Company:Destineer
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Short description: American umbrella company
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Video games |
| Fate | Dissolved |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Founder | Peter Tamte |
| Defunct | May 2011 |
| Headquarters | Minnetonka, Minnesota , U.S. |
Area served | North America |
Key people | Paul Rinde (CEO) |
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| Website | destineergames |
Destineer, Inc. was an American umbrella company covering a holding company, a video game publisher, and video game developer based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. The company was founded by Peter Tamte, former executive vice-president of Bungie, in 2001. It developed some original titles and also ported games from Windows to Macs under a number of different brands, including MacSoft and Bold Games.[1][2]
In May 2011, the company silently shut down, together with all of its divisions and subsidiaries.
Subsidiaries
- MacSoft: On January 30, 2003, Infogrames Inc. announced it had sold MacSoft to Destineer, Inc.[3]
- Atomic Games, Inc.: On May 6, 2005, Destineer announced acquisition of Atomic Games, Inc.[4]
- Bold Games: A publishing label for Microsoft video games ported to Mac OS. The brand stopped publishing Mac OS games following MacSoft's acquisition.[5]
Published games
- Age of Empires II
- Age of Empires III
- Cate West
- Close Combat
- Fullmetal Alchemist Trading Card Game
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Giana Sisters DS
- Homie Rollerz
- Indianapolis 500 Legends
- Iron Chef America
- John Deere
- Links Championship Edition
- Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ
- Master of Orion III
- Neverwinter Nights
- Rec Room Games
- Red Orchestra
- Samurai Deeper Kyo
- Starship Troopers
- Stoked
- Summer Sports
- Sword of the Stars
- Taito Legends
- Taito Legends 2
- Taito Legends Power-Up
- Tropico
- Unreal Tournament 2003
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Wings Over Europe
- Wings Over Vietnam
- WordJong DS
- WWII Aces
References
- ↑ Cohen, Peter (April 28, 2006). "Securing new funding, Destineer promises more Mac games". Macworld. IDG. http://www.macworld.com/article/1050576/destineer.html.
- ↑ Phillips, Michael (August 26, 2002). "Interview: Destineer's Peter Tamte". IMG. http://www.insidemacgames.com/features/view.php?ID=173.
- ↑ "Macworld: News: Destineer acquires MacSoft". 2006-11-07. http://www.macworld.com/news/2003/01/30/macsoft/.
- ↑ "Destineer Announces Acquisition of Pioneering GAMES Developer, Atomic Games". http://www.destineerstudios.com/html/press/press_releases/atomic.html.
- ↑ "MacGamer - Get In The Game". 2006-10-19. http://www.macgamer.com/features/?id=1413.
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