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-Emergent-
Offices: Calabasas, California; Chapel Hill, North Carolina & Austin,
Texas
Emergent Game Technologies is a leading source for all the game development
tools required to build, test, manage and expand interactive games. Emergent
was founded in 2000 with a mission of developing tools and technologies
for interactive entertainment. In August of 2005, Emergent merged with NDL,
the company that created the Gamebryo game development engine and tools.
Gamebryo enjoys widespread adoption among game developers and is the engine
game designers trust. Gamebryo has been integral to the creation of instant
classics.
Offices: Raleigh, North Carolina
Epic Games established in 1991, is a developer of cutting-edge computer
and video games. The company is best known as the creator of hit PC 3D action
games Unreal and Unreal Tournament, both award-winning blockbuster hits
having each sold more than one million copies. Epic is also responsible
for the Unreal Engine, which is the underlying technology for a wide range
of games including, 2002 Console Game of the Year winner, Tom Clancy's Splinter
Cell ™, Deus Ex, America's Army: Special Forces, and Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone.-Fathammer-
Offices: Helsinki, Finland
Over six years of intense Fun-Fu training at Fathammer has made their team
pretty good at it. They have fun by making fun of each other, but delivering
fun is their speciality. Their fungineers have developed their technology
to the level where They don't draw a line between mobile games and other
games. They are out here to deliver the same game no matter what the gadget
or box you play their game on.
Offices: Hunt Valley, Maryland
Firaxis Games, home of legendary game designer Sid Meier and their just-released
hit PC game, Sid Meier's Civilization IV. Firaxis was founded in 1996 by
Jeff Briggs, with Jeff taking the role as Company President and CEO and
Sid Meier as Director of Creative Development—continuing a creative partnership
that began at MicroProse Software in 1990. In the nine short years since
its founding, Firaxis has released eleven blockbuster computer game titles
which have sold millions of copies and garnered dozens of top industry awards.
Offices: San Francisco, California
Flagship Studios is a creator of innovative entertainment software, designing
games that focus on ease of play, replayablility and fun. The studio was
formed in 2003 by former executives and developers from Blizzard North®
and represents the creators of the worldwide, best-selling Diablo® franchise.
With members that are renowned within the gaming industry, Flagship Studios
embodies a team that has worked together for over a decade and have numerous
#1-selling games and multiple Game of the Year awards to their credit.-Foundation-
Offices: Irvine, California
Foundation 9 Entertainment is a premier developer of interactive entertainment
products and properties, from licensed titles to original IP’s. The company
is one of the largest independent game developers in the world. With divisions
founded as early as 1992, Foundation 9 Entertainment has become a development
powerhouse through a number of strategic mergers and acquisitions. With
experience working with some of the most revered properties in entertainment,
including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Pac-Man, the
company is positioned to maximize the value of entertainment properties
across all entertainment genres.
Offices: Nottingham, England
After leaving developer Rare in February 1999, former GoldenEye and Perfect
Dark team members Dr. David Doak, Steve Ellis, Karl Hilton and Graeme Norgate
began trading as independent developer Free Radical Design a mere two months
later. With a team of only eighteen, Free Radical shipped and delivered
the 1st person shooter TimeSplitters to Eidos for the PS2 launch in October
2000. Despite the time constraints and pressures of building the company
and its technology from scratch, they were the only European developer to
hit the launch date without any delays.
Offices: Helsinki, Finland
Frozenbyte is an independent game developer, founded in 2001, the company
has now grown to a professional team of almost 20 people. The highly-anticipated
Shadowgrounds for the PC is Frozenbyte's first commercial game and has received
much critical acclaim all over the world. The team is already working on
new game projects that will be unleashed in 2007. Frozenbyte is out to show
the world that dedication, hard work and innovation can still deliver inspiring
games.
Offices: Zürich, Switzerland; Oslo, Norway; Durham, North Carolina &
Beijing, China
Funcom is a world leading independent developer and publisher of computer
and console games with a focus on Action Adventure and Massively Multiplayer
Online Games. Since 1993 Funcom has provided the globe with outstanding
entertainment and continues to expand its track-record of 23 released games
to date. Recent successes include the multi-award winning The Longest Journey,
the award winning and critically acclaimed Anarchy Online, and Shadowlands.
Funcom is currently developing four games internally, including Dreamfall-The
Longest Journey, Anarchy Online-Lost Eden, Age of Conan: Hyborian adventures.
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