Matrix Games is a publisher of PC games, specifically strategy games and

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s. It is based in Ohio, US, and Surrey, UK. Their focus is primarily but not exclusively on wargames and turn-based strategy. The product line-up also includes space sims ('' Starshatter: The Gathering Storm''),

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management sims ('' Maximum-Football''), and

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titles ('' Close Combat: Cross of Iron''). Matrix Games publishes games from a variety of developers, including SSG, 2by3 Games, Panther Games, Koios Works, Destroyer Studios, Western-Civilization and AGEOD.

History

Matrix Games was founded by David Heath, Erik Rutins, Patty Rutins and Paul Vebber in 1999 in

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, New York City. As of January 2010, Matrix Games has published over 75 titles. Matrix has in-house artists, programmers, and producers which all take active roles in projects of smaller wargame developers who lack the resources to hire full-time staff otherwise. In May 2010, Matrix Games and Slitherine announced a merger of the two companies making it the largest wargaming specialist publisher. Matrix Games also publishes wargames for the US defense industry.

Awards

Awards won for Matrix Games products include: *PC Gamers Editors' Choice Award 93% for Korsun Pocket November 2003 *Computer Games Magazine – Top 10 of 2005 for Star Chamber *Computer Gaming World – Wargame of the Year for Korsun Pocket 2003 *Computer Gaming World – Wargame of the Year for Battles in Normandy 2004 *32nd Annual Origins Awards 2006 Vanguard Award for World At War *32nd Annual Origins Awards 2006 Lock n' Load Band of Heroes *Charles S. Roberts Award 2007 for Guns of August *Charles S. Roberts Award 2007 for Empires in Arms

Games

* ''Advanced Tactics'' * '' Armada 2526'' * '' Armored Brigade'' * ''Banzai!: For Pacific Fighters'' * '' Battlefront'' * ''Battlegrounds: American Civil War'' * ''Battlegrounds: Napoleonic Wars'' * '' Birth of America'' * ''Blitzkrieg: War in Europe 1939–1945'' * ''Campaign Series: Matrix Edition'' * ''Campaigns on the Danube 1805/1809'' * '' Carriers at War'' * ''Case Blue: For IL-2 or Forgotten Battles'' * '' Chariots of War'' * '' Close Combat: Cross of Iron'' * '' Close Combat: Modern Tactics'' * '' Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein'' * '' Close Combat: The Longest Day'' * ''Combined Arms: World War II'' * '' Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge'' * ''Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations'' * '' Commander: Europe at War Gold'' * '' Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear!'' * ''Conquest! Medieval Realms'' * ''Conquest of the Aegean'' * ''Crown of Glory: Emperor's Edition'' * ''Decisive Battles of WWII: Battles in Italy'' * '' Decisive Battles of WWII: Battles in Normandy'' * '' Decisive Battles of WWII: Korsun Pocket'' * '' Decisive Battles of WWII: Korsun Pocket - Across the Dnepr'' * ''Decisive Campaigns: The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris'' * '' Distant Worlds'' * '' Empires in Arms: The Napoleonic Wars of 1805–1815'' * '' Field of Glory'' series * ''Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm'' * '' Flashpoint Germany'' * ''For Liberty!'' * '' Forge of Freedom: The American Civil War 1861–1865'' * ''Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich'' * ''Gary Grigsby's War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941–1945'' * ''Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2'' * ''Gary Grigsby's War in the West'' * '' Gary Grigsby's World at War'' * '' Gates of Troy'' * ''Guns of August: World War I 1914-1918'' * ''Hannibal: Rome and Carthage in the Second Punic War'' (designed by Forced March Games) * '' Harpoon 3: Advanced Naval Warfare'' * '' Highway to the Reich'' * '' Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge'' * ''Horse and Musket: Volume 1'' * ''The Last Days: For IL-2 Forgotten Battles'' * '' Legion Arena Gold'' * ''Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes'' * ''Mark H. Walker's Lock 'n Load: Heroes of Stalingrad'' * '' Massive Assault'' * '' Maximum-Football'' * '' Norm Koger's The Operational Art of War III'' * '' Officers: The Matrix Edition'' * '' Operation Barbarossa – The Struggle for Russia'' * '' Pacific War: Matrix Edition'' * '' Panzer Command: Operation Winter Storm'' * '' Panzer Command: Kharkov'' * '' Panzer Command: Ostfront'' * '' Panzer Corps: Wehrmacht'' * '' PureSim Baseball 2007'' * '' Reach for the Stars'' * ''Scourge of War: Gettysburg'' * ''Scourge of War: Antietam'' * ''Scourge of War: Pipe Creek'' * ''Scourge of War: Chancellorsville'' * ''Scourge of War: Brandy Station'' * '' Shadow Empire'' * ''Smugglers IV – Doomsday'' * '' Spartan'' * '' Star Chamber: The Harbinger Saga'' * '' Starshatter: The Gathering Storm'' * '' Starships Unlimited – Divided Galaxies'' * '' Starships Unlimited v3'' * '' Steel Panthers: World at War – Generals Edition'' * ''Storm Over the Pacific'' * '' Strategic Command WWII Global Conflict'' * '' Strategic Command Classic: WWI'' * '' Strategic Command Classic: WWII'' * '' Strategic Command: World War I'' * '' Strategic Command WWII: Community Pack - DLC'' * '' Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe'' * '' Strategic Command WWII: World at War'' * ''Supremacy: Four Paths To Power'' * ''Team Assault: Baptism of Fire'' * ''Time of Fury'' * ''Tin Soldiers: Alexander the Great'' * ''Tin Soldiers: Julius Caesar'' * ''Titans of Steel: Warring Suns'' * '' UFO: Extraterrestrials'' * '' Uncommon Valor: Campaign for the South Pacific'' * '' War in Russia: Matrix Edition'' * ''

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'' * '' War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition'' * ''WarPlan'' * ''WarPlan Pacific'' * ''War Plan Orange: Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1922–1930'' * '' World in Flames'' * ''World War One: La Grande Guerra'' * ''World War One Gold'' * ''World War II: General Commander'' * '' WWII Online: Battleground Europe'' * ''World War 2: Time of Wrath''

References

External links

* * {{Matrix Games Video game companies established in 1999 Video game companies of the United Kingdom Video game companies of the United States Video game publishers 1999 establishments in England