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Encyclopedia > Wideload Games

Wideload Games is an American game developer located in Chicago, Illinois. Nickname: Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ...


It was founded in 2003 by Alexander Seropian, the founder of Bungie and head behind the games Halo: Combat Evolved, Myth, and Marathon, and 6 other ex-Bungie-employees, after leaving Bungie, which was integrated into Microsoft Corporation before. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alex Seropian was the initial founder and the President and CEO of Bungie, (legal definition of the company was known as the Bungie Software Products Corporation, after it was acquired by Microsoft, it then became Bungie Studios). ... Bungie Studios is an American video game developer founded in May 1991 under the name Bungie Software Products Corporation (more popularly shortened to Bungie Software) by two undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, Alex Seropian and Jason Jones. ... Halo: Combat Evolved, or simply Halo, is a video game in the first-person shooter (FPS) genre, created by the Microsoft-owned Bungie Studios. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into articles entitled Myth: The Fallen Lords, Myth II: Soulblighter, Myth III: The Wolf Age and Myth series. ... Marathon is the first title in the Marathon series of science fiction first-person shooter computer games from Bungie Software, the same company who created the Halo series. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), (founded 1975), headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, is the worlds largest software company (with over 50,000 employees in various countries, as of May 2004). ...


Wideload focuses on a core team and many external developers in developing games. The goal was to counteract the growing development costs associated with the current game industry, and to prove that smaller companies with relatively modest funds could make a game that could still sell well compared to releases from larger corporations.


Wideload's first project is Stubbs the Zombie in "Rebel Without a Pulse", a 3D-action-adventure in which the player takes control of the zombie Stubbs in a plot filled with black humor. It uses a heavily modified version of the Halo-game engine. It was published in fall 2005 for Macintosh, Windows-PCs, and Microsoft's Xbox by Aspyr Media. For the main character see, Edward Stubbs Stubblefield Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse, or simply Stubbs the Zombie, is a third-person zombie game developed by Wideload Games, published by Aspyr Media, and built on the Halo engine. ... The rewrite of this article is being devised at Talk:3D computer graphics/Temp. ... Action-adventure games are video games that combine elements of the adventure game genre with various action elements. ... A game engine is the core software component of a computer or video game or other interactive application with real-time graphics. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... The Altair 8800 was among the first microcomputers to be affordable by an individual, although it initially lacked peripherals and memory. ... The Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. ... Aspyr is a company that specializes in porting Windows games to the Mac platform. ...


Their sophomore project, Hail to the Chimp, is currently being worked on and will be published in Spring of 2008 by Gamecock Media Group for next-gen consoles. Hail to the Chimp is an upcoming game for consoles developed by Wideload Games and published by Gamecock Media Group. ...


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