Computer Game Publisher

Red Orb Entertainment was a division of the Brøderbund software company created to market its gaming titles, distinguishing them from its considerable library of edutainment titles, which it marketed to schools. The name comes from the first six letters of "Broderbund," which when reversed yield "Red Orb." Red Orb Entertainment published several games in the late 1990s, including:

Brøderbund Software was an American maker of computer game, educational software and The Print Shop productivity tools. It was best known as the original creator and publisher of the popular Carmen Sandiego games. The company was founded in Eugene, Oregon, but moved to San Rafael, California, and later to Novato, California. Brøderbund was purchased by The Learning Company in 1998. Brøderbund scored an early hit with the game Galactic Empire, written by Doug Carlston for the TRS-80. The...

MicroProse, as a corporation and brand name, has been owned by several entities since its original founding by Sid Meier and Bill Stealey in 1982, as Microprose Software, Inc. Founded in 1982 by Bill Stealey and Sid Meier, Microprose Software, Inc was primarily known as a publisher of flight, military simulation, and strategy titles for home computer, with titles such as such as "Spitfire Ace", "Hellcat Ace", Railroad Tycoon, and Civilization. MicroProse Software Inc., in an attempt to...

Ariolasoft was a German computer game developer, publisher and distributor. They released approximately ten games for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Amiga systems, and also were notable for being the distributor for the Sega Master System in Germany between at least 1987 and 1988, but possibly longer. Ariolasoft was also the publisher for Electronic Arts and Brøderbund in Europe before those companies set up their own European offices. Apart from releasing these titles, Ariolasoft also...

Gathering of Developers (aka God Games and Gathering) was a Texas-based PC and video games publishing company, founded in January 1998 with the mission to bridge the gap between publishers and independent game developers. Fueled by past publishing experiences and frustrations, several experienced development companies bound together to form a relationship-based publisher. The company later became a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive. Gathering's first wave of releases included Railroad Tycoon...

Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) was a computer game developer and publisher with over 100 titles to its credit since its founding in 1979. It was especially notable for its numerous wargame, and for the groundbreaking Panzer General series. The company was founded by Joel Billings, a wargame enthusiast. He hired programmers John Lyons, who wrote Computer Bismarck, and Ed Williger, who wrote Computer Ambush. Both games were written in BASIC as were many of SSI's early games. Computer Bismarck...

Nintendo Company Ltd. (任天堂株式会社 Nintendō Kabushiki-kaisha; , , ) is a Japan multinational corporation founded on September 23 1889 in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. In the mid-twentieth century, the company tried several small niche businesses, such as a love hotel and a taxi company. Over time, it became a video game company, growing into one of the most powerful in the industry and Japan’s third most valuable listed company with a market value of more...

Activision, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher. It was the first independent developer and distributor of video game for gaming consoles, founded on October 1 1979. Its first products were cartridges for the Atari 2600 video console system, and it is now one of the largest third party video game publishers in the world, so far being the top publisher of 2007 in the U.S. On January 18 2008, Activision announced they were the top US publisher in 2007, according to the NPD...

Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Games, is an American computer game developer and publisher headquartered in Irvine, California. In December 2007 it was announced that Vivendi Games would merge with Activision, using Blizzard's name for the resulting company, Activision Blizzard. Blizzard Entertainment was founded by Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce as Silicon & Synapse in February of 1991, a year after all three had received their bachelor's degree from UCLA...