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Steep (video game) Steep (stylized as StEEP) is an online-only extreme sports video game developed by Ubisoft Annecy and published by Ubisoft. It was released worldwide on 2 December 2016 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and is set to be released for Nintendo Switch in second half of 2017. The game places a great emphasis on online multiplayer, focusing on competing in various winter sporting challenges with other players online.
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Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment Software) is a French video game publisher, headquartered in Rennes, France. It is known for publishing games for several acclaimed video game franchises including "Assassin's Creed", "Far Cry", "Just Dance", "Prince of Persia", "Rayman", and "Tom Clancy's". It is the fourth largest publicly-traded game company in the Americas and Europe after Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Take-Two Interactive in terms of revenue and market capitalization.
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Naughty Dog Naughty Dog, LLC (formerly known as JAM Software, Inc. before renaming in 1989) is an American first-party video game developer based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin in 1984 as an independent developer, the studio was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2001. Gavin and Rubin produced a sequence of progressively more successful games, including "Rings of Power" and "Way of the Warrior" in the early 1990s. The latter—a very low-budget but still plausible offering—prompted Universal Interactive Studios to sign the duo to a three-title contract and fund the expansion of the company.
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Spike Chunsoft Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社スパイク・チュンソフト , Hepburn: Kabushikigaisha Supaiku Chunsofuto ) is a Japanese video game development and localization company specializing in role-playing video game and visual novels. The company was founded in 1984 as Chunsoft Co., Ltd and is the result of a 2012 merger with Spike. It is owned by Dwango.
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Capcom Vancouver Capcom Game Studio Vancouver, Inc. (formerly Blue Castle Games), more commonly known as Capcom Vancouver, is a video game developer owned by Capcom, and currently holds a partnership with Microsoft Studios. As "Blue Castle Games", the company is the creator of several successful baseball sports video games, including "The Bigs", "MLB Front Office Manager" and "The Bigs 2". They have also developed the "Dead Rising" series. Blue Castle Games was acquired by Capcom after the release of "Dead Rising 2", and renamed Capcom Vancouver.
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Fangame Fangames are video games made by fans based on one or more established video games. Many fangames attempt to "clone" or remake the original game's design, gameplay and characters, but it is equally common for fans to develop a unique game using another only as a template. Though the quality of fangames has always been variable, recent advances in computer technology and in available tools, e.g. through open source software, have made creating high-quality games easier. Fangames can be seen as User generated content, as part of the retrogaming phenomena and as expression of the remix culture.
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is a series of military tactical shooter video games published by Ubisoft. In the series, the player is in charge of a fictional, newly conceived squad of U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers from Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (5th SFG) stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Except for the "1st Battalion, 5th SFG" designation, this reconnaissance unit is entirely fictional, as Special Forces Battalions currently only support three Companies (A, B and C). They are often referred to as "the Ghosts". Their role is not unlike other real world special operations forces, in that their operations are kept highly classified. In "", it is shown that the Ghost's unit has multiple designations and is part of JSOC and is also known as the Group for Specialized Tactics (or GST—where the term "Ghost" comes from) much like real JSOC units like Delta Force (1st SFOD-D or CAG) and SEAL Team Six (or DEVGRU).
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Redline Racer Redline Racer (Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing for the European and North American Dreamcast release, European Game Boy Color release and Microsoft Windows re-release) is a racing game that was developed by Criterion Games and published by Ubi Soft Entertainment Software for Microsoft Windows.
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Ultimate Soccer Manager Ultimate Soccer Manager or USM is an association football management video game serie for MS-DOS, Commodore Amiga and Windows 95, produced by Impressions and distributed by Sierra from 1995 to 1999. The game was a massive hit in Europe (except in Germany, where it was worse received due to some similarities with managers produced by local software houses such as Software 2000 and Ascaron), although it gained little support in Japan.
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SG Interactive SG Interactive (Smilegate USA), formerly Ntreev USA, is a US-based publisher of free-to-play online multiplayer games, including multiplayer golf game Pangya (which on December 12, 2016, was shut down), anime-inspired MMORPG Trickster Online (shut down in February 27, 2013), action brawler Grand Chase (Service Transferred to KOG NA in March 31, 2014) And MMOFPS Project Blackout (Service Transferred January 13, 2014) .
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Cyberdreams (UK) Cyberdreams is a British video game developer, based in Liverpool, Merseyside. The company was founded in 2007, but remained dormant until 2012, when it released its first two titles, remakes of Ultrasoft's puzzle games "Atomix" and "Hexagonia" for Android based tablets and smartphones.
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Massive Entertainment Ubisoft Entertainment Sweden AB, doing business as Massive Entertainment, is a Swedish video game developer based in Malmö, Sweden. The company has been fully owned by Ubisoft since 2008. The studio is known for "Ground Control", "World in Conflict", and their latest title "Tom Clancy's The Division".
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Irrational Games Irrational Games, LLC (known as 2K Boston between 2007 and 2009) was an American video game developer founded in 1997 by three former employees of Looking Glass Studios: Ken Levine, Jonathan Chey, and Robert Fermier. The studio was acquired by Take-Two Interactive in 2006. The studio was known for its games "System Shock 2", "Freedom Force", "SWAT 4", and most notably two of the games in the "BioShock" series. Following the release of "BioShock Infinite" in 2014, Levine opted to significantly restructure the studio from around 90 to 15 employees and focus more on narrative games. In February 2017, the studio announced that it had been rebranded as Ghost Story Games and considered a fresh start from the original Irrational name, though still operating at the same business subsidiary under Take-Two.
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Crash Bandicoot Crash Bandicoot is a franchise of platform video games. The series was created by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin during their tenure at Naughty Dog for Sony Computer Entertainment; the series was originally exclusive to the PlayStation family of video game consoles. The series has appeared on multiple platforms and gone through various developers and spans numerous genres. The series comprises eighteen games and shipped over 50 million copies worldwide.
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Relentless Software Relentless Software was a British video game company formed in 2003 that was based in Brighton. The company was best known for developing 12 games in the BAFTA award winning and multi-million selling "Buzz!" franchise from 2005 to 2010. Relentless released its first self-published title, "Blue Toad Murder Files" on PC and PSN in 2009 and "Quiz Climber Rivals", for iPhone in 2011. Relentless has also developed "Air Band" and "Mutation Station", for the "Kinect Fun Labs" series. In 2012 it released "Kinect Nat Geo TV", after which co-founder David Amor left the studio. In 2014 the studio released "Murder Files: The Enigma Express" on iOS, Google Play, Google Chrome and Kindle Fire. In 2016 the studio was shut down. The studio was working on an unannounced title for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One before closure.
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Obsidian Entertainment Obsidian Entertainment, Inc. is an independent American video game developer whose corporate headquarters are located in Irvine, California. It was founded in 2003 shortly before the closure of Black Isle Studios by ex-Black Isle employees Feargus Urquhart, Chris Avellone, Chris Parker, Darren Monahan, and Chris Jones.
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Black Rock Studio Black Rock Studio was a video game developer based in Brighton, England. The studio was founded by Tony Beckwith in 1998 as Pixel Planet. It was then acquired by the Climax Group in 1999 and was renamed Climax Brighton. In 2004, it became Climax Racing, as the Climax Group rebranded its studios. On 28 September 2006, it was acquired by Buena Vista Games and was eventually renamed Black Rock Studio in 2007. The last game the studio developed for the Climax Group was "MotoGP '07", which was completed after its acquisition by Buena Vista Games. The name is derived from a district in Brighton. In early 2011, the company faced lay-offs and was forced to abandon sequels for "Pure" and "Split/Second". Despite good reviews for both games, Disney Interactive Studios turned down both sequels to focus on freemium content.
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Triad Wars Triad Wars is a cancelled open world online multiplayer video game developed by United Front Games in conjunction with Square Enix London Studios and published by Square Enix. It is a spin-off to the 2012 video game "Sleeping Dogs" and the second installment in the "Sleeping Dogs" series. The game had more traditional multiplayer online game elements than "Sleeping Dogs", with the central goal being to "rise to power as a criminal kingpin of the Triad underworld." It featured the same map as the original "Sleeping Dogs".
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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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UWink uWink, Inc. (stock symbol: UWKI) was a publicly traded digital entertainment company based in Los Angeles, California. The company was founded in 2000 by Nolan Bushnell, the co-founder and former CEO of both Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's. After little success developing interactive entertainment for restaurants, bars and mobile devices for several years in 2006 the company changed focus to their uWink Bistro concept, which it describes as an "entertainment dining experience which leverages its proprietary network and entertainment software, including the uWink Game Library".
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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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Ubisoft Paris Ubisoft Paris SASU (formerly Ubi Soft Paris SASU) is a French video game developer founded in 1986. It's also Ubisoft's headquarters. The studio is known for the "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon", "Raving Rabbids" and "Just Dance" video game series.