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Airtight Garage

The Airtight Garage was also the name of a bar and videogame parlor in the Metreon in San Francisco, featuring unique original games developed for the venue.

Alcatrazz

"God Blessed Video" appeared in the 2002 videogame soundtrack Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, playing on fictional rock station "V-Rock".

Angel Witch

In 2009 their eponymous song "Angel Witch" was featured on the soundtrack of the action-adventure videogame, Brütal Legend.

Angus McKie

This lasting influence is probably visible at its best, about twenty years later, in the visual look developed for the Homeworld videogame.

Anna Ternheim

The songs "Off the Road" and "Words of Love" also featured in the videogame Silent Hill: Downpour.

This song was featured in July 2010 on a new DLC episode, for the Xbox 360 videogame Alan Wake, entitled "The Signal".

Blood for a Silver Dollar

Some of Ferrio's remaining themes are also featured in the videogame Red Dead Revolver.

Brayden Olson

He is currently the CEO of Novel, Inc. a videogame and enterprise simulation developer in the Seattle-area.

Chevrolet El Camino

A 1970 model El Camino named "Brimstone" is the vehicle used by the character "Preacher" in the videogame Twisted Metal: Black.

Contra 4

The music and sound effects were handled by famed videogame music remixer Jake Kaufman, who also composed for Shantae and founded the game music remix site VGMix.

Cris Velasco

He also composed music for the videogame based on the original Battlestar Galactica series, Terminator 3: Redemption, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Anderson's Cross, Haze, Splinter Cell: Double Agent (main theme only), Clive Barker's Jericho and is credited with doing additional music for Van Helsing.

Droban-Apherna

Using the videogame Minecraft, they used each track as a chapter of a movie based on the 2012 phenomenon.

Firebombing

The Capcom videogame Dead Rising 2 contains a scenario where the dire outcome of the plot may lead to the fire bombing of the fictional city Fortune City, Nevada.

Fun Inc

Fun Inc is a book first published in January 2010 by Tom Chatfield, examining videogames in terms of their cultural status, potentials as a medium and as a business.

Galeazzo Maria Sforza

In the short film series, Assassin's Creed: Lineage (a live-action short film set in the Assassin's Creed videogame franchise), the Duke's assassination is depicted with some liberties, with the protagonist Giovanni Auditore arriving only in time to see Lampugnani stab Sforza in the abdomen.

Ghislain Barbe

In the videogames industry, apart from art directing console games (Teen Titans, Monster House, Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings), he designed some of the newer characters of the Carmen Sandiego franchise, such as Cole Gannon and the V.I.L.E. Bots for the videogame Carmen Sandiego: The Secret of the Stolen Drums.

Great Bay

Great Bay, a videogame location from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Gruppo di Intervento Speciale

The GIS members are present in the movies Sensenfukoku and Angels & Demons; in the videogame Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield and in the expansion Athena Sword.

Hiber Ruíz

Ruiz has the joint highest balance attribute of any player on the videogame FIFA 13.

Hidetaka Suehiro

His most notable directing role was on Deadly Premonition (named Red Seeds Profile in Japan) for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, which gained him attention from many videogame websites and magazines.

Hucho perryi

In the Nintendo GameCube videogame Animal Crossing and subsequent sequels, Hucho Perryi (under the name Stringfish) is a rare fish that can be caught in the river, and sold for 15,000 bells - one of only four fish that can be sold for that amount.

Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory

This character is a tongue-in-cheek reference to anti-videogame parental activism groups, and the name is a reference to Agnes Chan.

Joe Horn

This celebration was later used in the videogame Blitz: The League which allows excessive celebrations.

John Braden

Known best for his work on shows including Magnum, P.I., The A-Team, Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazzard, and The Fall Guy, he also supplied the voice for Senator Alfred Woden in the videogame series Max Payne, he often worked with producer Harry Thomason.

Julio G

He also appeared in the videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as a DJ on the in-game radio station: Radio Los Santos, as well as lending his talents to the 2006 motion picture Waist Deep.

Liar's dice

Liar's dice is also a playable subgame in the videogame Red Dead Redemption and the browser game TirNua.

Metrostop Entertainment

Metrostop Entertainment optioned a number of properties in a short space of time, including properties created by Bob Layton, David Michelinie and Dick Giordano of Future Comics, Helen Falconer's 1999 novel Primrose Hill and the THQ PlayStation 2 videogame franchise Red Faction 2.

Minoru Mukaiya

He joined the jazz fusion band Casiopea in 1979 as keyboardist and remained in group until their hiatus in 2006, but due to now having his own musical production team, Mukaiya Club, as well as being producer of the train simulator game, Train Simulator and CEO of Japanese Videogame Developer company Ongakukan which develops said game, he is no longer a member of Casiopea, now replaced by keyboardist Kiyomi Otaka.

New Killer America

The song 'What You Say' appeared in the videogame Project Gotham Racing.

Peter Stothard

Stothard appears as a character briefly in the first scene of a one-level Tomb Raider expansion videogame made by Core Design in association with The Times.

Piano Squall

In 2008, Gluck was employed by videogame publisher EA to create an orchestral arrangement of the Ultima Online main theme, which was featured in the official trailer entitled “Fall of Magincia”.

Roupa Nova

Since the 1980s, Roupa Nova has had many hits in Brazil, such as Sapato Velho (Old Shoe), Anjo (Angel), Whisky-a-Go-Go, Linda Demais (So Beautiful), Volta pra Mim (Come back to me), Coração Pirata (Pirate Heart) and Videogame.

Secret Machines

The song "Nowhere Again", from the their debut album, was used in promotional spots for American during its launch, and appeared in the 2006 videogame Driver: Parallel Lines.

Simon Gosling

Gosling is also a musician, appearing on the soundtrack of the PlayStation videogame Croc 2.

Steel Harbinger

Steel Harbinger is a videogame for the PlayStation game system, first released on September 30, 1996.

Takashi Tsukamoto

He also portrayed the character Shinji Mimura in the controversial film Battle Royale, along with this he has also portrayed the character Gion Toji in the videogame Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan! in both voice and likeness that was captured using facial scanning technology.

Taken by Force

"The Sails of Charon" was also used in the videogame Gran Turismo 5.

The Ambition of Oda Nobuna

Replacing the role of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, who had died from saving Yoshiharu's life, Yoshiharu swears to fulfill the dead man's dream of becoming a feudal lord and becoming popular with the ladies by using his knowledge from the videogame, Nobunaga's Ambition to foresee future events and help Nobuna in her quest to unite and conquer Japan.

The Little Kicks

In the videogame Guild Wars (2005-2007), the male elementalist "/dance" emote culminates in the "Little Kicks Dance".

Tom Arth

With a 32 overall rating, he was the lowest rated player in the 2004 NFL videogame, ESPN NFL 2K5.

Tony Guida

In 2005 Guida supplied the voice of the Newsreader in the Activision PC videogame The Movies.

Topp Stemning På Lokal Bar

The song "Fot i Hose" in this album is part of the soundtrack of the EA Sports 2010 hit-videogame, FIFA 10

Ty the Tasmanian Tiger Zoetrope

The Ty zoetrope is based on the cartoon character, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, the star of a videogame series from Krome Studios.

We're Only Gonna Die

It also appears on the soundtrack of the videogame, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.

Whale oil

Whale oil is used as an imporant energy source and researched for possible energy weapon use in the stealth action adventure videogame Dishonored.

Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles

Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles (or W&W) (Chinese 時空五行-風水大戰) is an Independent developed commercial videogame developed by Yuan Works, a company based in Costa Rica.


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