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UEFA Dream Soccer
''UEFA Dream Soccer'' is a football video game developed by Silicon Dreams and published by Sega for the Dreamcast in 2000. Gameplay The game offers several game modes - Global Domination, Survival, Time Attack, Gender Challenge, Team Challenge, Versus and several leagues and tournaments - and features commentary from Alan Green and Barry Venison and pre-match introductions from Helen Chamberlain. Female players are included for all national teams and players can pit male players against female players in the Gender Challenge mode. Development The title was originally envisaged as another entry in the '' Sega Worldwide Soccer'' series but was renamed due to a publishing agreement between Sega and Infogrames, the latter of which having already published ''UEFA Striker'' for the Dreamcast''.'' The developers claimed to have captured 20,000 motions during development and used 2,500 polygons per player. It was among the first video games to feature playable female teams, rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silicon Dreams Studio
Silicon Dreams Studio Limited was a British video game developer based in Adderbury, England. History Silicon Dreams Studio was founded by Geoff Brown in March 1994 as the in-house development team for video game publisher U.S. Gold, also founded by Brown, and became part of the CentreGold umbrella. In April 1996, the entirety of CentreGold (including Silicon Dreams) was acquired by Eidos Interactive for . However, in December 1996, Brown re-acquired a 75% share in the Silicon Dreams label for at least , and merged it into a new, legally incorporated entity, Silicon Dreams Studio, which became a subsidiary of Geoff Brown Holdings (later renamed Kaboom Studios). In August 2003, Kaboom Studios, facing financial difficulties, closed down sister studio, Attention to Detail, which led media to expect similar to happen to Silicon Dreams Studio. Silicon Dreams Studio entered liquidation on 3 September 2003, laying off all of its 55 employees and cancelling the in-development ''Ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infogrames
Atari SA (formerly Infogrames Entertainment SA) is a French video game holding company headquartered in Paris. Its subsidiaries include Atari Interactive and Atari, Inc. It is the current owner of the Atari brand through Atari Interactive. Because of continuing pressures upon the company and difficulty finding investors, it sought bankruptcy protection under French law in January 2013; its subsidiaries in the United States have sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as well. All three subsidiaries have since exited bankruptcy. History Early history (1983–1996) The founders wanted to christen the company ''Zboub Système'' (which can be approximately translated to ''Dick System'' in English), but were dissuaded by their legal counsel. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silicon Dreams Studio Games
Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic luster, and is a Tetravalence, tetravalent metalloid and semiconductor. It is a member of carbon group, group 14 in the periodic table: carbon is above it; and germanium, tin, lead, and flerovium are below it. It is relatively unreactive. Because of its high chemical affinity for oxygen, it was not until 1823 that Jöns Jakob Berzelius was first able to prepare it and characterize it in pure form. Its oxides form a family of anions known as silicates. Its melting and boiling points of 1414 °C and 3265 °C, respectively, are the second highest among all the metalloids and nonmetals, being surpassed only by boron. Silicon is the eighth Abundance of the chemical elements, most common element in the universe by mass, but very rarely occurs as the pure element in the Earth's crust. It is widely distributed in space in cosmic dusts, plan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sega Video Games
is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Its international branches, Sega of America and Sega Europe, are headquartered in Irvine, California and London, respectively. Its division for the development of both arcade games and home video games, Sega Games, has existed in its current state since 2020; from 2015 to that point, the two had made up separate entities known as Sega Games and Sega Interactive Co., Ltd. Sega is a subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings. From 1983 until 2001, Sega also developed video game consoles. Sega was founded by American businessmen Martin Bromley and Richard Stewart as on June 3, 1960; shortly after, the company acquired the assets of its predecessor, Service Games of Japan. Five years later, the company became known as Sega Enterprises, Ltd., after acquiring Rosen Enterprises, an importer of coin-operated games. Sega developed its first coin-operated game, ''Periscope'', in 1966. Sega w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreamcast Games
The is a home video game console developed and sold by Sega. The first of the sixth generation of video game consoles, it was released in Japan on November 27, 1998, in North America on September 9, 1999, and in Europe on October 14, 1999. The fifth and final home console produced by Sega, the Dreamcast is the successor to the Sega Saturn, whose commercial failure prompted the company to release it only four years after its predecessor's initial release. All licensed games for the Dreamcast were released on the GD-ROM format, a proprietary CD-based optical disc format jointly developed by Sega and Yamaha Corporation that was capable of storing up to 1 GB of data. The Dreamcast itself features regional lockout, only playing games released within its predetermined region; however, the lockout is circumventable via modchip installation, boot discs, or cheat discs such as Datel's Action Replay. However, the aforementioned circumventions will only work on a MIL-CD compatible conso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football Video Games
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Kill Screen
''Kill Screen'' (stylized as ''KILL SCREEN'') was a print and online magazine founded in 2009 by Jamin Warren and Chris Dahlen and owned by Kill Screen Media, Inc. It focused on video games and culture, but also included articles based on entertainment. The name is based on the video game term of the same name. In 2009, both Warren and Dahlen were former writers for ''Pitchfork'' when they decided to found the magazine. After a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the magazine, the first issue was released in March 2010. After partnerships with ''Pitchfork'', StoryCode and Film Society of Lincoln Center, the magazine eventually founded an annual video game conference, two5six, in 2013. The magazine's website did a redesign in January 2014 and the print magazine itself was redesigned and overhauled after a second successful Kickstarter campaign in November 2015. In 2016, two5six's name was changed to Kill Screen Festival. After 2016, Kill Screen ceased publication, and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mia Hamm Soccer 64
''Michael Owen's WLS 2000'' is an association football video game developed by Silicon Dreams Studio and published by THQ for the Nintendo 64. Released on 10 November 2000, the game stars English footballer Michael Owen. ''Michael Owen's WLS 2000'' has received reskinned versions for releases outside the United Kingdom, primarily ''Mia Hamm Soccer 64'', which stars Mia Hamm and was released in North America by SouthPeak Interactive. Development ''Michael Owen's WLS 2000'' was originally announced by Eidos Interactive in September 1998, as a Nintendo 64 conversion of Silicon Dreams Studio's previous ''World League Soccer'' game, ''Michael Owen's World League Soccer '99''. However, it was put on hold as Eidos Interactive did not find itself suitable for the Nintendo 64 market, until it was announced, in August 1999, that THQ had picked up the game for further production. It was reported that Owen received £300,000 to perform motion-capture and lend his image for the title. ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paragon Publishing
Paragon Publishing Ltd (or Paragon for short) was a magazine publisher in the UK, which published computer games and other entertainment titles from 1991 to 2003. Brief history Paragon Publishing Ltd was formed in a small office in Trowbridge, Wiltshire by ex-Future Publishing staff Richard Monteiro and Diane Tavener. With a small team of staff they began work on their first publication ''Sega Pro''. With the success of ''Sega Pro'' the company began expanding and launched several other titles, hiring more staff to produce these new titles. It was not long before the company moved into new premises in Bournemouth. The company continued to publish magazines for the video games market as well as other areas for the next decade. In July 2003 Paragon Publishing and its 30-odd magazine titles were sold to Highbury House Communications for £32m. Imagine Publishing, which was formed by ex-Paragon staff Damian Butt, Steve Boyd and Mark Kendrick, would buy back most of these titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
