American video game developer
Mass Media, Inc. is an Americanvideo game developer based inMoorpark, California.
Mass Media began in the 1980s atCinemaware. In 1991, they formed a production unit called Philips P.O.V. Entertainment Group. Mass Media leftPhilips in 1995 and the company became an exclusive developer forTime Warner Interactive. After Time Warner halted their interactive division, Mass Media became an independent developer. It was acquired byTHQ in February 2007 who closed the studio in November 2008.[1] The company started back up immediately, focusing on developing for the Sony platforms, including thePlayStation 3. On the PlayStation 3, they developed content and spaces for its social gaming networkPlayStation Home including the gamesThe Midway,The Midway 2, andThe Midway 3 which were three game spaces with ten mini-games in each with ten rewards per mini-game. The Green Ticket, used to play the games in the threeMidways, was consistently the best selling item in PS Home.[2] Mass Media has also continued to develop game engine technology for PlayStation 3 and other platforms. Notably this includes one of the first non-Sony PlayStation 3 implementations of fully SPU based GPU rendering command generation, significantly reducing rendering overhead on the main CPU (used inSaints Row 2 and subsequent PS3 titles). In 2018, Mass Media was acquired by2K.[3]
Mass Media has developed over forty titles and currently has additional titles in various stages of development. All of their titles were developed with their development tool set called BOLT.
| Year | Title | Platform(s) |
|---|
| 1992 | Defender of the Crown | CD-i |
| Girl's Club |
| Lords of the Rising Sun |
| Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces |
| Tetris |
| Zombie Dinos from Planet Zeltoid |
| 1993 | Caesars World of Boxing |
| Mystic Midway: Phantom Express | CD-i,MS-DOS |
| Voyeur | CD-i |
| 1994 | Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces | MS-DOS |
| NFL Hall of Fame Football | CD-i |
| Voyeur | MS-DOS |
| 1995 | Thunder in Paradise Interactive | CD-i,MS-DOS |
| 1996 | 3-D TableSports | MS-DOS |
| 1998 | The Game of Life | Windows,PlayStation |
| 1999 | BassMasters 2000 | Nintendo 64 |
| Namco Museum 64 |
| 2000 | Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness | Dreamcast,Nintendo 64 |
| Namco Museum | Dreamcast |
| Saban's Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue | Nintendo 64 |
| StarCraft 64 |
| 2001 | Namco Museum | Game Boy Advance,PlayStation 2 |
| Pac-Man Collection | Game Boy Advance |
| 2002 | Namco Museum | GameCube,Xbox |
| Pac-Man Fever | GameCube,PlayStation 2 |
| Shrek: Super Party | PlayStation 2,Xbox |
| The Simpsons Skateboarding | PlayStation 2 |
| 2003 | Blackthorne | Game Boy Advance |
| Jim Henson's Muppets Party Cruise | GameCube,PlayStation 2 |
| Rock n' Roll Racing | Game Boy Advance |
| Shrek: Super Party | GameCube |
| The Lost Vikings | Game Boy Advance |
| 2004 | Nicktoons Movin' | PlayStation 2 |
| 2005 | Full Spectrum Warrior |
| The Bible Game | PlayStation 2,Xbox |
| 2006 | Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers | PlayStation 2 |
| 2007 | Tetris Evolution | Xbox 360 |
| 2008 | Saints Row 2 | PlayStation 3,Xbox 360 |
| 2009 | Marvel Super Hero Squad | PlayStation 2,PlayStation Portable |
| Saints Row 2 | Windows |
| 2010 | Darksiders | Windows,PlayStation 3,Xbox 360 |
| The Midway | PlayStation Home |
| The Midway 2 |
| 2011 | Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine | Windows,PlayStation 3,Xbox 360 |
| 2012 | Jak and Daxter Collection | PlayStation 3 |
| The Midway 3 | PlayStation Home |
| 2013 | Jak and Daxter Collection | PlayStation Vita |
| 2014 | Ratchet & Clank Collection |
| 2015 | Evolve | Windows,PlayStation 4,Xbox One |
| 2016 | Mafia III |
| 2017 | XCOM 2: War of the Chosen | PlayStation 4,Xbox One |
| 2018 | Carnival Games | Windows,Switch,PlayStation 4,Xbox One |
| 2022 | New Tales from the Borderlands | Switch |
