BreakAway Games is a

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based in

Hunt Valley, Maryland Hunt Valley is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, near the site of the Maryland Hunt Cup Steeplechase (horse racing), Steeplechase. It lies just north of th ...

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, established in 1998. Their executive staff is composed of several veterans from companies such as

MicroProse MicroProse is an American video game publisher and video game developer, developer founded by Bill Stealey, Sid Meier, and Andy Hollis in 1982. It developed and published numerous games, including starting the ''Civilization (series), Civilizat ...

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and

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. BreakAway Games first established themselves in the

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market with titles such as '' Sid Meier's Antietam!'' (1998), the 2000 expansion '' Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile'' for ''

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'', '' Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Battle'' (2001), '' Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory'', the ''

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'' expansion for '' Tropico'', '' Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom'' (2002), and the 2003 expansion '' Civilization III: Conquests''.

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tasked them with the development of two expansion packs for their games: '' The Rise of the Witch-king'' for ''

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'' in 2006 and ''

Kane's Wrath ''Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath'' is an expansion pack for the 2007 real-time strategy video game '' Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars''. Developed by EA Los Angeles studios and BreakAway Games studios, it was released worldwide in March 20 ...

'' for '' Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars'' in 2008. BreakAway is one of the largest developers of

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s, having developed several high-profile serious games for the U.S. military and the U.S. Department of Justice as well as various health and charity organizations. The company has strategic relationships with AAI,

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, GMA Industries, and

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, among others. The

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, the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Army War College, the

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, the

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, the

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Joint Experimentation Directorate and many other governmental and military organizations have also used BreakAway-developed software. BreakAway is also the prime developer of '' Pulse!!'', a medical treatment training simulation being developed in conjunction with

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