Gathering of Developers (aka God Games and Gathering) was a Texas-based PC and video games publishing company, founded in January 1998 with the mission to bridge the gap between publishers and independent game developers. Fueled by past publishing experiences and frustrations, several experienced development companies bound together to form a relationship-based publisher. The company later became a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive. Gathering's first wave of releases included Railroad Tycoon II, Nocturne, Darkstone, Age of Wonders and Fly!. The company later expanded to the console market. Take Two redirects here. ... Railroad Tycoon is an economic simulation and computer strategy game. ... Nocturne is also the name of a role-playing game for the PlayStation 2. ... Darkstone is a computer role-playing game created by French developer Delphine Software and released in 1999. ... Age of Wonders is a turn-based strategy PC-game often likened to Master of Magic. ... Fly! is a flight simulator for PC and Apple Macintosh computers developed by Terminal Reality and published by Gathering of Developers. ...

Take-Two continued to let Gathering run as a fairly autonomous label (much like their other label, Rockstar Games), publishing most of Take 2's non-budget PC games. Eventually Take-Two took over all operations of Gathering, and have since rebranded the PC-centric label 2K Games. The Rockstar Games logo. ... 2K Games is a video game publishing subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive. ...

During the gaming trade event E3, Gathering was known for being extremely extravagant; they were also notorious for their use of 'booth babes'. ^[1] E³ logo The Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly known as E³, was an annual trade show for the computer and video games industry presented by the Entertainment Software Association. ... A Promotional Model is a person hired to drive consumer demand for a product, service, brand, or concept by directly interacting with consumers. ...

Founding developers

• Ritual Entertainment
• Epic Games
• 3D Realms
• PopTop Software
• Terminal Reality
• Edge of Reality

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Founding Individuals

• Mike Wilson
• Harry A. Miller IV
• Doug Myres
• Binu Phillips
• J. Holt Foster, III
• Jim Bloom

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Notable games published

• Age of Wonders series
• Fly! series
• Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.²
• Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe
• Hidden & Dangerous 2
• Jazz Jackrabbit
• KISS: Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child
• Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven
• Max Payne
• Nocturne
• Oni
• Railroad Tycoon II and III
• Rune
• Serious Sam
• Space Colony
• Stronghold
• Stronghold: Crusader
• The Blair Witch Project trilogy
• The Guy Game
• Tropico
• Tropico 2: Pirate Cove
• Vietcong

Age of Wonders is a turn-based strategy PC-game often likened to Master of Magic. ... Fly! is a flight simulator for PC and Apple Macintosh computers developed by Terminal Reality and published by Gathering of Developers. ... Hidden and Dangerous is a late-ninties computer/console video game developed by Illusion Softworks and published by Take Two. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Jazz Jackrabbit Jazz Jackrabbit is the title character of a series of platform games. ... Max Payne is a third-person shooter computer game developed by the Finnish company Remedy Entertainment, produced by 3D Realms and published by Gathering of Developers in July, 2001 for Windows. ... Nocturne is also the name of a role-playing game for the PlayStation 2. ... This article is about the computer game. ... Screenshot from Railroad Tycoon Railroad Tycoon is an economic simulation and computer strategy game. ... Rune is a computer game, made by Human Head Studios. ... Serious Sam is the title of a series of first-person shooters created by the Croatian company Croteam. ... Space Colony is a PC strategy game developed by Firefly Studios and published by Gathering in 2003. ... For the 1993 game of the same name, see Stronghold (1993 game). ... The Blair Witch video games are a trilogy of action adventure games for Windows-based PCs based on the backstory of the movie The Blair Witch Project. ... The Guy Game is an adult video game for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC. Presented in a trivia gameshow style supporting up to four players, it consists of 20 episodes containing about 1000 questions. ... Tropico is a real-time strategy computer game developed by PopTop Software and published by Gathering of Developers in April 2001[1]. The game sees the player taking the role of El Presidente, the ruler of an island in the Caribbean during the Cold War era from the 1950s onward. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Notes

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External links

• Games published by GoD (page at Take 2)
• Gathering of Developers profile on MobyGames