Mass Media Games
Mass Media, Inc. is an American independent game developer located in Moorpark, California. The current focus of the company is to develop original material for the Sony platforms.
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.[1] 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.[2] 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.
| Game title | U.S. release date | Platform |
|---|
| Defender of the Crown | 1986 | CD-i |
| Tetris | 1986 | CD-i |
| Lords of the Rising Sun | 1989 | CD-i |
| Girls Club | 1992 | CD-i |
| Zombie Dinos | 1992 | CD-i |
| Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces | 1992 | CD-i |
| Mystic Midway Phantom Express | 1993 | CD-i |
| Caesars World of Boxing | 1993 | CD-i |
| Voyeur | 1993 | CD-i |
| NFL Hall of Fame | 1994 | CD-i |
| Thunder in Paradise | 1995 | CD-i |
| 3-D Table Sports | 1996 | PC |
| The Game of Life | 1998 | PC |
| BassMasters 2000 | 1999 | Nintendo 64 |
| StarCraft 64 | June 13, 2000 | Nintendo 64 |
| Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness | September 8, 2000 | Nintendo 64, Dreamcast |
| Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue | June 1, 2000 | Nintendo 64 |
| Namco Museum | July 12, 2001 | Game Boy Advance |
| Pac-Man Collection | July 12, 2001 | Game Boy Advance |
| Star Trek DS9: Dominion Wars | 2001 | PC |
| Pac-Man Fever | September 22, 2002 | GameCube, PlayStation 2 |
| Namco Museum | September 22, 2002 | GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Dreamcast |
| Shrek Super Party | November 16, 2002 | GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox |
| BlackThorne | 2003 | Game Boy Advance |
| Rock 'N Roll Racing | 2003 | Game Boy Advance |
| The Lost Vikings | 2003 | Game Boy Advance |
| Muppets Party Cruise | November 11, 2003 (GC)
November 13, 2003 (PS2) | GameCube, PlayStation 2 |
| Metal Arms: Glitch in the System | November 18, 2003 | PlayStation 2 |
| Nicktoons Movin' | 2004 | PlayStation 2 |
| Namco Vintage | November 4, 2004 | Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox |
| The Bible Game | October 23, 2005 | PlayStation 2, Xbox |
| Full Spectrum Warrior | March 23, 2005 | PlayStation 2 |
| Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers | March 27, 2006 | PlayStation 2 |
| Tetris Evolution | 2007 | Xbox 360 |
| Stuntman: Ignition (assisting Paradigm Entertainment with PS3 version) | September 17, 2007 | PlayStation 3 |
| Saints Row 2 (assisting Volition, Inc. with PS3 version) | October 14, 2008 | PlayStation 3 |
| Darksiders (assisting Vigil Games with PS3 version) | January 5, 2010 | PlayStation 3 |
| The Midway | July 1, 2010 | PlayStation Home via PlayStation 3 |
| The Midway 2 | December 9, 2010 | PlayStation Home via PlayStation 3 |
| Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (assisting Relic Entertainment with PS3 version) | September 6, 2011 | PlayStation 3 |
| Jak and Daxter Collection (Trilogy in EU) | February 7, 2012 | PlayStation 3 |
| The Midway 3 | May 16, 2012 | PlayStation Home via PlayStation 3 |
| Jak and Daxter Collection (Trilogy in EU) | June 18, 2013 | PlayStation Vita |
| Ratchet & Clank Collection (Trilogy in EU) | July 2, 2014 | PlayStation Vita |
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