Petroglyph Games

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Petroglyph Games

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legal form Incorporated
founding April 1, 2003
Seat Las Vegas , Nevada , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Branch Software development
Website www.petroglyphgames.com

Petroglyph Games is an independent computer game developer founded on April 1, 2003 and based in Las Vegas ( USA ). On June 6, 2007 the company had 53 employees and 15 forum supervisors.

The majority of the team's founding members had previously worked at Westwood Studios on the well-known real-time strategy game series Command & Conquer . When Westwood was acquired by Electronic Arts and transferred to EA Pacific , many developers gradually left EA Pacific and some of them started Petroglyph. In addition to former Westwood employees, Petroglyph also includes programmers who previously worked at Bitmap Brothers , Virgin Interactive and Firaxis , among others.

On February 16, 2006, Star Wars: Empire at War was the studio's first game. The publisher and Star Wars licensor was LucasArts .

Following the RTS genre, their second game, Universe at War: Earth Assault , was announced on January 27, 2007 .

Petroglyph is currently working on the title End of Nations , a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) based on the RTS genre . The alpha version appeared in mid-2012, the final version of the program should appear in early 2013.

In February 2013, Petroglyph announced that they were working on a WWII gambling game called Victory (computer game) .

In January 2015, the science fiction real-time strategy game Gray Goo was published.

In October 2015, the studio had to lay off some employees.

Together with Electronic Arts , a remaster of Command & Conquer and Command & Conquer: Red Alert was announced.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias Ritter: Petroglyph - Layoffs at the Gray Goo developer , Gamestar , October 8, 2015
  2. ↑ Christian Just: Command & Conquer and C&C: Red Alert - EA Announces Remaster of Strategy Classics , Gamestar , January 5, 2019

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