Aspyr Media

Aspyr Media
legal form	Incorporated
founding	1996
Seat	Austin , Texas ,
Branch	Software development
Website	www.aspyr.com

Aspyr Media is an American software company based in Austin (Texas) that specializes in porting Windows games to Macintosh systems and distributing them. The year of foundation was 1996.

history

In the early years, Aspyr usually took on the role of distributor in porting games to the various platforms and taking care of getting the rights to a game. The actual porting work was outsourced to partner companies such as Westlake Interactive and Beenox Studios . Together with Westlake Interactive, they brought their first big game onto the Mac market: Tomb Raider II - Starring Lara Croft (originally by Core Design ). This was followed by Tomb Raider and all other games in the Tomb Raider series, as well as other games for PC and console platforms. In the meantime, Aspyr does the porting itself.

In June 2014, the company released its first Linux port, Civilization V.

Games (selection)

• Borderlands 2 (also Linux)
• Call of Duty
• Call of Duty: United Offensive
• Call of Duty 2
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Call of Duty Black Ops
• Civilization V (also Linux)
• Civilization VI
• The Sims
• Fahrenheit - Indigo Prophecy Remastered (also Linux and iOS)
• Harry Potter 1 & 2
• Layers of Fear (also Linux)
• Prey
• Rage
• Starwars
  • The Force Unleashed
  • Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (also Linux)
• Tomb Raider 1-6
• Top Spin 2

Distributors

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The distribution of Aspyr products outside the USA is taken over by local distributors, some of whom also localize (translate) the products and adapt them to the domestic market.

• Application Systems Heidelberg (Germany)
• Softline Distribution (Great Britain)
• Apacabar (France)
• Silene.it (Italy)

Web links

• Website of the company (English)
• Aspyr Media at MobyGames (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About Us
2. ↑ Civilization V Linux Relase press release ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. Jump up ↑ Games by Aspyr. Application Systems Heidelberg Software GmbH, accessed on February 8, 2018 : "The games from Aspyr Media are distributed in German-speaking countries by Application Systems Heidelberg, mostly in a completely German version and with a German manual."