Mass Media (company)

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Mass Media, Inc.

Company type	Private
Industry	Video games
Founded	1980s
Headquarters	Moorpark, California
Parent	THQ (2007–2008) 2K Games (2018–present)
Website	massmedia.com

Mass Media, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Moorpark, California.

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). In 2018, Mass Media was acquired by 2K Games.^[3]

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
	Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces
	Tetris
	Zombie Dinos from Planet Zeltoid
1993	Caesars World of Boxing
	Mystic Midway: Phantom Express	CD-i, DOS
	Voyeur	CD-i
1994	Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces	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
1999	Namco Museum 64	Nintendo 64
2000	Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness	Dreamcast, Nintendo 64
	Namco Museum	Dreamcast
	Saban's Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue	Nintendo 64
	StarCraft 64	Nintendo 64
2001	Namco Museum	Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2
2001	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	PlayStation 2
2005	The Bible Game	PlayStation 2, Xbox
2006	Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers	PlayStation 2
2007	Tetris Evolution	Xbox 360
2008	Saints Row 2	PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
2009	Marvel Super Hero Squad	PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable
2009	Saints Row 2	Windows
2010	Darksiders	Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
	The Midway	PlayStation Home
	The Midway 2	PlayStation Home
2011	Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine	Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
2012	Jak and Daxter Collection	PlayStation 3
2012	The Midway 3	PlayStation Home
2013	Jak and Daxter Collection	PlayStation Vita
2014	Ratchet & Clank Collection	PlayStation Vita
2015	Evolve	Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
2016	Mafia III	Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
2017	XCOM 2: War of the Chosen	PlayStation 4, Xbox One
2018	Carnival Games	Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
2022	New Tales from the Borderlands	Nintendo Switch

References

^ "Mass Media, Inc". MobyGames. Archived from the original on 2009-03-28. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
^ "Top Ten PS3 Items". Gamer Indepth. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
^ https://www.linkedin.com/company/mass-media

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