U.S. Gold Ltd.

U.S. Gold was a British computer and video game publisher and developer from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s, producing numerous titles on a variety of 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit platforms. U.S. Gold was founded in Birmingham in 1984 by Geoff Brown as the publishing division of Centresoft. The publisher continued to expand their operation well into the 1990s. However, a number of their licensing deals, particularly one with LucasArts, fell through, threatening to affect their income. In order to help consolidate their finances, they joined forces with UK software distributor CentreSoft to form the CentreGold Plc Group. Internal game development studios owned by U.S. Gold were the internally formed Silicon Dreams and acquired Core Design. The group was acquired by Eidos Interactive in April 1996. Eidos sold off CentreSoft and maintained Core Design as a developer but decided to discontinue the U.S. Gold brand. Silicon Dreams was sold back to U.S. Gold founder Geoff Brown and became the keystone for his new development venture Geoff Brown Holdings (GBH). The last retail game to bear the U.S. Gold logo was Olympic Games: Atlanta 1996, released in June 1996.

Ubisoft Entertainment SA

Ubisoft EntertaUbisoft (the acronym UBI standing for Union des Bretons Indépendants) was founded in 1986 in Brittany, France, by Yves Guillemot and his four brothers. The company initially focused on distributing games in France and gradually opened development studios all across the globe. Currently Ubisoft Entertainment SA (formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment Software) is a large international producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products with their headquarters located in Montreuil, France. The company has many divisions and offices all over the world.

Ubisoft SRL

Ubisoft has been present in Romania since 1992, the first studio established outside France and its first studio in Eastern Europe. The Romanian adventure began with a small team of 4 programmers and 2 graphic artists, responsible for porting Ubisoft’s console games on PCs. As of 1998, in addition to the production studio, the Bucharest subsidiary includes a marketing and sales department. The division distributes Ubisoft games and Guillemot products (PC and console accessories from Thrustmaster and hardware from Hercules). In 2008 the division has 500 people in its production, testing and IT departments.

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Unique Development Studios AB

UDS, Unique Development Studios AB, is an interactive entertainment developer with offices in Norrköping, Sweden (HQ), Gothenburg, Sweden and London, UK. The company was founded in 1993, now developing on Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation 2 and PSone, PC, Nintendo Gamecube and Gameboy Advance platfo

United Software GmbH

Ariolasoft GmbH (from 1983 to 1990) Ariolasoft was a German computer game publisher and distributor. Besides releasing games for home computers, they were also notable for being the distributor for the Sega Master System in Germany between 1987 and 1988. Ariolasoft was also the publisher for Electronic Arts and Brøderbund in Europe before those companies set up their own European offices. Some of the better received original games released by the company were Deactivators, Golf Construction Set, Out of This World, Starfox (no relation to the Nintendo franchise of the same name) and They Stole a Million. The company also had a division in the United Kingdom: Ariolasoft UK. The company was renamed United Software GmbH in the middle of 1990; it had started as the software subsidiary of Ariola Records, a German record label belonging to BMG. In 1993 United Software was taken over by Microprose Germany.

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Uzdream

Uzdream was founded in January 1994 as Sailon Soft by a team that split off Mirinae, including its founder Yang Jaeyeong. The company changed its name to Uzdream in March 2002.

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Vektor Grafix Ltd

As the name implies, this UK team concentrated mostly on games using mathematical methods of drawing screen displays. It was founded in June 1987 by former musician Andy Craven and Danny Gallagher.

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