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TinyCo
TinyCo is a mobile video game studio and the creator of '' Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff'', ''Futurama Worlds of Tomorrow'', ''Marvel Avengers Academy'', ''Guess!'', ''Spellstorm'', ''Tiny Castle'', ''Tiny Monsters'', ''Tiny Village'', and ''Tiny Zoo''. History The San Francisco studio was founded by Suli Ali and Ian Spivey in 2009. The company started as a Facebook game developer and switched to a mobile app focus in late 2010. They originally specialized in social video games such as ''Guess!'', ''Spellstorm'', ''Tiny Castle'', ''Tiny Monsters'', ''Tiny Village'', and ''Tiny Zoo''. In February 2011, the company raised $18 million in series A funding led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and including Anthony Casalena and SV Angel. Marc Andreessen joined Suli Ali on the company's board of directors as a part of this investment round. In May 2011, the company launched a $5 million investment fund, called the TinyFund, to help support development of mobile games. The T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jam City, Inc
Jam City, Inc. (formerly MindJolt and Social Gaming Network) is an American video game developer based in Culver City, California. The company was founded in 2010 by Chris DeWolfe, Colin Digiaro, Aber Whitcomb, and Josh Yguado. Jam City has nine studios located in the United States, Canada, South America, and Europe. As of 2021, it employs 825 people. Netmarble is the largest shareholder in Jam City. As of 2021, Jam City's games have 31 million monthly active users and 1.3 billion total downloads. History Jam City was founded by the Myspace co-founders Chris DeWolfe, Colin Digiaro and Aber Whitcomb, and former 20th Century Fox executive Josh Yguado. The company launched in 2010 when the co-founders raised from Austin Ventures for their business, then called Platform G. Platform G acquired MindJolt, a social gaming platform founded by Richard Fields, in March 2010 and took its name. Fields remained with the company to lead strategy. The new MindJolt acquired Social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Futurama Worlds Of Tomorrow
''Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow'' is a freemium mobile game for iOS and Android, based on the American animated series ''Futurama''. It was released on June 29, 2017 and features stories written by writers from the TV series with the show's original cast voicing their respective characters. Story After the Hypnotoad mesmerizes Professor Farnsworth into ordering the Planet Express crew to make a "delivery" to the amphibian homeworld Amphibios 9, the Hypnotoad tears through timespace to an alternate universe, bringing a female Hypnotoad to the current universe. This scatters the universe and all its inhabitants except for Fry and Nibbler. With the help of Nibbler, Fry must help put the universe back together and save his friends, particularly Leela, rebuilding New New York and bringing back key sought-out characters along the way. Gameplay ''Worlds of Tomorrow'' tasks the player with saving New New York and the characters within it from hypnowaves that have spread across ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Avengers Academy
''Marvel Avengers Academy'' was a freemium mobile game for iOS and Android, based on the characters featured in Marvel Comics. It was released on February 4, 2016. The game was shut down three years later. Despite the name, the game was not related to the comic series '' Avengers Academy''. Gameplay ''Marvel Avengers Academy'' tasked the player with building their own academic campus and populating it with superheroes who have been reimagined as students who are developing their superpowers. Many of the initial characters are voiced by well known celebrities, for example Iron Man voiced by Dave Franco, Wasp voiced by Alexandra Daddario and Alison Brie voicing Black Widow. The game presented the player with a portion of the campus, with more areas being unlocked as they progressed through the game. Characters wandered through the map with more characters able to be recruited by the completion of missions. Others could only be recruited via the use of Infinity Gems. Infinity Gems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Digital Entertainment
Fox Digital Entertainment was an American digital content, mobile applications, and video game developer and publisher owned by 20th Century Fox (later rebranded as 20th Century Studios). History Fox Digital Entertainment was formed in 2010 and took on many of the projects related to 21st Century Fox properties from Fox Interactive, 20th Century Fox Games (now known as 20th Century Games since 2022) and Fox Mobile Entertainment, when that was sold to the Jesta Group and was renamed Jesta Digital. Projects It was primarily involved with 20th Century Studios and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer properties such as ''Family Guy'', ''The Simpsons'', ''Ice Age'', ''James Bond'', ''Predator'', ''Rio'', ''Sons of Anarchy'', and ''X-Men''. They have been involved in applications such as ''FOX 4D'', ''Own The Moments'', ''Skyfall Gun Barrel'' and ''The Wolverine Second Screen''. They have also been involved in video games such as '' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'', '' Family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Andreessen
Marc Lowell Andreessen ( ; born July 9, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard. Andreessen is also a co-founder of Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. He sits on the board of directors of Meta Platforms. Andreessen was one of six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web in 1994. Early life and education Andreessen was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin.Simone Payment, ''Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark: The Founders of Netscape'', The Rosen Publishing Group, 2006, p. 15. . He is the son of Patricia and Lowell Andreessen, who worked for a seed company. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company. Two or more subsidiaries that either belong to the same parent company or having a same management being substantially controlled by same entity/group are called sister companies. The subsidiary can be a company (usually with limited liability) and may be a government- or state-owned enterprise. They are a common feature of modern business life, and most multinational corporations organize their operations in this way. Examples of holding companies are Berkshire Hathaway, Jefferies Financial Group, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, or Citigroup; as well as more focused companies such as IBM, Xerox, and Microsoft. These, and others, organize their businesses into national and functional subsidiaries, often with multiple levels of subsidiaries. Details Subsidiaries are separate, distinct legal entities f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinnacle Ventures
A pinnacle is an architectural element originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations. The pinnacle looks like a small spire. It was mainly used in Gothic architecture. The pinnacle had two purposes: # Ornamental – adding to the loftiness and verticity of the structure. They sometimes ended with statues, such as in Milan Cathedral. # Structural – the pinnacles were very heavy and often rectified with lead, in order to enable the flying buttresses to contain the stress of the structure vaults and roof. This was done by adding compressive stress (a result of the pinnacle weight) to the thrust vector and thus shifting it downwards rather than sideways. History The accounts of Jesus' temptations in Matthew's and Luke's gospels both suggest that the Second Temple in Jerusalem had one or more pinnacles ( gr, το πτερυγιον του ιερου): :Then he (Satan) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Layoffs
A layoff or downsizing is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees (collective layoff) for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing (reducing the size of) an organization. Originally, ''layoff'' referred exclusively to a temporary interruption in work, or employment but this has evolved to a permanent elimination of a position in both British and US English, requiring the addition of "temporary" to specify the original meaning of the word. A layoff is not to be confused with wrongful termination. ''Laid off workers'' or ''displaced workers'' are workers who have lost or left their jobs because their employer has closed or moved, there was insufficient work for them to do, or their position or shift was abolished (Borbely, 2011). Downsizing in a company is defined to involve the reduction of employees in a workforce. Downsizing in companies became a popular practice in the 1980s and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike O'Brien (game Developer)
Mike O'Brien is the former president and co-founder of ArenaNet and executive producer of its games ''Guild Wars'' and ''Guild Wars 2''. He led the design and content creation teams of the original ''Guild Wars''. Before co-founding ArenaNet, he worked as a company director and a lead programmer at Blizzard Entertainment where he developed the 3D rendering engine of ''Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'' and led the development of ''Battle.net''. He also worked on ''Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness'', ''Diablo (video game), Diablo'' and ''StarCraft'', where he, among other things, designed and created the MPQ (file format), MPQ archives used in all Blizzard games after Diablo. Mike O'Brien was featured as one of the most influential people in the video game industry on ''PC Gamer's'' September 1999 cover story ''"Game Gods"''. O'Brien also previously developed an Apple II emulator for Windows, AppleWin, and old DOS ASCII game, ''Pyro 2''. In early October 2019, through the official Guil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Video Games
This is a list of all video game lists on Wikipedia, sorted by varying classifications. By platform Acorn * List of Acorn Electron games Apple * List of Apple II games * List of Apple IIGS games * List of iOS games * List of Macintosh games Amstrad * List of Amstrad CPC games * List of Amstrad PCW games Atari * List of Atari 2600 games * List of Atari 5200 games * List of Atari 7800 games * List of Atari Jaguar games * List of Atari Jaguar CD games * List of Atari Lynx games * List of Atari ST games * List of Atari XEGS games Bandai * List of Bandai RX-78 games * List of Bandai Super Vision 8000 games * List of Design Master Senshi Mangajukuu games * List of Playdia games * List of Pippin games * List of Terebikko games * List of WonderSwan games * List of WonderSwan Color games Casio * List of Casio Loopy games * List of Casio PV-1000 games Commodore * List of Commodore PET games * List of Amiga games * List of Amiga CD32 games * List of Commodore 64 games * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Android (operating System)
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android is developed by a consortium of developers known as the Open Handset Alliance and commercially sponsored by Google. It was unveiled in November 2007, with the first commercial Android device, the HTC Dream, being launched in September 2008. Most versions of Android are proprietary. The core components are taken from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which is free and open-source software (FOSS) primarily licensed under the Apache License. When Android is installed on devices, the ability to modify the otherwise free and open-source software is usually restricted, either by not providing the corresponding source code or by preventing reinstallation through technical measures, thus rendering the installed version proprietary. Most Android devices ship with additional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worlds Of Tomorrow
''Worlds of Tomorrow'' is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by American writer August Derleth. It was first published by Pellegrini & Cudahy in 1953. Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines '' Worlds Beyond'', ''Fantastic'', ''Fantasy, The Magazine of Science Fiction'', '' Fantasy and Science Fiction'', '' If'', ''Fantastic Adventures'', ''Future'', ''Startling Stories'', ''Astounding Stories'', '' Weird Tales'', ''The Fantasy Fan'' and ''Thrilling Wonder Stories''. Abridged editions were published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1955, Berkley Books in 1958 and Four Square Books in 1963. Contents * Introduction, by August Derleth * "The Tinkler", by Poul Anderson * "The Smile", by Ray Bradbury * "The Fires Within", by Arthur C. Clarke * " Superiority", by Arthur C. Clarke * "McIlvaine's Star", by August Derleth * "Brothers Beyond the Void", by Paul W. Fairman * "Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful!", by Stuart Friedman * "The Dead Planet", by Edm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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