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2 unusual facts about video game publisher


Video game publisher

In the United States, revenue from the sales of video and computer games exceeded revenue from film box-office receipts for the first time in the dot-com days of the late 1990s, when technology companies in general were surrounded by hype.

At present, Electronic Arts is the only third-party publisher present in the S&P 500 diversified list of large U.S. corporations; in April 2010, it entered the Fortune 500 for the first time.


Artix Entertainment

(often abbreviated to AE) is an independent video game developer and publisher that creates browser-based role-playing games using the Flash and Unity engines, and has recently begun developing games for mobile platforms including iOS and Android.

Gamevil

Gamevil Inc. (trademarked in capitals as GAMEVIL) ((주)게임빌) is a public company based in Seoul, Republic of Korea, and Torrance, California, which develops and publishes video games for mobile devices.

Rising Star Games

Rising Star Games is a video game publisher formed in 2004 as a joint business venture between Scandinavian distributor Bergsala and Japanese video game publisher and content developer Intergrow.

SSX

It was developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts under their newly launched EA Sports Big brand, and was the first title released under that label, which specializes in extreme sports titles with an unrealistic or arcade feel and was widely regarded by critics as one of the standouts of the PlayStation 2's launch library.

The Cycles: International Grand Prix Racing

The Cycles: International Grand Prix Racing is a 1989 computer game developed by Distinctive Software and published by Accolade.


see also

Bill Grubb

Bill Grubb (William F.X. Grubb) is a businessman who was the co-founder of Imagic, which was at one time the second largest third party video game publisher in the United States.

Greg Fischbach

Gregory "Greg" Fischbach is best known for founding video game publisher Acclaim Entertainment in 1987 and was its CEO until its bankruptcy in 2004.

Imageworks

Image Works, a video game publisher in the late-1980s and early-1990s

Kevin Bermeister

In 1992, Bermeister and Mark Dyne successfully led a management buyout, together with Sega Enterprises, to form Sega Ozisoft Pty Limited representing exclusively the world's largest video game publisher.

The Casanovas

Born to Run was featured on the soundtrack of video game publisher EA Sports' title, Rugby 06, as well as being the main song for Melbourne based video game developers IR Gurus' title, AFL Premiership 2006, whilst Shake It was used in three Videogames: F1 2011 (Codemasters), WRC 4 (Evolution Studios) and This is Football 2005 (London Studio) .