CentreGold was a three-way partnership between two Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. Most video game publishers also produce and publish computer games, but the term video game publisher is often used generically to refer to companies that publish... video game publishers ( US Gold was a British computer and video game publisher and developer during the 1980s and 1990s, producing numerous titles on a variety of 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit platforms. Overview US Gold was founded in Liverpool, England in 1984. Their primary purpose was to publish popular American... U.S. Gold and CentreSoft) and a A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video or computer games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game system, such as the Sony PlayStation, or may develop for a variety of systems including PCs. Some developers also specialize in certain... video game developer ( Core Design is a video game developer best known for creating the popular Tomb Raider series. The studio is based in Derby, a city in the United Kingdom. It is owned by Eidos Interactive, having been part of distribution company CentreGold when Eidos acquired it in 1996. Eidos subsequently sold... Core Design). It was based in the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and a member of the British Commonwealth and European Union. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, UK or, inaccurately, as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent parts. Three of these parts... United Kingdom. CentreGold was shortlived, being acquired by Eidos Interactive is a publisher of video and computer games based in Britain. Its most well-known game series include Tomb Raider, Commandos, Deus Ex, Legacy of Kain, and Thief. Founded in 1990 as a company specialising in video compression, Eidos began moving into games in 1995 with the acquisition... Eidos Interactive in April 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. Events Environmental change The invasive species Asian long-horned beetle is found in New York January 7 - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern... 1996. Eidos chose to sell CentreGold's publishing business, under the name CentreSoft, to Activision, Inc. ( NASDAQ: ATVI) is a computer and video game publisher founded in 1979. Its first products were cartridges for the Atari 2600 video console system, and it is now one of the largest video game publishers in the world, second only to Electronic Arts. History Prior to the formation... Activision, but retained Core Design as an internal development studio.