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Start-Up (also known as Start-Up 2000) is a PC video game in which players must try to build a successful business start-up from venture capitalists to IPO's. Start-Up is developed and published by Monte Cristo and distributed by Electronic Arts.
The following is a list of the most expensive video games ever developed, with a minimum total cost of US$50 million and sorted by the total cost adjusted for inflation. Most game budgets are not disclosed, so this list is not indicative of industry trends.
One of the first video games to be produced at a blockbuster or AAA scale was Squaresoft's Final Fantasy VII (1997), [5] which cost an estimated $40–45 million (inflation adjusted $76–85 million) to develop, [6] [7] making it the most expensive video game ever produced up until then, with its unprecedented cinematic CGI production values ...
Indie games don't sell as many copies as big-budget titles, although not necessarily because they're lower-quality. In general, indie game development starts with a handicap: a limited market.
The video game industry is the tertiary and quaternary sectors of the entertainment industry that specialize in the development, marketing, distribution, monetization, and consumer feedback of video games. The industry encompasses dozens of job disciplines and thousands of jobs worldwide. [1] The video game industry has grown from niche to ...
This is a list of largest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the video game industry with publicly disclosed deal values.Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard is the most expensive video game acquisitions of all time followed by Activision-Vivendi Games merger and Take-Two Interactive-Zynga acquisition. 14 of the 20 most expensive video game purchases in video game history occurred ...
As a hit-driven business, the great majority of the video game industry's software releases have been commercial disappointments.In the early 21st century, industry commentators made these general estimates: 10% of published games generated 90% of revenue; [1] that around 3% of PC games and 15% of console games have global sales of more than 100,000 units per year, with even this level ...
A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by an external video game developer. As with book publishers or publishers of DVD movies, video game publishers are responsible for their product's manufacturing and marketing, including market research and all aspects ...