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Most popular american publishers of games. Mikołaj Klekotka kl. IIa

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Most popular american publishers of games.

Mikołaj Klekotka kl. IIa

Activison

Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher. It was founded on 1 October, 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). Activision is now one of the largest third party video game publishers in the world and was also the top publisher for 2007 in the United States. The company created such series of games as Tony Hawk's, Soldier of Fortune, Call of Duty and based on films: James Bond, Spider-Man, X-Men.

Blizzard

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA, Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce, and is currently a subsidiary of American company Activision Blizzard. Based in Irvine, California, the company originally concentrated primarily on the creation of game ports for other studios before beginning development of their own software in 1993 with the development of games like Rock n' Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings. In 1994 the company became Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. before being acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates and later by Vivendi. Shortly thereafter, Blizzard shipped their breakthrough hit Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. Blizzard went on to create several successful video games, including the Warcraft sequels, StarCraft, and Diablo series, and the MMORPG World of Warcraft. Their most recent projects include Diablo III, World of Warcraft's fifth expansion, Warlords of Draenor, and the first.

Electronic Arts (EA)

Electronic Arts the American producer and the publisher of computer games and the video. A company was established by Trip Hawkins in 1982. In the first half of 2011 the EA company was first as for the size with publisher of games on west markets, with annual sales reaching 4 billion of dollars. He is also an owner of the lorry of digital Origin distribution. In April 2012 The Consumerist service granted Electronic Arts the anti-award of the worst company in America. A dearness of games and edging them from the content, with the intention of more late spending DLC allowances contributed to it. The company again received this title in April 2013.

Id Software

Id Software - producer of FPP (First Person Perspective) games. Are well-known from Wolfenstein series, Doom and Quake. The company was formed in Mesquite in Texas in 1991. A company was established by the programmer of John Carmack, designers of games of John Romero and Tom Hall and the graphic designer Adrian Carmack.

founder of the corporation John Carmack

Microsoft Studios

Concern the Microsoft is well-known above all from next editions of Windows operating systems and office suites Office. However from 2001, when it on the market first Xbox made it debut, the Microsoft is also successfully acting on the market of stationary consoles. A Microsoft is one of leaders of the industry of new technologies. He is a supplier of products and services for consumers and corporate customers and commercial. A Microsoft isn't only a software house, but also a company responsible for consoles from the Xbox family. So far three devices of this type appeared - Xbox (premiere in November 2001), Xbox 360 (premiere in November 2005) and Xbox One (premiere in November 2013). They gave such series as Fable, Forza MotorSport, Gears of Strike, Halo and Dance Central.

Naughty Dog

Naughty Dog, Inc. American producer of video games with the registered office in Santa Monica in California established through Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin in 1984. In 2001 the studio was seized by the Sony Computer Entertainment and from now on all games are being written exclusively to consoles to PlayStation. They are as well-known for such games as Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter, Uncharted, and The last of Us.

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Rockstar Games

Rockstar Games Inc. is a multinational video game developer and publisher based in New York City, owned by Take-Two Interactive. The Rockstar Games label was founded in New York City in 1998 by the British video game producers Sam Houser, Dan Houser, Terry Donovan, Jaime King and Gary Foreman. The publisher is known for the Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, L.A. Noire, The Warriors, Bully, Manhunt, Midnight Club and Red Dead. As of February 2014, Rockstar Games titles have shipped more than 250 million copies, the largest franchise being the Grand Theft Auto. In March 2014, Rockstar Games received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award at the British Academy Video

Games Awards.  

Sucker Punch

Sucker Punch Productions Inc. is an American company that produces games for consoles. Founded in 1997 based in Bellevue, Washington. It is an individual company, but is working with Sony Computer Entertainment since 2000. First game created on 17 November 1999. which was only available for the Nintendo 64. The latest series of the company, Infamous for the PlayStation 4, heralded a move from level-based games portraying cel-shaded, anthropomorphic animals to a fully streaming sandbox game depicting more realistic-looking humans and protagonists with acrobatic abilities.

Valve Corporation

Valve Corporation (formerly Valve Software, commonly referred to as Valve) is an American video game development and digital, distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, United States. Its European-based office opened in 2012 in Luxembourg. Founded in 1996 by former Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, Valve developed critically acclaimed video game series Half-Life, Portal, and Left 4 Dead. It has also developed and maintains the Source engine for which most of its games run on, and the software distribution platform Steam, which has led to the Steam Machine, a line of pre-built gaming computers running SteamOS.

Gabe Newell

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