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Pi Studios
Pi Studios was a video game developer 2002 in video gaming, founded in 2002 by Robert Erwin, John Faulkenbury, Rob Heironimus, Dan Kramer and Peter Mack whose first commercial work can be found in Activision's ''Call of Duty: United Offensive''. The company originated in Plano, Texas and relocated to Houston, Houston, Texas in January, 2005. In November, 2005, Pi Studios released ''Call of Duty 2: Big Red One'' for the PlayStation 2, the Xbox (console), Xbox, and the GameCube. Work on that project was done jointly with Activision's internal studio, Treyarch. This led to work on ''Call of Duty 3'' in October 2006, developed jointly with Treyarch. Pi's work on the Call of Duty franchise continued with the ''Call of Duty 3 Bravo Map Pack'' (downloadable via Xbox Live Arcade) followed by ''Call of Duty: World at War'', in which they assisted Treyarch in creating the single player mission "Blowtorch and Corkscrew". Pi Studios helped develop the ''Halo 2 Vista'' editing toolset an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |