NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Relic Entertainment

Relic Entertainment is a game development company that specializes in 3D real-time strategy games and has released a number of innovative PC games. Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Look up slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

History

Relic was started in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by Alex Garden and Luke Moloney in 1997. Their first title, Homeworld, was released to critical acclaim and successful sales. Though they did not immediately continue working on the franchise (Sierra Entertainment, the game's publisher owned the rights), the game did have a spin-off, Homeworld: Cataclysm, developed by Barking Dog Studios and published by Sierra. This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... Along with Luke Moloney, Alex Garden is one of the founders of Vancouver-based game developer Relic Entertainment. ... Along with Alex Garden, Luke Moloney is one of the founders of Vancouver-based game developer Relic Entertainment. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the term used in science-fiction, see Core worlds. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The original Homeworld: Cataclysm box. ... Barking Dog Studios was a video game company founded in May 1998 by several former employees of Radical Entertainment. ...

Their next title was Impossible Creatures, produced and released by Microsoft in 2002. It focused on a fictional environment during the 1930s, allowing players to design units from different anatomical parts of animals. The game was successful, though it did not receive the same attention as Homeworld. Impossible Creatures is a real time strategy game developed by Relic Entertainment in conjunction with Microsoft Game Studios. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The 1930s (years from 1930â€“1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ...

In September 2003, a sequel Homeworld 2 was released. Although it boasted improved graphics and features and changed some elements of gameplay from the original, reviews cited some issues and did not score it as highly as its predecessor. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section contains a plot summary that may be overly long, confusing, or ambiguous. ...

On April 27, 2004, publisher THQ announced it was acquiring Relic for close to $10 million in an all-cash transaction, completed around early May, 2004.^[1] April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... THQ Inc. ...

Relic then released Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War on September 20, 2004, an RTS game based on Games Workshop's popular Warhammer 40,000 franchise. The game was a success, with many reviewers applauding its innovative resource management system and squad-based interface. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War is a Real Time Strategy game for the PC developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ. Based on Games Workshops popular tabletop wargame, Warhammer 40,000, Dawn of War was released in September 2004. ... September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Real-time strategy, often abbreviated RTS, is a genre of computer games characterized by being wargames which take place in real-time, where resource gathering, base building, technology development and direct control over individual units are key components. ... This article is about the tabletop miniature wargame and the fictional universe in which it is set. ...

Following up on the success of Dawn of War, Relic released an expansion entitled Winter Assault on September 19, 2005. The expansion added a fifth race, the Imperial Guard, to the game, as well as giving the existing races several new units. The expansion was mildly successful, although it did not have the impact of the original game. The Imperial Guard (French:Garde impÃ©riale) was originally a small group of elite soldiers of the French Army under the direct command of Napoleon I, but grew considerably over time. ...

Relic's first foray into the console world of gaming, The Outfit, was released on March 13, 2006 for the Xbox 360. Not very successful, many reviewers saw it as a love-it-or-hate-it game. It was also criticized for its weak single-player modes. The Nintendo GameCube is an example of a popular video game console. ... The Outfit is a squad-based action game built for Microsofts Xbox 360, set within war ravaged Europe during World War II. The game combines squad-based combat and easy to use strategic gameplay elements with cinematic interludes. ... The Xbox 360 is the successor to Microsofts Xbox video game console, developed in cooperation with IBM, ATI, Samsung and SiS. Information on the console first came through viral marketing campaigns and it was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12, 2005, with detailed launch and game information divulged...

September 11, 2006 saw the release of Company of Heroes, a World War II-themed RTS that used Relic's new Essence engine. The engine, which had been designed in-house by Relic, featured many next-generation graphical effects, including HDR and dynamic lighting, as well as utilizing the Havok middleware physics engine. The game was a smash hit, with a Game Rankings average score of 94% and several Game of the Year awards from multiple gaming magazines and websites. Company of Heroes (abbr. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Essence Engine is a game engine developed by Relic Entertainment The Essence Engine features all the next-generation graphical effects, including High Dynamic Range Lighting, dynamic lighting & shadows, advanced shader effects and normal mapping. ... A game engine is the core software component of a computer or video game or other interactive application with real-time graphics. ... The seventh generation is the current era in the history of computer and video games that began on November 22, 2005 with the release of Microsofts Xbox 360, and continued a year later with the release of Sonys PlayStation 3 on November 11, 2006 in Japan, November 17... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Havok Game Dynamics SDK, better known as simply Havok, is a middleware physics engine (in this case Dynamical simulation) designed for computer and video games by allowing interaction between objects or other characters in real-time. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Game Rankings is a website which keeps track of video game reviews from other sites, and combines them to present an average rating for each game. ...

Soon after, a second, standalone expansion for Dawn of War was released on October 9, 2006. Dark Crusade brought many new things to the franchise: two new races (the Necron and the Tau) and a Total War-esque turned base campaign, as well as a much-needed rebalancing and tweaking of game mechanics. Its standalone design meant that the player needed neither the original Dawn of War nor the Winter Assault expansion to enjoy the game's full feature (apart from online multiplayer games). Dark Crusade was modestly successful, but many reviewers complained that it was in the shadow of Company of Heroes, which many now considered the new benchmark for all RTS games. However Dark Crusade still won awards of its own. It has been suggested that Necron Monolith be merged into this article or section. ... In the universe of Games Workshops table-top wargame Warhammer 40,000, the Tau[1] are an alien race, inhabiting a small but dense region of space on the eastern edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, roughly 300 light years in diameter. ... Total war is a military conflict in which nations mobilize all available resources in order to destroy another nations ability to engage in war. ...

There has also been speculation supported though various sources that Relic has re-acquired the rights to the Homeworld franchise from Vivendi, although no official confirmation has been made. Vivendi SA (formerly known as Vivendi Universal) is a French media conglomerate with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications, the Internet as well as video games. ...

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