What year was the company that published the video game Prototype founded?
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Prototype (video game) Prototype (stylized as [PROTOTYPE]) is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Activision. The game was released in North America on June 9, 2009, and in southwestern parts of North America as well as Oceania on June 10, and was released in Europe on June 12. Versions for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were released on July 14, 2015 alongside the sequel as "Prototype Biohazard Bundle". Separate versions of the games became available on August 12, 2015.
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Activision Activision Publishing, Inc., also known as Activision, is an American video game publisher. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles. Its first products were cartridges for the Atari 2600 video console system published from July 1980 for the US market and from August 1981 for the international market (UK).
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Crimson Cow Crimson Cow is a German video game publisher that was founded in 2002. They hold the German license for the and the worldwide publishing rights for A Vampyre Story.
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Ratloop Ratloop, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Houston, Texas, and founded in 1997 in Richmond, Virginia. In addition to traditional retail game products, Ratloop has also done contract work for various 3D multimedia projects such as training tools and "serious games". Their earliest work used the label "Team Epochalypse", and they also own the DBA brand "Mekada", which is oriented towards casual gamers. In 2007, Ratloop Asia Pte. Ltd. was incorporated to support a development team based in Singapore.
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Double Eleven Double Eleven is a British video game developer and video game publisher based in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom. It was founded by former Rockstar Games developers, Lee Hutchinson and Matt Shepcar, in 2009.
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Zynga Zynga is an American video game developer running social video game services founded in July 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. The company develops social games that work stand-alone on mobile phone platforms such as Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone and on the Internet through its website, Zynga.com, and social networking websites such as Facebook, Google+, and Tencent QQ. Zynga states its mission as "connecting the world through games." The company was named in honor of Zinga, CEO Mark Pincus' deceased American bulldog.
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Strategic Simulations Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) was a video game developer and publisher with over 100 titles to its credit since its founding in 1979. The company was especially noted for its numerous wargames, its official computer game adaptations of "Dungeons & Dragons", and for the groundbreaking "Panzer General" series.
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Digitalmindsoft Digitalmindsoft, also known as DMS, is a German developer of video games. The company was founded in July 2006 and is located in Ulm, Germany. The company is famous for working alongside Best Way, a Ukrainian game developer. Together they worked on "Men of War" and "", both of which were published by 1C Company, in 2009 and 2011 respectively.
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Neversoft Neversoft Entertainment was an American video game developer, founded in July 1994 by Joel Jewett, Mick West and Chris Ward. Neversoft is best recognized for their line of "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater" and "Guitar Hero" video game franchises. The company was acquired by Activision in October 1999. The studio was merged with Infinity Ward on May 3, 2014 and was officially made defunct on July 10, 2014.
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Schell Games Schell Games is a game design and development company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 2002 by game developer Jesse Schell. Schell Games creates video games and interactive experiences for education and entertainment.
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Toys for Bob Toys for Bob is an American video game developer founded in Novato, California in 1989. The name Toys for Bob was invented by Laurie Lessen-Reiche; it was chosen to stimulate curiosity and allude to Paul and Fred's appreciation of real toys.
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Tuonela Productions Tuonela Productions Ltd. is a game development and publishing company from Oulu, Northern Finland. Tuonela was founded in 2006. Tuonela produces both board games and digital games. They also distribute some other publishers' board games.
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Tiertex Design Studios Tiertex Design Studios (sometimes abbreviated Tiertex Ltd) is an English developer and publisher of video games, known for its focus on developing games for mobile and handheld platforms. The company has been notorious for its poor conversions of popular arcade games to home platforms. Founded in 1987, the company had several branches in Europe.
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Neon Play Neon Play is a British mobile application development company founded in 2010 by Oli Christie. The company is best known for its games on iOS. The ten billionth download on the Apple App Store was a download of their game "Paper Glider"
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Infogrames Infogrames Entertainment, SA (IESA) (] ) was an international French holding company headquartered in Lyon, France. It was the owner of Atari, Inc., headquartered in New York City, U.S. and Atari Europe. It was founded in 1983 by Bruno Bonnell and Christophe Sapet using the proceeds from an introductory computer book. Through its subsidiaries, Infogrames produced, published and distributed interactive games for all major video game consoles and computer game platforms.
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Tose (company) Tose Co., Ltd. (株式会社トーセ , Kabushiki-gaisha Tōse ) () (also called Tose Software) is a video game development company based in Kyoto, Japan. It is mostly known for developing Nintendo's "Game & Watch Gallery" series, various "Dragon Ball" games, as well as other Nintendo products. Tose has developed or co-developed over 1,000 games since the company's inception in 1979, but is virtually never credited in the games themselves (an exception to this is "Game & Watch Gallery 4" and "The Legendary Starfy" series, as Tose shares the copyright with Nintendo). "We're always behind the scenes," said Masa Agarida, Vice President of Tose's U.S. division. "Our policy is not to have a vision. Instead, we follow our customers' visions. Most of the time we refuse to put our name on the games, not even staff names." As such, Tose has gained a reputation for being a "ghost developer".
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Simis Simis was a video game development company founded by Jonathan Newth, Chris Tubbs, Dave Payne and Ian Baverstock in 1989. In 1996 Simis merged with Eidos Technologies, Domark and Big Red Software to form the Eidos Interactive group.
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Empire Interactive Empire Interactive was a British video game developer and publisher founded in 1987. It went out of business in 2009.
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Take-Two Interactive Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is an American multinational publisher and distributor of video games and video game peripherals. Take-Two wholly owns publishers Rockstar Games and 2K Games. The company's headquarters are in New York City, with international headquarters in Windsor, United Kingdom. Development studio locations include San Diego, Vancouver, Toronto and Novato, California. Notable game series published by Take-Two include "Grand Theft Auto", "Civilization", "NBA 2K", "BioShock" and "Borderlands". As owner of 2K Games, Take-Two publishes its 2K Sports titles, and creates free-to-play mobile titles through Social Point. It also acted as the publisher of Bethesda Softworks's 2006 game, "". As of September 2017, it is the third largest publicly-traded game company (after Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts) in the Americas and Europe.
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Sora Ltd. Sora Ltd. (有限会社ソラ , Yūgen kaisha sora ) is a Japanese video game developer founded by Masahiro Sakurai, a former employee of HAL Laboratory. The company was notable for developing "Super Smash Bros." video games and "Meteos". Its division, Project Sora, developed "".
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TecMagik TecMagik was a video games development and publishing company that released games for 8-bit and 16-bit games consoles between 1991 and 1993.
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Strategy First Strategy First Inc. is a video game publisher based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1988, the company has published numerous games, such as the , "Jagged Alliance" series, "", and "Space Empires" series.