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Rockstar Dundee Limited (formerly Ruffian Games Limited) is a British video game developer and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Dundee. The studio is best known for developing '' Crackdown 2''. Gary Liddon, Billy Thomson, and Gareth Noyce founded the company as Ruffian Games in April 2008. They had previously worked on '' Crackdown'', with Thompson as its lead designer while at Realtime Worlds. Ruffian Games immediately partnered with Microsoft for ''Crackdown 2'', being chosen over Realtime Worlds. Released in 2010, the game did not sell well enough to allow for a third ''Crackdown'' game and Ruffian Games joined co-development projects, including several Kinect games, to stay afloat. ''Game of Glens'' and ''Hollowpoint'' were cancelled, while a ''Streets of Rage'' remake was unsuccessfully pitched. After independently releasing ''Fragmental'' and ''RADtv'', the studio was working with Rockstar Games by October 2019. The publisher's parent company, Take-Two Interactive, acq ...
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Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company is a company (law), company completely or partially owned or controlled by another company, called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the subsidiary company. Unlike regional branches or divisions, subsidiaries are considered to be distinct entities from their parent companies; they are required to follow the laws of where they are incorporated, and they maintain their own executive leadership. Two or more subsidiaries primarily controlled by same entity/group are considered to be sister companies of each other. Subsidiaries are a common feature of modern business, and most multinational corporations organize their operations via the creation and purchase of subsidiary companies. Examples of holding companies are Berkshire Hathaway, Jefferies Financial Group, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Citigroup, which have subsidiaries involved in many different Industry (e ...
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Studio Head
Studio manager, studio director, or studio head is a job title in various media-related professions, including design, advertising, and broadcasting. Design and advertising A design or advertising studio manager's responsibilities will typically include traffic management, by ensuring all briefs are dispatched in the studio according to a designer's skills and strengths and ensure all work is delivered promptly and to deadline to the relevant people. A design studio manager should have excellent organizational and communication skills and motivate their team by showing good leadership. The Manager should have a great understanding of how to both achieve and develop project briefs to achieve clients needs and successful design. The following are a studio manager's responsibilities: * Workload dispatch * Compiling studio schedules for senior management meetings * Compiling Road map for projects * Constant update of Studio schedules * Project quality control and assessment * Proje ...
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Son Of Rome
''Ryse: Son of Rome'' is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Crytek and published by Microsoft Studios. Set in an alternate version of Ancient Rome, ''Ryse'' follows the life of the Roman centurion Marius Titus as he becomes one of the leaders in the Roman Legion. Gameplay revolves around Marius using his sword to strike enemies and shield to deflect attacks. Execution sequences are featured in the game, which are quick-time events that serve as an extension to combat. The game features a co-operative gameplay, cooperative multiplayer mode, which tasks players to fight against waves of enemies in maps that are changing dynamically. The game's development began in 2006. Originally it was set to be a first-person perspective, first-person Kinect-only title for the Xbox 360. However, the developer gradually redesigned the game to become a Third-person (video games), third-person hack and slash game, with Kinect serving a diminished role. The development of the game was origi ...
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