Mass Media Games

Mass Media Games, Inc.
Private
Industry Video game industry
Founded 1980s
Headquarters Moorpark, California, U.S.
Website massmedia.com

Mass Media Games, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Moorpark, California. The current focus of the company is to develop original material for 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 titleU.S. release datePlatform
Defender of the Crown1986CD-i
Tetris1986CD-i
Lords of the Rising Sun1989CD-i
Girls Club1992CD-i
Zombie Dinos1992CD-i
Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces1992CD-i
Mystic Midway Phantom Express1993CD-i
Caesars World of Boxing1993CD-i
Voyeur1993CD-i
NFL Hall of Fame1994CD-i
Thunder in Paradise1995CD-i
3-D Table Sports1996PC
The Game of Life1998PC
BassMasters 20001999Nintendo 64
StarCraft 64June 13, 2000Nintendo 64
Ms. Pac-Man Maze MadnessSeptember 8, 2000Nintendo 64, Dreamcast
Power Rangers: Lightspeed RescueJune 1, 2000Nintendo 64
Namco MuseumJuly 12, 2001Game Boy Advance
Pac-Man CollectionJuly 12, 2001Game Boy Advance
Star Trek DS9: Dominion Wars2001PC
Pac-Man FeverSeptember 22, 2002GameCube, PlayStation 2
Namco MuseumSeptember 22, 2002GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Dreamcast
Shrek Super PartyNovember 16, 2002GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
BlackThorne2003Game Boy Advance
Rock 'N Roll Racing2003Game Boy Advance
The Lost Vikings2003Game Boy Advance
Muppets Party CruiseNovember 11, 2003 (GC)
November 13, 2003 (PS2)		GameCube, PlayStation 2
Metal Arms: Glitch in the SystemNovember 18, 2003PlayStation 2
Nicktoons Movin'2004PlayStation 2
Namco VintageNovember 4, 2004Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox
The Bible GameOctober 23, 2005PlayStation 2, Xbox
Full Spectrum WarriorMarch 23, 2005PlayStation 2
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten HammersMarch 27, 2006PlayStation 2
Tetris Evolution2007Xbox 360
Stuntman: Ignition (assisting Paradigm Entertainment with PS3 version)September 17, 2007PlayStation 3
Saints Row 2 (assisting Volition with PS3 version)October 14, 2008PlayStation 3
Darksiders (assisting Vigil Games with PS3 version)January 5, 2010PlayStation 3
The MidwayJuly 1, 2010PlayStation Home via PlayStation 3
The Midway 2December 9, 2010PlayStation Home via PlayStation 3
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (assisting Relic Entertainment with PS3 version)September 6, 2011PlayStation 3
Jak and Daxter Collection (Trilogy in EU)February 7, 2012PlayStation 3
The Midway 3May 16, 2012PlayStation Home via PlayStation 3
Jak and Daxter Collection (Trilogy in EU)June 18, 2013PlayStation Vita
Ratchet & Clank Collection (Trilogy in EU)July 2, 2014PlayStation Vita
Mafia 3 (assisting Hangar 13 with PS4 version)October 6, 2016PlayStation 4

References

  1. ↑ "Mass Media, Inc". MobyGames. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
  2. ↑ "Top Ten PS3 Items". Gamer Indepth. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
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