Autumn Games is an American

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based in New York City. The company was founded by Alex Collmer and Jason Donnell in 2007 with institutional sponsorship from Communications Equity Associates and Autumn Entertainment Partners. The company's first video game was '' Def Jam Rapstar'', which was nominated for awards in the annual

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. The game was co-published by Autumn Games and

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. ''Def Jam Rapstar'' was the result of a several-year publishing arrangement between Autumn Games and 4mm Games. In November 2011, the company released their second game, developed by Isopod Labs. The game was a collaboration with

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named '' Jimmie Johnson's Anything with an Engine''. Autumn Games had a publishing partnership with Famous Games. Autumn Games partnered with Reverge Labs to publish the 2D

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Skullgirls ''Skullgirls'' is a 2012 fighting game, fighting video game developed by Reverge Labs and published by Autumn Games, originally released digitally for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and ported to various other home and portable systems afterwards. ...

''. ''Skullgirls'' released on

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and

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in April 2012. The game was later released in Japan on the

in February 2013.

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External links

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