Mass Media (company) explained
Mass Media, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Moorpark, California.
In 2018, Mass Media was acquired by 2K Games.[1]
History
Mass Media began in the 1980s at Cinemaware. In 1991, they formed a production unit called Philips P.O.V. Entertainment Group. Mass Media left Philips in 1995 and the company became an exclusive developer for Time Warner Interactive. After Time Warner halted their interactive division, Mass Media became an independent developer. It was acquired by THQ in February 2007 who closed the studio in November 2008.[2] The company started back up immediately, focusing on developing for the Sony platforms, including the PlayStation 3. On the PlayStation 3, they developed content and spaces for its social gaming network PlayStation Home including the games The Midway, The Midway 2, and The Midway 3 which were three game spaces with ten mini-games in each with ten rewards per mini-game. The Green Ticket, used to play the games in the three Midways, was consistently the best selling item in PS Home.[3] Mass Media has also continued to develop game engine technology for PlayStation 3 and other platforms. Notably this includes one of the first non-Sony PlayStation 3 implementations of fully SPU based GPU rendering command generation, significantly reducing rendering overhead on the main CPU (used in Saints Row 2 and subsequent PS3 titles).
Games
Mass Media has developed over forty titles and currently has additional titles in various stages of development. All of their titles were developed with their development tool set called BOLT.
!Year!Title!Platform(s)| 1992 | Defender of the Crown | CD-i |
| Girl's Club |
| Lords of the Rising Sun |
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| Tetris |
| Zombie Dinos from Planet Zeltoid |
| 1993 | Caesars World of Boxing |
| Mystic Midway: Phantom Express | CD-i, DOS |
| Voyeur | CD-i |
| 1994 | | DOS |
| NFL Hall of Fame Football | CD-i |
| Voyeur | DOS |
| 1995 | Thunder in Paradise Interactive | CD-i, DOS |
| 1996 | 3-D TableSports | DOS |
| 1998 | The Game of Life | Windows, PlayStation |
| 1999 | BassMasters 2000 | Nintendo 64 |
| Namco Museum 64 |
| 2000 | Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness | Dreamcast, Nintendo 64 |
| Namco Museum | Dreamcast |
| Saban's Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue | Nintendo 64 |
| StarCraft 64 |
| 2001 | Namco Museum | Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2 |
| Pac-Man Collection | Game Boy Advance |
| 2002 | Namco Museum | GameCube, Xbox |
| Pac-Man Fever | GameCube, PlayStation 2 |
| Shrek: Super Party | PlayStation 2, Xbox |
| 2003 | Blackthorne | Game Boy Advance |
| Jim Henson's Muppets Party Cruise | GameCube, PlayStation 2 |
| Rock n' Roll Racing | Game Boy Advance |
| Shrek: Super Party | GameCube |
| The Lost Vikings | Game Boy Advance |
| 2004 | Nicktoons Movin' | PlayStation 2 |
| 2005 | Full Spectrum Warrior |
| The Bible Game | PlayStation 2, Xbox |
| 2006 | | PlayStation 2 |
| 2007 | Tetris Evolution | Xbox 360 |
| 2008 | Saints Row 2 | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |
| 2009 | Marvel Super Hero Squad | PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable |
| Saints Row 2 | Windows |
| 2010 | Darksiders | Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |
| The Midway | PlayStation Home |
| The Midway 2 |
| 2011 | | Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |
| 2012 | Jak and Daxter Collection | PlayStation 3 |
| The Midway 3 | PlayStation Home |
| 2013 | Jak and Daxter Collection | PlayStation Vita |
| 2014 | Ratchet & Clank Collection |
| 2015 | Evolve | Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
| 2016 | Mafia III |
| 2017 | | PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
| 2018 | Carnival Games | Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
| 2022 | New Tales from the Borderlands | Nintendo Switch | |
External links
Notes and References
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/mass-media
- Web site: Mass Media, Inc.. MobyGames. 2009-10-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20090328123210/http://www.mobygames.com/company/mass-media-inc. 2009-03-28. live.
- Web site: Top Ten PS3 Items. Gamer Indepth. 2011-02-07.
