Mass Media, Inc. is an American

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based in

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History

Mass Media began in the 1980s at

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. In 1991, they formed a production unit called Philips P.O.V. Entertainment Group. Mass Media left

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in 1995 and the company became an exclusive developer for

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. After Time Warner halted their interactive division, Mass Media became an independent developer. It was acquired by

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in February 2007 who closed the studio in November 2008. The company started back up immediately, focusing on developing for the Sony platforms, including the

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. On the PlayStation 3, they developed content and spaces for its social gaming network

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including the games ''The Midway'', ''The Midway 2'', and ''The Midway 3'' which were three game spaces with ten mini-games in each with ten rewards per mini-game. The Green Ticket, used to play the games in the three ''Midways'', was consistently the best selling item in PS Home. Mass Media has also continued to develop game engine technology for PlayStation 3 and other platforms. Notably this includes one of the first non-Sony PlayStation 3 implementations of fully SPU based GPU rendering command generation, significantly reducing rendering overhead on the main CPU (used in ''Saints Row 2'' and subsequent PS3 titles). In 2018, Mass Media was acquired by 2K. https://www.linkedin.com/company/mass-media

Games

Mass Media has developed over forty titles and currently has additional titles in various stages of development. All of their titles were developed with their development tool set called BOLT.

References

External links

Official website
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