Instituions

Rockstar games:

Background: Rockstar games are a multinational videogame developer and publisher situated in New York.

Founded: In 1998

Owner/Founder: Founded by the British producers Sam and Dan Houser and is owned by Take-Two interactive.

Most successful games: Grand Theft Auto and Midnight Club as well as their open world free roaming settings in there games. A couple of more successful games are: Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, L.A. Noire, The Warriors, Bully, Manhunt, Midnight Club, State of Emergency, and Red Dead.

Institutions:

·         The largest permit being the Grand Theft Auto series which was one of the most popular games to be sold and have had batches of at least 157.5 million alone.

·         Rockstar Games received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award at the British Academy Video Games Awards in March 2014.

EA (Electronic Arts)

Background:  Electrician Arts are an American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games situated in California. It was formed in 1982 on May 28^th.

Owner/founder:  Founded by Trip Hawkins

Most successful games: Madden NFL, FIFA, NHL, NCAA Football, NBA Live, and SSX.

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·         In 2011 Electronic Arts was the world's third-largest gaming company by revenue after Nintendo and Activision Blizzard.

·         EA announced that it had exceeded $1 billion in digital revenue during the previous calendar year

Zynga:

Background: Zyna games are a provider of social games and develop social games that work on mobile phone platforms such as the Apple IOS. The headquarters are situated in California, USA in San Francisco.

Owner/founder: It was founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus

Most successful games:  One of their most successful games was The Farmville series.

Institutions: Zynga games had over 265 million monthly active users and three of the top five Facebook games.

Nintendo:

Background: Nintendo is a Japanese multinational consumer Electronics Company based in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded in 1989 on September 23^rd.

Owner/founder: The founder of Nintendo was Fusajiro Yamauchi

Most successful game: One of the most successful games was Mario Bros

Institutions:  Nintendo has sold over 669.36 million hardware units and 4.20 billion software units

Sony Computer Entertainment

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Sony Computer Entertainment:

Background:  Sony Computer Entertainment is a Japanese multinational video game company specializing in a variety of areas in the video game industry. It was founded in 1993 on November 16^th and is situated in Japan Tokyo.

Owner/founder:  Nintendo is owned by Andrew House

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