful Kickstarter campaign raised more than $1 million in funding, the game underwent a long development cycle of nearly eight years, being delayed several times (with release windows of 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023) as a result of changing to Unreal Engine and restarting development on the game from scratch twice after an ambitious attempt at a reboot for the series was scrapped after excessive feature creep. The final released game instead focu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Thing (1982 Film)
''The Thing'' is a 1982 American Science fiction film, science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster. Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell Jr. novella ''Who Goes There?'', it tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "The Thing (character), Thing", an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms. The group is overcome by paranoia and conflict as they learn that they can no longer trust each other and that any of them could be the Thing. The film stars Kurt Russell as the team's helicopter pilot R.J. MacReady, with Wilford Brimley, A. Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney (actor), Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, and Thomas G. Waites in supporting roles. Production began in the mid-1970s as a faithful adaptation of the novella, following 1951's '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gearbox Entertainment
Gearbox Software, L.L.C is an American video game development company based in Frisco, Texas. It was established as a limited liability company in February 1999 by five developers formerly of Rebel Boat Rocker. Randy Pitchford, one of the founders, serves as president and chief executive officer. Gearbox initially created expansions for the Valve game ''Half-Life'', then ported that game and others to console platforms. In 2005, Gearbox launched its first independent set of games, '' Brothers in Arms'', on console and mobile devices. It became their flagship franchise and spun off a comic book series, television documentary, books, and action figures. Their second original game series, ''Borderlands'', commenced in 2009, and by 2015 had sold over 26 million copies. The company also owns the intellectual property of ''Duke Nukem'' and ''Homeworld''. Gearbox expanded into publishing with the creation of Gearbox Publishing in 2015. A parent company, The Gearbox Entertainment Compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Nukem (character)
Duke Nukem is a fictional character and protagonist of the ''Duke Nukem'' video game series. The character first appeared in the 1991 video game ''Duke Nukem,'' developed by Apogee Software. He has since appeared in multiple sequels and spin-offs, as well appearing in various games not in the series. Most recently, he starred in '' Duke Nukem Forever'', released by Gearbox Software, which now owns the intellectual property rights to the series and the character. The character was created by Todd Replogle, Allen Blum III, George Broussard, and Scott Miller of Apogee Software. He was redesigned as an action-hero by George Broussard and Allen Blum for the 1996 game ''Duke Nukem 3D''. Conception and design While working on a title originally called "Metal Future", Apogee Software founder Scott Miller expressed his disdain for the title, feeling it should be named after a protagonist instead, taking inspiration from American comic books. He suggested the name Duke "because it's a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chucky (character)
Chucky, originally known as Charles Lee Ray, is the main antagonist of the ''Child's Play (franchise), Child's Play'' horror Media franchise, franchise. Chucky is initially portrayed as a vicious serial killer who bleeds out from a gunshot wound and becomes Chucky through a soul transfer into a "Good Guy" doll. While originally wishing to return to a human body, Chucky's motivations change after ''Seed of Chucky''. Chucky was created by writer Don Mancini and has been voiced by Brad Dourif in all major movie and TV adaptions entries, except the Child's Play (2019 film), 2019 remake of the same name, where he was voiced by Mark Hamill who had previously voiced Charles Lee on an episode of ''Robot Chicken.'' Appearances Film ''Child's Play'' trilogy (1988–1991) Chucky first appeared in the 1988 film ''Child's Play (1988 film), Child's Play''. In the film, a serial killer named Charles Lee Ray, also known as Chucky (Brad Dourif) uses a voodoo ritual inside a toy store to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behaviour Interactive
Behaviour Interactive Inc. (stylized as "bEHAVIOUR", sometimes shortened to "BHVR") is a Canadian video game developer and publisher based in Montreal. The studio is best known for the multiplayer horror game '' Dead by Daylight''. History The company was founded in 1992 in Quebec City as Megatoon. Two years later, the company's current CEO and executive producer, Rémi Racine, co-founded the Montreal-based Multimedia Interactive (MMI) to develop interactive entertainment software for CD-ROM. Both companies were sold to Malofilm Communications in 1996, and a year later, they were merged into Behaviour Interactive with Racine as general manager. In 1997, the studio released '' Jersey Devil'' on PlayStation and later Windows. The 3D platformer was the first console game made entirely in Quebec. Distributed by Sony, ''Jersey Devil'' caught the eye of Infogrames Entertainment, which approached Behaviour to produce what would become '' Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time'', released in 1999. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead By Daylight
''Dead by Daylight'' is an online asymmetric multiplayer survival horror video game developed and published by Canadian studio Behaviour Interactive. It is a one-versus-four game in which one player takes on the role of a Killer and the other four play as Survivors; the Killer must hunt and impale each Survivor on sacrificial hooks to appease a malevolent force known as the Entity, while the Survivors have to avoid being caught and power up the exit gates by working together to fix five generators. The game has featured crossovers with many different horror films, television series, and video games. The game was released for Windows in 2016; PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2017; Nintendo Switch in 2019; Android, iOS, PlayStation 5, Google Stadia, and Xbox Series X/S in 2020; and Steam Deck in 2023. Swedish studio Starbreeze Studios published the game on behalf of Behaviour from 2016 until 2018, when Behaviour bought the publishing rights. Italian company 505 Games publishes the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Addams Family (pinball)
''The Addams Family'' is a pinball machine released in March 1992. It was designed by Pat Lawlor and Larry DeMar and released by Midway (under the '' Bally'' label). It was based on the 1991 film of the same name, and features custom speech (mostly derived from the motion picture) by the stars of the film, Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia. It is the best-selling solid state pinball machine of all time with 20,270 units sold. Overview The machine's game card describes the game objective as being to "Explore the strange world of the Addams Family". With that in mind there is no single player goal, though there are two central objectives: * Tour the Mansion: The Addams Family mansion is located in the center of the playfield and has 12 rooms, each of which offers a different award. Once every award is collected, a "wizard mode" called Tour the Mansion becomes available (see below). * Vault Multiball: In the top-right section of the playfield is a blue bookcase, representing th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
