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Wargaming Seattle
Wargaming Seattle, formerly known as Gas Powered Games, was a video game developer located in Redmond, Washington. The development studio was started in May 1998 by Chris Taylor and several other ex-Cavedog Entertainment employees. In 2013 they became the Seattle studio of Wargaming. Wargaming Seattle was closed down in July 2018. History Gas Powered Games was formed in May 1998 by Chris Taylor, alongside Jake McMahon, Bartosz Kijanka, Mike Biddlecombe, and Rick Saenz. Their launch title was the 2002 3D role-playing video game ''Dungeon Siege'', published by Microsoft Game Studios. Apart from its custom graphics engine, it also featured simple and innovative role-playing rules and mechanics that made it stand out from a market already crowded with sword and sorcery/fantasy role-playing games. In 2003 Gas Powered released a stand-alone expansion pack for the game, '' Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna''. The expansion was co-developed by Mad Doc Software and again published by Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company is a company (law), company completely or partially owned or controlled by another company, called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the subsidiary company. Unlike regional branches or divisions, subsidiaries are considered to be distinct entities from their parent companies; they are required to follow the laws of where they are incorporated, and they maintain their own executive leadership. Two or more subsidiaries primarily controlled by same entity/group are considered to be sister companies of each other. Subsidiaries are a common feature of modern business, and most multinational corporations organize their operations via the creation and purchase of subsidiary companies. Examples of holding companies are Berkshire Hathaway, Jefferies Financial Group, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Citigroup, which have subsidiaries involved in many different Industry (e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft 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, 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 compilations of minigames, but was bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forged Alliance
''Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance'' is a stand-alone real-time strategy video game released at the end of October, 2007 as the expansion to '' Supreme Commander''. The second title in the franchise, it was similarly developed by Gas Powered Games and published by THQ. As a standalone expansion, it is possible to play ''Forged Alliance'' without owning the original game, although without a valid CD key for ''Supreme Commander'', online play is limited to the new faction, the Seraphim. Besides the new playable faction, ''Forged Alliance'' adds new gameplay features to the game, several new units for the three preexisting factions, and has optimizations for increased performance in response to issues with the original game. Gameplay Gameplay in ''Forged Alliance'' is largely the same as in the original ''Supreme Commander''. The player uses a giant bipedal mech called an Armored Command Unit (or ACU) to build an army with which they can conquer their opponents. ''Forged Allianc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atari
Atari () is a brand name that has been owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by French holding company Atari SA (formerly Infogrames) and its focus is on "video games, consumer hardware, licensing and blockchain". The original Atari, Inc., founded in Sunnyvale, California, United States in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, was a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles, and home computers. The company's products, such as '' Pong'' and the Atari 2600, helped define the electronic entertainment industry from the 1970s to the mid-1980s. In 1984, as a result of the video game crash of 1983, the assets of the home console and computer divisions of the original Atari Inc. were sold off to Jack Tramiel's Tramel Technology Ltd., which then renamed itself to Atari Corporation, while the remaining part of Atari, Inc. was renamed Atari Games Inc. In early 1985, Warner established a new corporation jointly with Namco subsequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intellectual Property
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. The modern concept of intellectual property developed in England in the 17th and 18th centuries. The term "intellectual property" began to be used in the 19th century, though it was not until the late 20th century that intellectual property became commonplace in most of the world's List of national legal systems, legal systems."property as a common descriptor of the field probably traces to the foundation of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) by the United Nations." in Mark A. Lemley''Property, Intellectual Property, and Free Riding'', Texas Law Review, 2005, Vol. 83:1031, page 1033, footnote 4. Supporters of intellectual property laws often describe their main purpose as encouragin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Total Annihilation
''Total Annihilation'' is a science fiction real-time strategy video game released in September 1997 for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS by Cavedog Entertainment and distributed internationally by GT Interactive. Two expansion packs were released in 1998, '' The Core Contingency'' on April 29 and '' Battle Tactics'' on July 20, while a medieval-themed spin-off called '' Total Annihilation: Kingdoms'' was released on June 25, 1999. Rights to the game passed to Infogrames (later Atari) following the 1999 acquisition and closure of Cavedog Entertainment's parent company, Humongous Entertainment. In July 2013, Wargaming bought the ''Total Annihilation'' franchise from Atari's bankruptcy proceedings. ''Total Annihilation'' has been re-released on Steam and GOG, but is no longer actively supported. The creators of XTA, a mod for ''Total Annihilation'', independently developed the open-source 3D graphics Spring game engine. The ''Total Annihilation 3D'' project began in 2006. Former le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PC Gamer
''PC Gamer'' is a magazine and website founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc. The magazine has several regional editions, with the UK and US editions becoming the best selling PC games magazines in their respective countries. The magazine features news on developments in the video game industry, previews of new games, and reviews of the latest popular PC games, along with other features relating to hardware, mods, "classic" games and various other topics. ''PC Gamer'' and parent Future began digital ''PC Gaming Show'' at E3 2015. Review system ''PC Gamer'' reviews are written by the magazine's editors and freelance writers, and rate games on a percent scale. In August 2023, '' Baldur's Gate 3'' became the first game to receive a rating of 97% in the UK edition. Prior to this, no game was awarded more than 96% by the UK edition (''Kerbal Space Program'', '' Civilization II'', ''Half-Life'', '' Half-Life 2'', ''Minecraf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Commander (game)
''Supreme Commander'' (sometimes ''SupCom'') is a 2007 real-time strategy video game designed by Chris Taylor and developed by his company, Gas Powered Games. The game is considered to be a spiritual successor, not a direct sequel, to Taylor's 1997 game '' Total Annihilation'', and also the ''Spring'' remake. First announced in the August 2005 edition of ''PC Gamer'' magazine, the game was released in Europe on February 16, 2007, and in North America on February 20. The standalone expansion '' Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance'' was released on November 6 of the same year. The sequel, '' Supreme Commander 2'', was released in 2010. Nowadays, the original ''Supreme Commander'' is played through the community client called Forged Alliance Forever; the game has been further developed and balanced, and offers a wide variety of community mods. The gameplay of ''Supreme Commander'' focuses on using a giant bipedal mech called an Armored Command Unit (ACU), the so-called "Supr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Take-Two Interactive
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in New York City founded by Ryan Brant in September 1993. The company owns three major Imprint (trade name), publishing labels, Rockstar Games, Zynga and 2K (company), 2K, which operate internal Video game developer, game development studios. Take-Two created the Private Division label to support publishing from independent video game development, independent developers, though it sold the label in 2024. The company also formed Ghost Story Games which was a former 2K studio under the name Irrational Games. The company acquired the developers Socialpoint, Playdots and Nordeus to establish itself in the mobile game market. The company also owns 50% of professional eSports, esports organization NBA 2K League through NBA Take-Two Media. Take-Two's combined portfolio includes franchises such as ''BioShock (series), BioShock'', ''Borderlands (series), Borderlands'', ''Civilization (series), Civilizat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungeon Siege II
''Dungeon Siege II'' is an action role-playing video game, the sequel to 2002's ''Dungeon Siege''. It was developed by Gas Powered Games and released in 2005. The story is a continuation of the ''Dungeon Siege'' storyline. An expansion '' Broken World'' was released in 2006. The game play centers around a class system of Melee, Ranger, Nature magic and Combat magic with the introduction of two additional classes in the expansion pack "Broken World". The player controlled protagonist finds themselves changing alliances once their friend, Drevin, is killed in the main story line and works to defeat the villain Valdis. Players can recruit NPC players with unique personalities and attributes which offers depth to game play. The game was favorably received upon release, scoring an 80 on Metacritic and winning ''PC Gamer US'' "Best Roleplaying Game 2005" award. Gameplay Unlike ''Dungeon Siege'', ''Dungeon Siege II'' takes a more varied approach to its gameplay. The original game wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad Doc Software
Rockstar New England, Inc. (formerly Mad Doc Software, LLC) is an American video game developer and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Andover, Massachusetts. Ian Lane Davis founded the company as Mad Doc Software in November 1999 after working as a technical director for Activision. The studio worked with Activision on '' Star Trek: Armada'' before leading the development of its sequel, '' Star Trek: Armada II''. Starting in 2002, Mad Doc was the principal developer of the ''Empire Earth'' series, developing two games and two expansions. While the successful '' Empire Earth II'' landed the company publishing contracts with Rockstar Games and Bethesda Softworks, '' Empire Earth III'' was a critical and commercial failure and led to the end of the series. Mad Doc developed '' Star Trek: Legacy'' for Bethesda Softworks and '' Bully: Scholarship Edition'' for Rockstar Games. After the latter was released in March 2008, Rockstar Games's parent company, Take-Two Interactive, bought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
