List of game engines
Encyclopedia
Many tools called game engine
Game engine
A game engine is a system designed for the creation and development of video games. There are many game engines that are designed to work on video game consoles and personal computers...

s
are available for game designers to code a game quickly and easily without building from the ground up.

Free and open source

Name Primary programming language
Programming language
A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....

Bindings
Language binding
In computing, a binding from a programming language to a library or OS service is an API providing that service in the language.Many software libraries are written in systems programming languages such as C or C++...

Cross-platform SDL
Simple DirectMedia Layer
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform, free and open source multimedia library written in C that presents a simple interface to various platforms' graphics, sound, and input devices....

2D oriented Scripting
Scripting language
A scripting language, script language, or extension language is a programming language that allows control of one or more applications. "Scripts" are distinct from the core code of the application, as they are usually written in a different language and are often created or at least modified by the...

Notable games License Notes and references
Aleph One C++ Lua, Marathon markup language Aleph One (Marathon
Marathon (video game)
Marathon is a first-person shooter video game with a science fiction theme developed and published by Bungie released in December 1994 for the Apple Macintosh. The game was Bungie's second foray into the emerging genre of games with a first-person perspective, the first being Pathways into...

 clone)
GPL
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

FPS engine
Allegro library
Allegro library
Allegro is a free and open source software library for video game development.The functionality of the library includes support for basic 2D graphics, image manipulation, text output, audio output, midi music, input and timers, as well as additional routines for fixed-point and floating-point...

C
C (programming language)
C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....

Ada
Ada (programming language)
Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, wide-spectrum, and object-oriented high-level computer programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages...

, C++
C++
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...

, C#, D
D (programming language)
The D programming language is an object-oriented, imperative, multi-paradigm, system programming language created by Walter Bright of Digital Mars. It originated as a re-engineering of C++, but even though it is mainly influenced by that language, it is not a variant of C++...

, Lisp, Lua, Mercury, Pascal
Pascal (programming language)
Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968/9 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.A derivative known as Object Pascal...

, Perl
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...

, Python
Python (programming language)
Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

, Scheme
zlib
Zlib License
The zlib License is a permissive free software license which defines the terms under which the zlib and libpng software libraries can be distributed. It is also used by other free software packages....

Graphics and audio
Ardor3D
Ardor3D
Ardor3D is a scengraph based 3D game engine, written entirely in Java and utilizing OpenGL for high performance gaming and visualization.-History:...

Java zlib Fork of jMonkeyEngine 2.0
Axiom Engine C# LGPL
Blender
Game Blender
The Blender Game Engine is a component of Blender, a free and open-source comprehensive 3D production suite, used for making real-time interactive content...

C++ Python Yo Frankie!
Yo Frankie!
Yo Frankie! is an open video game made by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation, originally scheduled for release in August 2008. It is based on the universe and characters of the free film produced earlier in 2008 by the Blender Institute, Big Buck Bunny...

, ColorCube
GPL 2D/3D game engine packaged in a 3D modeler for quick and intuitive use; fully integrated Bullet physics library
Build engine
Build engine
The Build engine is a first-person shooter engine created by Ken Silverman for 3D Realms. Like the Doom engine, the Build engine represents its world on a two-dimensional grid using closed 2D shapes called sectors, and uses simple flat objects called sprites to populate the world geometry with...

C Duke Nukem 3D
Duke Nukem 3D
Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter computer game developed by 3D Realms and published by GT Interactive Software. The full version was released for the PC . It is a sequel to the platform games Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II published by Apogee...

, Shadow Warrior
Shadow Warrior
Shadow Warrior, often known by its initials SW, is a first-person shooter computer game developed by 3D Realms and released on May 13, 1997 by GT Interactive. Shadow Warrior was developed using Ken Silverman's Build engine and improved on 3D Realms' previous Build engine game, Duke Nukem 3D...

, Blood
Custom FPS engine
First-person shooter engine
A first-person shooter engine is a video game engine specialized for simulating 3D environments for use in a first-person shooter video game. First-person refers to the view where the players see the world from the eyes of their characters...

, 2.5D
2.5D
2.5D , 3/4 perspective and pseudo-3D are terms used to describe either:* 2D graphical projections and techniques which cause a series of images or scenes to fake or appear to be three-dimensional when in fact they are not, or* gameplay in an otherwise three-dimensional video game that is...

 (2D grid base geometry.)
BRGameEngine C++ and Lua Trem de DOido GPL2 Adventure engine
Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...

, 2.5D
2.5D
2.5D , 3/4 perspective and pseudo-3D are terms used to describe either:* 2D graphical projections and techniques which cause a series of images or scenes to fake or appear to be three-dimensional when in fact they are not, or* gameplay in an otherwise three-dimensional video game that is...

 (3D Ogre, OpenGL, OpenAL, Bullet.)
Cafu Engine
Cafu Engine
The Cafu Engine is a game engine developed by Carsten Fuchs. It is portable across platforms and currently runs under Windows and Linux, with plans to be adapted to Mac OS...

C++ Lua GPL or proprietary
Proprietary software
Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...

Full game engine; graphics, audio, physics, scripting, networking, and map editor
ClanLib
ClanLib
ClanLib is a cross-platform C++ game SDK, currently supporting Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It has full hardware accelerated graphics support through OpenGL, and also a software renderer...

C++ Clanlib Self-described "toolkit", provides most game engine functionality and extensive GUI programming
Cocos2d
Cocos2d
Cocos2d is an open source 2D game framework. There are two versions, one written in Python and one written in Objective-C targeting iOS.-iOS port:...

Python, Objective-C
Objective-C
Objective-C is a reflective, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.Today, it is used primarily on Apple's Mac OS X and iOS: two environments derived from the OpenStep standard, though not compliant with it...

MIT Ported to Linux, Mac OS X, iOS, Windows. iOS port is written in Objective-C and integrated with Box2D and Chipmunk physics engines
Construct Classic
Construct (software)
Construct is a free, open source DirectX game creator. It aims to allow games to be created in an easy drag and drop manner, using an event-based programming system, or optionally with Python scripting. It features pixel shaders, motion blur, zooming and rotations, a Behaviors system, a bone...

Event Based Minitroid GPL/BSD
Corona SDK Lua Bubble Ball
Bubble ball
Bubble Ball is a physics puzzle game developed by a 14-year-old boy, Robert Nay. It was released on December 22, 2010 and in its first two weeks was downloaded 1 million times from Apple iTunes...

Crystal Space
Crystal Space
Crystal Space is a framework for developing 3D applications written in C++ by Jorrit Tyberghein and others. The first public release was on August 26, 1997. It is typically used as a game engine but the framework is more general and can be used for any kind of 3D visualization. It is very...

C++ Java, Perl, Python LGPL
GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License...

Graphics, audio, physics
Cube C++ zlib Previous gen, 2d grid-based system, optimised for outdoor rather than indoor maps
Cube 2 C++ Cubescript zlib Efficient 6 directional height-map based geometry (versus traditional Polygon soup
Polygon soup
A Polygon soup is a group of unorganized triangles, with generally no relationship whatsoever. Polygon soups are the default output format when geometry is exported from a 3D modeling package, such as Maya or Blender. As soon as any kind of hierarchical sorting or clustering scheme is applied, then...

 model), hence the name Cube, FPS engine
Delta3d
Delta3d
Delta3D is an Open Source Software gaming/simulation engine API. Primarily managed and supported by the Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation Institute at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Alion Science has also been a major contributor to enhancements and...

C++ Python LGPL Uses modular libraries.
DGD LPC LPC LPMud server
DXFramework
DXFramework
DXFramework is a simple, illustrative, general purpose 2D computer game engine for Microsoft Visual Studio using Microsoft’s DirectX technology, version 9.0c....

C++ Python BSD DirectX renderer, integrated into visual studio
Env3D
Env3D
Env3D is a Java based open-source 3D game engine. It is built on top of jMonkeyEngine 3.0 - with a stable release available running on 2.0 for systems with older graphical hardware....

Java GPL 3D game engine that creates a simple interface for dynamically adding EnvObjects. Built on jMonkeyEngine 2.0. Intended for educational use in teaching computer science.
Exult
Exult
Exult is a free software reimplementation of the Ultima VII game engine. It enables play of Ultima VII: The Black Gate and Ultima VII Part 2: Serpent Isle, and their corresponding expansion disks Forge of Virtue and Silver Seed, on modern machines. In order to play these games, data files from the...

C++ GPL Free software
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

 reimplementation of the Ultima VII
Ultima VII
Ultima VII: The Black Gate is the seventh installment of the Ultima series of computer role-playing games. It was released in 1992.The Black Gate was critically and commercially successful, being widely lauded as a high point in the series and as one of the best isometric RPGs ever created...

 game engine
Flexible Isometric Free Engine
Flexible Isometric Free Engine
The Flexible Isometric Free Engine is an open source, cross-platform game engine written in C++ with Python scripting abilities. It is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License , which allows creating independent commercial games....

C++ Python Unknown Horizons
Unknown Horizons
Unknown Horizons is a genre-mix of city-building game and real time strategy. It is released under the GNU General Public License and is therefore free software....

LGPL 2d game engine optimised for RTS
Real-time strategy
Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....

 or RPG
Role-playing video game
Role-playing video games are a video game genre with origins in pen-and-paper role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, using much of the same terminology, settings and game mechanics. The player in RPGs controls one character, or several adventuring party members, fulfilling one or many quests...

 games
Flixel
Flixel
Flixel is a free Flash Actionscript library created by Adam Saltsman . It provides some useful base classes for creating 2D Flash games and other content...

ActionScript Various games by Gregory Weir
Gregory Weir
Gregory Weir is an American game designer and writer. He is known for creating short Flash games. He currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.-Early life and education:...

MIT Full boiler-plate
Boilerplate (text)
Boilerplate is any text that is or can be reused in new contexts or applications without being changed much from the original. Many computer programmers often use the term boilerplate code. A legal boilerplate is a standard provision in a contract....

 code for flash games
GameKit (OgreKit) C++ Lua MIT/zlib/BSD Has Blender integration similar to BGE. Fully integrated Bullet physics library
Genesis3D
Genesis3D
Genesis3D was a project by Eclipse Entertainment to create a real-time 3D engine for Microsoft Windows. It was released as source code in 1998. The first released version supported hardware acceleration and a software renderer...

C Renderer, one of the earliest to use skeletal animation
Skeletal animation
Skeletal animation is a technique in computer animation in which a character is represented in two parts: a surface representation used to draw the character and a hierarchical set of interconnected bones used to animate the mesh...

id Tech 1
Id Tech 1
- See also :*List of game engines*First person shooter engine*id Tech*Doom engine*Doom *Quake engine*Quake *List of first-person shooter engines...

C ACS Doom, Doom II, HeXen
Hexen
Hexen is a first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed by GT Interactive beginning on September 30, 1995. It is the sequel to 1994's Heretic, and the second game in the Serpent Riders series...

, Heretic, Strife
GPL 2D based geometry, sprite and particles, uses clever methods to emulate 3D graphics
id Tech 2 C QuakeC
QuakeC
QuakeC is an interpreted language developed in 1996 by John Carmack of id Software to program parts of the computer game Quake. Using QuakeC, a programmer is able to customize Quake to great extents by adding weapons, changing game logic and physics, and programming complex scenarios...

Quake II
Quake II
Quake II, released on December 9, 1997, is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Id Software and distributed by Activision. It is not a sequel to Quake; it merely uses the name of the former game due to Id's difficulties in coming up with alternative names.The soundtrack for Quake II...

GPL Full game engine, better known as the Quake II engine.
id Tech 3 C Game Data {PAK OR PK3 } QuakeC
QuakeC
QuakeC is an interpreted language developed in 1996 by John Carmack of id Software to program parts of the computer game Quake. Using QuakeC, a programmer is able to customize Quake to great extents by adding weapons, changing game logic and physics, and programming complex scenarios...

Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena , is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game released on December 2, 1999. The game was developed by id Software and featured music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly...

GPL Full game engine, better known as the Quake III engine.
id Tech 4 C++ Id Tech 4 Doom 3
Doom 3
Doom 3 is a science fiction horror video game developed by id Software and published by Activision. An example of the first-person shooter genre, Doom 3 was first released for Microsoft Windows on August 3, 2004. The game was later adapted for Linux, as well as being ported by Aspyr Media for Mac...

GPL
Indielib C++ LGPL 2d game engine in C++. Includes entity system, sprite animations, collision detection, bitmap/TTF fonts, parallax scrolling
Parallax scrolling
Parallax scrolling is a special scrolling technique in computer graphics, popularized in the 1982 arcade game Moon Patrol. In this pseudo-3D technique, background images move by the camera slower than foreground images, creating an illusion of depth in a 2D video game and adding to the immersion...

, 3d objects, cameras, timers, alpha blending, shaders and image filters.
ioquake3 C Urban Terror
Urban Terror
Urban Terror, commonly abbreviated as UrT, is a free multi-player first person shooter game developed by FrozenSand. Originally a total conversion of id Software's Quake III Arena, FrozenSand released Urban Terror as a free standalone game in 2007 utilizing ioquake3 as an engine...

GPL
Irrlicht Engine
Irrlicht Engine
Irrlicht is an open source 3D engine written in C++. It is cross-platform, officially running on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Windows CE and due to its open nature ports to other systems are available, including Xbox, PlayStation Portable, SymbianOS and iPhone.Irrlicht is known for its small size...

C++ Java, Perl, Ruby, Python, FreeBASIC, Lua, Delphi, C#, Game Maker, AutoIt Squirrel, AutoIt
AutoIt
AutoIt is a freeware automation language for Microsoft Windows. In its earliest release, the software was primarily intended to create automation scripts for Microsoft Windows programs but has since grown to include enhancements in both programming language design and overall functionality.With...

H-Craft Championship
H-Craft Championship
H-Craft Championship is a science fiction racing game developed by independent game studio Irrgheist. A Russian version of the game was later released by Akella...

zlib
Zlib License
The zlib License is a permissive free software license which defines the terms under which the zlib and libpng software libraries can be distributed. It is also used by other free software packages....

Jake2
Jake2
Jake2 is a Java port of the GPL release of the Quake II game engine.-History:The 0.9.1 version of Jake2 was shown by the JOGL team for JavaOne 2004, to present an example of Java-OpenGL interoperability...

Java GPL
JGame Java, Actionscript 3 BSD Also runs on J2ME and Android
jMonkeyEngine Java BSD
Jogre
Jogre
JOGRE is the acronym for "Java Online Gaming Real-time Engine".JOGRE is a Java based client/server game engine and API created by Bob Marks. It is used for the easy creation and execution of online real time games....

Java GPL
Kobold2D Objective-C
Objective-C
Objective-C is a reflective, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.Today, it is used primarily on Apple's Mac OS X and iOS: two environments derived from the OpenStep standard, though not compliant with it...

Lua MIT Supports cross-development of iOS and Mac OS X apps. Based on Cocos2d
Cocos2d
Cocos2d is an open source 2D game framework. There are two versions, one written in Python and one written in Objective-C targeting iOS.-iOS port:...

 with integrated Lua, Wax, cocos2d-iphone-extensions, cocos3d, Box2D, Chipmunk, Chipmunk SpaceManager, Google AdMob and ObjectAL libraries.
Lavgine C++ Lua Script Free for Non-Commercial, Commercial 3D hardware acceleration, OpenAL 3D audio, multi-threaded, 2D animated physics objects, network module, automatically refreshes changed assets, no DLL dependencies*.
Lightweight Java Game Library
Lightweight Java Game Library
The Lightweight Java Game Library is an open source Java software library for computer game developers.LWJGL exposes high performance cross-platform libraries commonly used in developing software games and multimedia titles...

Java Minecraft
Minecraft
Minecraft is a sandbox-building independent video game written in Java originally by Swedish creator Markus "Notch" Persson and now by his company, Mojang, formed from the proceeds of the game. It was released as an alpha on May 17, 2009, with a beta version on December 20, 2010...

BSD
Linderdaum Engine C++ LinderScript MIT Android and Windows. Prototyping can be done on Windows. Supports advanced 3D features on Android (mesh skinning, raycasting)
LÖVE2d C++ Lua Zlib/libpng
Maratis C++ Lua Save Our Souls zlib/libpng/GPL Editor based environment. Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS and Android support.
Moai SDK C++ Lua Lua Crimson Steam Pirates CPAL iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS X and Chrome browser compatible
Nebula Device C++ Java, Python Lua, Tcl/Tk
OpenSceneGraph
OpenSceneGraph
OpenSceneGraph is an open source 3D graphics application programming interface, used by application developers in fields such as visual simulation, computer games, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modeling....

C++ Flight Gear OpenSceneGraph Public License
OpenSimulator
OpenSimulator
OpenSimulator is an open-source server platform for hosting virtual worlds. It is compatible with the client for Second Life and can host alternative worlds with differing feature sets with multiple protocols.-Features:...

C# LSL
Linden Scripting Language
Linden Scripting Language, or LSL, is the programming language used by residents of Second Life, a virtual world by Linden Lab.LSL has a syntax similar to C and allows objects to control the behavior of in-world objects of Second Life from the Internet via email, XML-RPC, and most recently, HTTP...

BSD
ORX
ORX
Orx is an open source, portable, lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and easy to use 2D-oriented game engine written in C.It currently runs on Windows , Linux, Mac OS X , iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad and Android.-General information:Orx provides a complete game creation framework including a 3D scene...

C/C++ zlib
Zlib License
The zlib License is a permissive free software license which defines the terms under which the zlib and libpng software libraries can be distributed. It is also used by other free software packages....

3D accelerated, supports Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

, iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

, iPad
IPad
The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...

 and Android
Panda3D
Panda3D
Panda3D is a game engine which includes graphics, audio, I/O, collision detection, and other abilities relevant to the creation of 3D games.Panda3D is open source and, as of May 28, 2008, free software under the revised BSD license. Releases prior to May 28, 2008 are not considered Free Software...

Python C++ Python Toontown Online
Toontown Online
Disney's Toontown Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by The Walt Disney Company and billed as the first such game intended for kids and families. Designed for children as young as seven, but teens and adults also play this, the depth of the game's content has drawn...

, Pirates of the Caribbean Online
Pirates of the Caribbean Online
Pirates of the Caribbean Online, sometimes shortened to Pirates Online or POTCO, is a MMORPG , created by the Walt Disney Company. It is based on the film series and theme park attraction of the same name...

BSD
PixelLight
PixelLight
PixelLight is an open source, cross-platform 3D application framework written in C++. It currently supports Windows, Linux and Android. PixelLight has a highly plugin driven architecture with plugins for many third-party middleware such as scripting, sound and physics engines, input devices etc...

C++ Lua LGPL http://www.pixellight.org
PLIB
PLIB
PLIB is a suite of Open Source portable computer game libraries, originally written by Steve Baker in 1997 and licensed under the LGPL.PLIB includes sound effects, music, a complete 3D engine, font rendering, a simple windowing library, a game scripting language, a GUI, networking, 3D math library...

C++ LGPL
Quake engine
Quake engine
The Quake engine is the game engine that was written to power 1996's Quake, written by id Software. It featured true 3D real-time rendering and is now licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License ....

C QuakeC
QuakeC
QuakeC is an interpreted language developed in 1996 by John Carmack of id Software to program parts of the computer game Quake. Using QuakeC, a programmer is able to customize Quake to great extents by adding weapons, changing game logic and physics, and programming complex scenarios...

Quake GPL Full game engine, first true 3D id tech engine.
Retribution Engine
Retribution Engine
The Retribution Engine is a 3D game engine that is used to make first person shooter games. The engine is open source and is supplied with a suite of editing tools that allow the development of customized games...

C++ GPL
Sge2d
Sge2d
Sge2d is a open source platform independent MIT licensed framework for programming 2d games in C/C++. It aims for low dependencies and easy portability...

C MIT
Sphere
Sphere (program)
Sphere is a cross-platform, open source computer program designed primarily to make role-playing games similar to those found on the SNES and Sega Genesis consoles. Sphere was originally coded by Chad Austin...

C++ JavaScript
Spring C++
C++
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...

C
C (programming language)
C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....

, C++
C++
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...

, Java/JVM, Lua, Python
Python (programming language)
Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

Lua Balanced Annihilation, Zero-K GPL
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

RTS
Real-time strategy
Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....

, simulated events, OpenGL
OpenGL
OpenGL is a standard specification defining a cross-language, cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics. The interface consists of over 250 different function calls which can be used to draw complex three-dimensional scenes from simple primitives. OpenGL...

Storymoto JavaScript
JavaScript
JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....

JavaScript
JavaScript
JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....

JavaScript
JavaScript
JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....

Adslife MIT Runs on any JavaScript-enabled browser, client side. Full sources on GitHub
Stratagus
Stratagus
Stratagus was a free cross-platform real-time strategy game engine used to build other games. It is written in C with the configuration language being Lua. SDL, gzip and bzip2 are among the external libraries used.-History:...

C Lua GPL
Name Primary programming language
Programming language
A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....

Bindings
Language binding
In computing, a binding from a programming language to a library or OS service is an API providing that service in the language.Many software libraries are written in systems programming languages such as C or C++...

Cross-platform SDL
Simple DirectMedia Layer
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform, free and open source multimedia library written in C that presents a simple interface to various platforms' graphics, sound, and input devices....

2D oriented Scripting
Scripting language
A scripting language, script language, or extension language is a programming language that allows control of one or more applications. "Scripts" are distinct from the core code of the application, as they are usually written in a different language and are often created or at least modified by the...

Notable games License Notes and references

Commercial

  • Alamo — the engine used in Star Wars: Empire at War
    Star Wars: Empire at War
    Star Wars: Empire at War is a 2006 real-time strategy game developed by Petroglyph Games and published by LucasArts. Set between Episode III and Episode IV, it focuses on the fledgling struggle between the Empire and the Rebels. It uses Petroglyph's game engine Alamo. The most recent patch was...

     by Petroglyph Games.
  • Aurora Engine — For Role-playing game
    Role-playing game
    A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

    s.
  • BigWorld
    BigWorld
    BigWorld is an Australian company formed in 1999 that develop and license a Massively Multiplayer Online Game and Virtual World engine. In 2007, BigWorld was recognized as the industry leader in UK's Develop magazine-Games:...

     — Server, client and development tools for the development of MMOG for games that run on Windows, Xbox 360
    Xbox 360
    The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

    , and PS3.
  • Bork3D Game Engine
    Bork3D Game Engine
    The Bork3D Game Engine is a C++ game engine developed by Bork 3D LLC for use on mobile device platforms, primarily targeting iPhone and iPad. The engine has a modest user base, and several iOS games have announced their use of it, most notably from Bioroid Studios, Simiula, and Bork 3D itself.The...

     — A cross-platform game engine mostly for iPhone and iPad.
  • BRender — A real-time 3D graphics engine for computer games, simulators and graphic tools.
  • Byond — A 2D engine for making top-down, isometric, or side scroller games for Windows.
  • C4 Engine
    C4 Engine
    The C4 Engine is a computer game engine developed by Terathon Software that is used to create 3D games and other types of interactive virtual simulations for Windows , Mac OS X , and PlayStation 3...

     — A cross-platform game engine developed by Terathon Software.
  • Cafu Engine
    Cafu Engine
    The Cafu Engine is a game engine developed by Carsten Fuchs. It is portable across platforms and currently runs under Windows and Linux, with plans to be adapted to Mac OS...

     — A game engine with development tools for creating multiplayer, cross-platform, real-time 3D games and applications.
  • Chrome Engine
    Chrome Engine
    Chrome Engine is a 3D game engine developed by Techland. The current version, Chrome Engine 5, supports Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.Chrome Engine evolved through over nine years of development...

     -- A 3D WYSIWYG game engine developed by Techland
    Techland
    Techland is a Polish video game developer, founded in 1991 by Paweł Marchewka. They are most famous for developing Call of Juarez, a Western-themed first-person shooter, released for Microsoft Windows in 2006, and later ported to Xbox 360 in June 2007...

    .
  • Coldstone game engine
    Coldstone game engine
    The Coldstone game engine is a game creation suite for the Macintosh developed by Beenox Studios and Ambrosia Software.-Functionality:Although the Coldstone game creation software itself only runs on the Mac OS platform, it is capable of compiling stand-alone games that run on the Mac OS 9...

     — An old game creation suite for Macintosh/Windows to create role-playing or adventure-style games.
  • Construct 2 - A Windows based environment that currently exports to HTML5. No programming required in its visual editor.
  • Corona SDK — A cross-platform, Lua-based game engine that can build games to the iPhone
    IPhone
    The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

    , iPad
    IPad
    The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...

    , or Android devices from the same set of code.
  • CPAL3D — Complete game creation tools with scene editor, IDE and text server.
  • CryEngine
    CryENGINE
    CryEngine is a game engine used for the first-person shooter computer game Far Cry. It was originally developed by Crytek as a technology demo for Nvidia and, when the company saw its potential, it was turned into a game....

    , CryEngine 2, CryEngine 3 — The game engine used for the first-person shooter computer game Far Cry
    Far Cry
    Far Cry is a first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek Studios from Germany and published by Ubisoft on March 23, 2004, for Microsoft Windows. Far Cry sold 730,000 units within four months of release. It received positive reviews upon release...

    . CryEngine 2 is a new generation engine developed by Crytek
    Crytek
    Crytek is a German video game company founded in 1999 by three Turkish brothers: Cevat, Avni and Faruk Yerli. Crytek's main headquarters are in Frankfurt, Germany, with five other studios in Kiev, Budapest, Nottingham, Sofia and Seoul. The company is best known for developing the game Far Cry and...

     to create the FPS game Crysis
    Crysis
    Crysis is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek , published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, and released in November 2007. It is the first game of a trilogy. A separate game entitled Crysis Warhead was released on September 12, 2008, and follows similar...

    . CryEngine 3 is a new generation engine developed by Crytek
    Crytek
    Crytek is a German video game company founded in 1999 by three Turkish brothers: Cevat, Avni and Faruk Yerli. Crytek's main headquarters are in Frankfurt, Germany, with five other studios in Kiev, Budapest, Nottingham, Sofia and Seoul. The company is best known for developing the game Far Cry and...

     to create the FPS game Crysis 2
    Crysis 2
    Crysis 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek, published by Electronic Arts and released in North America, Australia, and Europe in March 2011 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360...

    .
  • Crystal Tools — Square Enix
    Square Enix
    is a Japanese video game and publishing company best known for its console role-playing game franchises, which include the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest series, and the action-RPG Kingdom Hearts series...

    's proprietary seventh generation game engine.
  • Dunia Engine
    Dunia Engine
    The Dunia Engine is a game engine designed by Kirmaan Aboobaker while working at Crytek. It is based on the CryEngine but was heavily modified by the Ubisoft Montréal development team for use in Far Cry 2. A reworked and modified version of the Dunia Engine is used for James Cameron's Avatar: The...

     — Engine (heavily modified version of the CryEngine
    CryENGINE
    CryEngine is a game engine used for the first-person shooter computer game Far Cry. It was originally developed by Crytek as a technology demo for Nvidia and, when the company saw its potential, it was turned into a game....

    ) made especially for Far Cry 2
    Far Cry 2
    Far Cry 2 is an open world first-person shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It was released on October 21, 2008 in North America and on October 23, 2008 in Europe and Australia. It was made available on Steam on October 22, 2008...

     by Ubisoft Montreal
    Ubisoft Montreal
    Ubisoft Montreal is a Canadian video game developer owned by French publisher Ubisoft.Ubisoft's North American studio is located in Montreal, Quebec...

    .
  • Earth-4 Engine — The graphics engine used in Earth 2160
    Earth 2160
    Earth 2160 is a real time strategy computer game, the third in the "Earth" series and developed by Reality Pump studios. It is a direct sequel to Earth 2150...

  • Ecstacy Engine — 3D, The graphics engine used in Slave Zero
    Slave Zero
    Slave Zero is a 1999 Infogrames video game for the Sega Dreamcast and Windows ME .-Story:Taking place 500 years in the future, the game tells the story of Lu Chen, a sinister world overlord more commonly known as the SovKhan, who rules the Earth from a massive complex called Megacity S1-9...

  • Electron engine — Developed by Obsidian Entertainment
    Obsidian Entertainment
    Obsidian Entertainment is an American video game developer founded in 2003 after the disestablishment of Interplay Productions' Black Isle Studios, for PC and console systems...

     for their game Neverwinter Nights 2
    Neverwinter Nights 2
    Neverwinter Nights 2 is a computer role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Atari. It is the sequel to BioWare's Neverwinter Nights, based on the Dungeons & Dragons pencil and paper fantasy role-playing game...

    , based on the Aurora engine.
  • Elflight Engine
    Elflight Engine
    Elflight Engine is a high-performance 3D scene-graph based games engine designed for the Web. It supports games in a web browser, a window or full-screen. It can download game resources when needed in the background over the Net to allow games to start up quickly when first played...

     — Cross-platform 3D streaming game engine designed from the ground up for use over the Web. Games can play in a web browser window, in a separate window or full-screen. Java and OpenGL based.
  • Enigma Engine
    Enigma Engine
    The Enigma engine is a game engine developed by Nival Interactive that is used in several real-time tactics video games, including their own games, Blitzkrieg and Blitzkrieg 2...

     — A real-time tactics
    Real-time tactics
    Real-time tactics or RTT is a subgenre of tactical wargames played in real-time simulating the considerations and circumstances of operational warfare and military tactics...

     game engine, used in Blitzkrieg
    Blitzkrieg (computer game)
    Blitzkrieg is a real-time tactics computer game based on the events of World War II. The game allows players to assume the role of commanding officer during the battles of World War II that occurred in Europe and North Africa. Each country has its respective historically correct military units...

    .
  • Esperient Creator
    Esperient Creator
    Esperient Creator is an interactive 3D application authoring tool for the creation of visual computing applications including video games, simulations, real-time interactive presentations and 3D user interfaces for either standalone or web based delivery....

     — A very powerful 3D modeler and engine, used world wide for training, simulation, architecture, and games. Built-in Scripting, C/C++, CScript, or Lisp, Shader Editor, import 50+ 3D formats.
  • Euphoria — This is a biomechanical Ragdoll engine by NaturalMotion
    NaturalMotion
    NaturalMotion is a software company with offices in Oxford and San Francisco. Founded in November 2001 as a spin-off of Oxford University, the company specialises in creating animation technology for the game and film industries.-Technology:...

    .
  • Freescape
    Freescape
    thumb|The Freescape logo.The Freescape engine was an early 3D game engine used in games such as 1987's Driller.-History:Developed in-house by Incentive Software, Freescape is considered to be one of the first proprietary 3D engines to be used in computer games, although the engine was not used...

     (1986) — Incentive Software; One of the first proprietary 3D game engines, used in Driller and 3D Construction Kit
    3D Construction Kit
    3D Construction Kit , also known as 3D Virtual Studio, is a utility for creating 3D worlds in Freescape. Developed by Incentive Software and published by Domark, it was released in 1991 on multiple platforms. The game originally retailed for £24.99 in the United Kingdom...

    .
  • Frostbite Engine
    Frostbite Engine
    Frostbite is a game engine developed by EA Digital Illusions CE, creators of the Battlefield series.DICE has used both versions of the engine for their in-house games Battlefield: Bad Company, Battlefield 1943, and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Frostbite 1.5 has also been used for the multiplayer...

     — Game engine used for the next-gen title Battlefield: Bad Company 2
    Battlefield: Bad Company 2
    Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by the Swedish firm EA Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, iOS and Mac OS X systems. It is a direct sequel to Battlefield: Bad Company and is part of the...

    .
  • Game Creator — A 2D game engine for iPhone
    IPhone
    The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

     developed by DjEsh. Drag and drop only, no need for coding.
  • Gamebryo
    Gamebryo
    Gamebryo is a game engine, originally from Numerical Design Limited , and the successor to NDL's NetImmerse engine.Since the creation of Gamebryo, NDL merged into Emergent Game Technologies...

     — Cross-platform game middleware for professional developers, notable for its rapid development.
  • GameSalad
    GameSalad
    GameSalad Creator is an authoring tool developed by GameSalad, Inc. aimed primarily at non-programmers for composing games in a drag-and-drop fashion, utilizing visual editors and a behavior-based logic system...

     — A 2D game engine mostly for the iPhone
    IPhone
    The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

     and an Apple Safari Web-plugin developed by Gendai Games
    Gendai Games
    GameSalad, Inc., formerly Gendai Games , is an American computer software company that designs and develops authoring tools and web services for game creation. Their flagship product is GameSalad Creator, a game creation system for creative professionals that enables non-programmers to create 2D...

    . Has a visual programming interface to aid rapid development.
  • Gamestudio
    Gamestudio
    3D GameStudio or 3DGS is a commercial 3D computer game development system which allows the users to create 3D games and other virtual reality applications, and publish them royalty-free...

     — A 2D and 3D game engine for beginners. Uses the Gamestudio
    Gamestudio
    3D GameStudio or 3DGS is a commercial 3D computer game development system which allows the users to create 3D games and other virtual reality applications, and publish them royalty-free...

     development system and the lite-C programming language.
  • Gideros Mobile - A 2D mobile development environment and game engine for iPhone, iPad and Android.
  • Glacier, Glacier 2 — Developed by IO Interactive
    IO Interactive
    IO Interactive is a Danish video game development company currently owned by Square Enix. The company was founded in September 1998 by the Reto-Moto development group. To date their most popular franchise is the critically acclaimed Hitman series...

     and used for the Hitman
    Hitman (series)
    Hitman is a stealth game series developed by the Danish company IO Interactive. The series is available on PC as well as several video game consoles, including the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Xbox 360. The game series has since expanded into a novel, Hitman: Enemy Within written by...

     series of games. Glacier 2 is a new generation engine currently in development for upcoming games.
  • GrimE
    GrimE
    GrimE is an adventure game engine, created by Bret Mogilefsky at LucasArts using the free software scripting language Lua. It was first used for Grim Fandango. Partly based on the Sith engine, GrimE was the successor to SCUMM, preserving some of that engine's features...

     — Used in LucasArts
    LucasArts
    LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s...

     graphical adventure games starting with Grim Fandango
    Grim Fandango
    Grim Fandango is a personal computer game in the graphic adventure genre released by LucasArts in 1998 and primarily written by Tim Schafer. It is the first adventure game by LucasArts to use 3D computer graphics overlaid on pre-rendered, static backgrounds...

    .
  • Hedgehog Engine — Created by the Sonic Team
    Sonic Team
    is a Japanese computer and video game developer established in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan in 1990, originally known as Sega AM8. The Japan-based division is also known as G.E. Department Global Entertainment. The studio has collaborated with several in-house Japanese studios as well as other American-based...

     with the capability of rendering high quality graphics at high speed. It's used in Sonic Unleashed
    Sonic Unleashed
    Sonic Unleashed , is a video game and the 11th installment in the Sonic the Hedgehog series developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for multiple platforms...

     (Xbox 360
    Xbox 360
    The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

     and PlayStation 3
    PlayStation 3
    The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

     versions) and in Sonic Generations
    Sonic Generations
    is a 2011 platform video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, produced by Sonic Team for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and Nintendo 3DS...

     (Xbox 360
    Xbox 360
    The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

     and PlayStation 3
    PlayStation 3
    The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

     versions).
  • HeroEngine
    HeroEngine
    HeroEngine is a 3D game engine and server technology platform originally developed by Simutronics Corporation specifically for building MMO-style games...

     — 3D game engine by Simutronics
    Simutronics
    Simutronics is an American online games company whose products include GemStone IV and DragonRealms. It was founded in 1987 by David Whatley, with husband and wife Tom & Susan Zelinski...

     for building MMOs
    Massively multiplayer online game
    A massively multiplayer online game is a multiplayer video game which is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of players simultaneously. By necessity, they are played on the Internet, and usually feature at least one persistent world. They are, however, not necessarily games played on...

     in a live collaborative environment.
  • HPL Engine 2 — Used in Frictional Games
    Frictional Games
    Frictional Games is an independent video game company located in Helsingborg, Sweden. The developer comprises a small core team and is led by Thomas Grip and Jens Nilsson. Certain key roles such as Music and Narrative Design are performed by external staff like Mikko Tarmia and Tom Jubert,...

     survival horror games. Earlier versions are free software
    Free software
    Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

    .
  • id Tech 5
    Id Tech 5
    id Tech 5 is the latest proprietary game engine being developed by id Software, currently still being actively upgraded, and follows its predecessors, id Tech 1, 2, 3 and 4. It is a major advancement over id Tech 4. The engine was first demonstrated at the WWDC 2007 by John D...

     — in development by id Software as engine for their games, esp. Doom 4 and Rage, and other ZeniMax titles.
  • IMUSE — Specifically designed to synchronize music with visual action.
  • Infinity Engine
    Infinity Engine
    Infinity Engine is a game engine which allows the creation of isometric computer role-playing games. It was originally developed by BioWare for a prototype RTS game codenamed Battleground Infinity, which was ultimately re-engineered to become the first installment of the Baldur's Gate series...

     — Allows the creation of isometric computer role-playing games.
  • INSANE
    INSANE (engine)
    INSANE is a proprietary INteractive Streaming ANimation Engine developed at LucasArts, primarily by programmer/game designer Vincent Lee...

     — Used in LucasArts
    LucasArts
    LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s...

     games.
  • IW Engine
    IW engine
    The IW engine is a game engine developed by Infinity Ward for the Call of Duty series and has recently become the main engine for the James Bond video games. The engine itself is proprietary with inclusion of GtkRadiant by id Software...

     — Created by Infinity Ward
    Infinity Ward
    Infinity Ward is an American video game developer. Infinity Ward is responsible for the development of the video game Call of Duty and four other installments in the Call of Duty franchise....

     its used in Call of Duty
    Call of Duty
    Call of Duty is a first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision in 2003. It is the first game in a series with the same name. The game simulates the infantry and combined arms warfare of World War II. The game is based on the Quake III: Team Arena engine...

     series.
  • Jade engine
    Jade engine
    The Jade engine is a game engine developed and used by Ubisoft. The engine was originally developed by a development team on Ubisoft Montpellier, including Michel Ancel, for their critically acclaimed video game Beyond Good & Evil, the main character of which, Jade, shares its name...

     — Developed by Ubisoft
    Ubisoft
    Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....

    , originally for Beyond Good & Evil
    Beyond Good & Evil (video game)
    Beyond Good & Evil is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Ubisoft and released in late for the GameCube, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, and Xbox platforms. The story follows the adventures of Jade, an investigative reporter and martial artist, who works with a resistance...

    .
  • Jedi
    Jedi (engine)
    The Jedi Engine is a game engine developed primarily by Ray Gresko for LucasArts. While not a true 3D engine, it is historically significant in moving forward the 2.5D first-person shooter genre with its ability to support a three-dimensional environment with no limitations in the 3rd dimension...

     — A game engine developed by LucasArts for Star Wars: Dark Forces
    Star Wars: Dark Forces
    Star Wars: Dark Forces is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 1995 for DOS and Apple Macintosh, and in 1996 for the PlayStation. The storyline within the Dark Forces is set in the Star Wars fictional universe and follows the character Kyle...

     and Outlaws.
  • K2 Engine — An engine used in Heroes of Newerth and Savage2 by S2 Games
    S2 Games
    S2 Games is a video game developer founded by Marc "Maliken" DeForest, based in Rohnert Park, California.They also have a development location in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Their first project , Savage: The Battle for Newerth, was released in the Summer of 2003...

    .
  • Kaneva Game Platform — A MMOG engine for independent and professional game development.
  • Kinetica
    Kinetica
    Kinetica is a futuristic racing game for the PlayStation 2. It was the first game to use the Kinetica game engine which would be used for Sony's runaway hit franchises, most notably Jak & Daxter, Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper and God of War....

     — A game engine developed by Sony
    Sony
    , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

     for PlayStation 2
    PlayStation 2
    The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...

    .
  • KRASS Engine — A game engine developed for Aquanox
    AquaNox
    AquaNox is a series of submarine-based shooter/simulation games set in the distant future. The collection includes AquaNox, AquaNox 2: Revelation and AquaNox: The Angel's Tears...

     and Aquanox 2 by Massive Development
    Massive Development
    Massive Development was a computer and video game developer based in Mannheim, Germany. The company was active between 1994 and 2005 and is primarily known for their submarine Video games Archimedean Dynasty and AquaNox.- History :...

    . Used also in Spellforce
    Spellforce
    SpellForce: The Order of Dawn is a combination Real-time strategy and Role-playing game developed by German game developers Phenomic and released on 16 December 2003 in Europe and 11 February 2004 in North America....

  • Leadwerks Engine
    Leadwerks Engine
    The Leadwerks Engine is a 3D game engine powered by OpenGL 2.1. It was designed by Leadwerks Software. Leadwerks Engine 2.0 made its debut in The Game Creators May Newsletter on May 1, 2008. The engine makes use of the Newton Game Dynamics SDK 2.0 for physics, and OpenAL and EAX for sound and 3D...

     — Leadwerks Engine is a 3D engine for rendering, sound, and physics in real-time games and simulations.
  • Lemon Engine — Lemon Engine is a modular set of libraries for all aspects of game development across all major platforms.
  • Lithtech
    Lithtech
    Lithtech is a game engine which was initially developed by Monolith Productions in collaboration with Microsoft. Monolith later formed a separate company, LithTech Inc., to deal with further advancements of the engine technology and currently, after a change of its corporate identity, LithTech Inc...

     Jupiter Ex — Developed by Monolith Productions
    Monolith Productions
    Monolith Productions is a Kirkland, Washington-based computer game developer. Monolith is also known for the development of the graphical game engine Lithtech, which has been used for most of their games...

     to create the game F.E.A.R.
  • LyN engine
    LyN engine
    LyN engine is a video game engine developed by Ubisoft. It's designed to effectively scale on both old-gen and newer-generation hardware. The first game released featuring this engine was Rabbids Go Home and will serve many forthcoming games...

     — Developed by Ubisoft
    Ubisoft
    Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....

    , originally for Rabbids Go Home
    Rabbids Go Home
    Rabbids Go Home, known in France as Les Lapins Crétins : La Grosse Aventure , is a "comedy-adventure" video game developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and published by Ubisoft for the Wii and Nintendo DS. The game was released in North America on November 1, 2009, in Australia on November 5, 2009 and...

     and Beyond Good & Evil 2
    Beyond Good & Evil 2
    Beyond Good & Evil 2 , or BG&E2, is the sequel to the 2003 video game Beyond Good & Evil, currently in development by Ubisoft Montpellier and published by Ubisoft. Michel Ancel, the creator of the original game, is back as lead designer of the sequel...

    .
  • M.U.G.E.N
    M.U.G.E.N
    M.U.G.E.N is a freeware 2D fighting game engine designed by Elecbyte, written in C which originally used the Allegro library...

     — 2D Fighting Engine, created by Elecbyte made for any fighting game genres.
  • Maker3D — 3D RPG engine with editor, scripting, large built-in content, character creation, team management and battle system with modern graphics
  • Medusa — A C++ 3D game engine developed by Palestar and used in the DarkSpace
    DarkSpace
    DarkSpace is a massively multiplayer real-time strategy computer game developed by PaleStar. Released in December 2001, DarkSpace involves multiplayer spaceship combat between three player-controlled factions....

     MMO. It features distributed world simulation, single tool version control and asset realisation, cross-platform compatibility and an integrated client/server network system.
  • Monumental Technology Suite
    Monumental games
    Monumental Games is an independent UK video game developer. It was founded by industry veterans Rik Alexander and Rocco Loscalzo in 2005...

     — A MMOG platform, including server and client technology and development / live management tools.
  • MT Framework
    MT Framework
    MT Framework is an exclusive seventh generation game engine built to be used with "all of the Capcom next-generation games" on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 , as commented by Dead Rising, Lost Planet, Devil May Cry 4, and Resident Evil 5. MT stands for "Multi-Thread", "Meta Tools" and "Multi-Target"...

     — Game engine created by Capcom
    Capcom
    is a Japanese developer and publisher of video games, known for creating multi-million-selling franchises such as Devil May Cry, Chaos Legion, Street Fighter, Mega Man and Resident Evil. Capcom developed and published Bionic Commando, Lost Planet and Dark Void too, but they are less known. Its...

     and used for their games on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
  • Multimedia Fusion 2 — A 2D game development system that can compile a Windows executable, Java applet, Flash file, Mac OS X App, or iOS app. Linux and Android runtimes are in development (unconfirmed, needs citation).
  • Multiverse Network
    Multiverse Network
    The Multiverse Network, Inc. is an American startup company creating a network and platform for Massively Multiplayer Online Games and 3D virtual worlds...

     — An MMOG platform, including server, client, and tools. (Free for development and use — revenue sharing upon commercial deployment).
  • Odyssey Engine
    Odyssey Engine
    The Odyssey Engine is a computer game engine developed by BioWare and has exclusively been used to create three dimensional computer role-playing games...

     — Used to create three dimensional computer role-playing games, used in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
    Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
    Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by LucasArts. It was released for the Xbox on July 15, 2003, for Microsoft Windows on November 19, 2003, and on September 7, 2004 for Mac OS X. The Xbox version is playable on Xbox 360 with its...

  • Onyx Engine — Developed by Ubisoft
    Ubisoft
    Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....

  • PhyreEngine
    PhyreEngine
    PhyreEngine is a free to use, cross platform game engine from Sony Computer Entertainment...

     — A cross platform (PC & PS3) graphics engine from Sony Computer Entertainment
    Sony Computer Entertainment
    Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. is a major video game company specializing in a variety of areas in the video game industry, and is a wholly owned subsidiary and part of the Consumer Products & Services Group of Sony...

    .
  • Pie in the Sky
    Pie in the Sky (game engine)
    This article is about the game engine, for other uses see Pie in the sky.Pie in the Sky is a 2.5D and 3D first person shooter engine most popular in the mid to late 1990s by Pie in the Sky Software, also known as the 3D Game Creation or 3D Game Creation System engine...

     — Used in two internal games by Pie in the Sky Software and then in the 3D Game Creation System and the games made with it.
  • Q (game engine)
    Q (game engine)
    Q is a 3D engine / tech development platform / interoperability standard developed by the London based developer Qube Software.- Overview :Qube has made considerable claims for Q. Its lead designers, Servan Keondjian and Doug Rabson have pointed to Q’s architecture as being its key innovation.Q is...

     — A fully pluggable, extensible and customisable framework and tools from Qube Software
    Qube Software
    Qube Software is a London based company specialising in advanced 3D technology. It was founded in 1998 by Servan Keondjian and Doug Rabson who created the Reality Lab renderer and who subsequently played a leading role at Microsoft turning it into Direct3D....

     for PC, Wii, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, PSP, iPhone etc. created by the team behind Direct3D
    Direct3D
    Direct3D is part of Microsoft's DirectX application programming interface . Direct3D is available for Microsoft Windows operating systems , and for other platforms through the open source software Wine. It is the base for the graphics API on the Xbox and Xbox 360 console systems...

    .
  • RelentENGINE
    RelentENGINE
    RelentENGINE is a next-generation first-person shooter game engine developed by Itlit Software for the video game Relent: The Fallen. The RelentENGINE technology was developed with the aim of bridging the gap between pre-compiled and dynamic shadowing; it focuses on support for massive destroyable...

     — A next-generation FPS engine supporting massive destroyable city environments and realistic vehicle control, makes extensive use of shader model 3.
  • RenderWare
    RenderWare
    RenderWare is a computer and video game middleware from British games developer Criterion Software.-Overview:RenderWare is a 3D API and graphics rendering engine used in video games, Active Worlds, and some VRML browsers...

     — A 3D API and graphics rendering engine.
  • Revolution3D
    Revolution3D
    Revolution3D is a 3D graphics engine developed by VirtualART. It is free for non-commercial and commercial use and uses DirectX 9.0. The project was started in 1998 by Simon Theophil and competed with the engine Truevision3D. Revolution3D can be used with C++, C#, Visual Basic, Java and Python.In...

     — A 3D graphics engine developed by X-Dream Project.
  • RGSS — An engine made by enterbrain to create RPG
    Role-playing game
    A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

    s using RPG Maker XP
    RPG Maker XP
    RPG Maker XP is the PC version in the RPG Maker series of programs developed and published by Enterbrain. It is the first PC version to be officially translated into English and released outside of Japan.-Features:...

    . RGSS2 was used for RPG Maker VX
    RPG Maker VX
    is the latest program from the RPG Maker series. It was developed by Enterbrain and is the latest in the PC RPG Maker series, following its predecessor, RPG Maker XP...

    .
  • RAGE — A game engine created by Rockstar Games
    Rockstar Games
    Rockstar Games is a major video game developer and publisher based in New York City, owned by Take-Two Interactive following its purchase of UK video game publisher BMG Interactive. The brand is mostly known for Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, L.A...

     to power their upcoming video games on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Implemented in Grand Theft Auto 4.
  • RPG Maker — A 2D engine to make top-down and isometric-style role-playing games for Windows.
  • S2 Engine HD — A powerful 3D game engine to produce 3d real time applications and videogames for Windows.
  • SAGE engine
    SAGE engine
    SAGE is a game engine used by Westwood Studios and Electronic Arts for real-time strategy games.The first version of the engine was known as W3D was highly modified version of SurRender 3D engine, developed by Hybrid Graphics Ltd.Westwood used W3D for Emperor: Battle for Dune and updated for...

     — Used to create real-time strategy
    Real-time strategy
    Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....

     games.
  • Scaleform
    Scaleform
    Scaleform Corporation is a developer providing middleware for use in the video game industry. Their most recent software, Scaleform GFx, is a vector graphics rendering engine used to display Adobe Flash-based user interfaces, HUDs, and animated textures for games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X,...

     — A vector graphics rendering engine used to display Adobe Flash-based user interfaces, HUDs, and animated textures for games in PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, and Wii.
  • SCUMM
    SCUMM
    Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion is a scripting language developed at LucasArts to ease development of the graphical adventure game Maniac Mansion....

     engine — Used in LucasArts
    LucasArts
    LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s...

     graphical adventure games.
  • Serious Engine — The engine by Croteam
    Croteam
    Croteam is a video game developer established in Zagreb, Croatia in 1993, initially as a "garage games" company. They only had six employees and four contractors for the development of Serious Sam in 2001.-Company history:...

     used in the epic Serious Sam: The First Encounter and The Second Encounter.
  • Shark 3D
    Shark 3D
    Shark 3D is a middleware from Spinor for computer, video games and realtime 3D applications.-Description:Shark 3D is a middleware for 3D applications and is mainly used in computer games, broadcasting, and industrial simulation. Shark 3D is developed by Spinor.Shark 3D is a complete suite of a tool...

     — A middleware from Spinor for computer, video games and realtime 3D applications.
  • ShiVa
    ShiVa (game engine)
    ShiVa3D is a nextgen 3D game engine with a graphical editor designed to create applications and video games for the Web, Consoles and Mobile devices....

     — A game engine with an authoring tool to produce 3d real time applications for the Web, Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, WebOS, Android, and iPhone.
  • Silent Storm engine
    Silent Storm engine
    The Silent Storm engine is a turn-based tactics game engine developed by Nival Interactive for their video game Silent Storm. The engine was reused for Silent Storm: Sentinels, Night Watch, Hammer & Sickle and Day Watch...

     — A turn-based tactics
    Turn-based tactics
    Turn-based tactics , or tactical turn-based , is a computer and video game genre of strategy video games that through stop-action simulates the considerations and circumstances of operational warfare and military tactics in generally small-scale confrontations as opposed to more strategic...

    /tactical RPG game engine, used in Silent Storm
    Silent Storm
    Silent Storm is a tactical role-playing game for Microsoft Windows, developed by Russian developer Nival Interactive and published by JoWood in 2003. The game is set in World War II Europe. The player commands a team of up to six elite soldiers on the Axis or Allied side, undertaking a variety of...

    .
  • Sith
    Sith (engine)
    The Sith engine is a game engine developed by LucasArts.The game Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II is based on this engine, and its expansion, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith, is based on a slightly updated version....

     — A game engine developed by LucasArts for Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II.
  • Source engine
    Source engine
    Source is a 3D game engine developed by Valve Corporation. It debuted in June 2004 with Counter-Strike: Source and shortly thereafter Half-Life 2, and has been in active development ever since...

     — A game engine developed by Valve Software for Half-Life 2
    Half-Life 2
    Half-Life 2 , the sequel to Half-Life, is a first-person shooter video game and a signature title in the Half-Life series. It is singleplayer, story-driven, science fiction, and linear...

    .The SDK comes with Half Life 2
  • SunBurn XNA Game Engine
    SunBurn XNA Game Engine
    SunBurn XNA Game Engine is an indie game engine that equips developers to create games, simulations, and visualizations. SunBurn’s complete feature se includes forward and deferred rendering, collisions, advanced materials, high dynamic range lighting , bloom, and the SunBurn editor.It can produce...

     — 2D/3D XNA game engine developed by Synapse Gaming
    Synapse Gaming
    Synapse Gaming is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based video game engine developer. It is best known for lighting and rendering technology, integrated into the SunBurn XNA Game Engine and previously, Garage Games' Torque Lighting Kit....

    .
  • Infernal Engine — Created by Terminal Reality
    Terminal Reality
    Terminal Reality is a video game development and production company based in Lewisville, Texas. Founded in 1994 by ex-Microsoft employee Mark Randel and former Mallard Software general manager Brett Combs, Terminal Reality develops a variety of games including racing games , 3D action games , and...

    , provides rendering, physics, sound, AI, and metrics for game development. Used in several games such as Ghostbusters: The Video Game
    Ghostbusters: The Video Game
    Ghostbusters: The Video Game is a 2009 cross-platform action game based on the Ghostbusters film franchise. Terminal Reality developed the Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 versions, while Red Fly Studio developed the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Wii versions, and Zen Studios...

    , Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars
    Mushroom Men
    The Mushroom Men video games were developed for Nintendo on the Nintendo DS and Wii systems. Both games were developed by Red Fly Studio and published by Gamecock Media Group. The story revolves around a civil war between Mushroom Men in a human world...

    , Bass Pro Shops: The Strike
    Bass Pro Shops: The Strike
    Bass Pro Shops: The Strike is a fishing game developed by Piranha Games and published by XS Games for the Wii, Windows, and Xbox 360 in 2009.-External links:*****...

     and Roogoo: Twisted Towers.
  • Torque Game Engine Advanced — A next-generation 3D game engine support modern GPU hardware and shaders.
  • Torque Game Engine
    Torque Game Engine
    The Torque Game Engine, or TGE, is a 3D computer game engine originally developed by Dynamix for the 2001 FPS Tribes 2. The Torque engine and its many derivative products are available for license from GarageGames, a company formed by many members of the Tribes 2 team at Dynamix...

     — A modified version of a 3D computer game engine originally developed by Dynamix
    Dynamix
    Dynamix, Inc. was an American developer of computer games from 1984 to 2001, best known for their flight simulator, Red Baron, the Front Page Sports series, Betrayal at Krondor, and their online multiplayer game, Tribes.-History:...

     for the 2001 FPS Tribes 2
    Tribes 2
    -Legacy:On November 20, 2002, Sierra released an update for Tribes 2. This update contained two new game types, new maps and updates to address several issues. Sierra, which is now part of Vivendi SU, licensed the franchise to Irrational Games for a third installment; Tribes: Vengeance was...

    .
  • TOSHI
    TOSHI
    TOSHI is a sixth generation cross-platform game engine designed by Blue Tongue Entertainment.The engine allows simultaneous multi-sku development across all next generation consoles, as well as PC...

     — A fourth generation cross platform game engine designed by Blue Tongue Entertainment
    Blue Tongue Entertainment
    Blue Tongue Entertainment Pty. Ltd. was an Australian video game developer founded in 1995. It was acquired by THQ on November 17, 2004, and remained an internal development studio of THQ until its closure in August 2011...

    .
  • Truevision3D
    Truevision3d
    Truevision3D is a 3D commercial 3D engine first created by Sylvain Dupont in 1999.The Truevision3D engine is written in Visual Basic 6 and C++ and layered on top of the Microsoft DirectX API, currently supporting DirectX version 8. The engine is accessible from a number of programming languages...

     — A 3D game engine using the DirectX
    DirectX
    Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with Direct, such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay,...

     API.
  • Unigine
    Unigine
    Unigine Engine is a proprietary cross-platform computer graphics middleware, developed by Unigine Corp. It is used as either a game engine or as an engine for virtual reality systems, serious games and visualization. The most popular Unigine-powered product is .The strongest feature of Unigine is...

     — All-in-one 3D engine for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, Android, iOS. Supports DirectX9/10/11 and OpenGL/OpenGL ES.
  • Vengeance engine
    Vengeance engine
    The Vengeance Engine is a game engine based on Unreal Engine 2/2.5. It was created by Irrational Games to make Tribes: Vengeance.- Vengeance Engine :The Vengeance Engine, also known as the Tribes: Vengeance engine had several new features:...

     — A video game engine based on the Unreal Engine 2/2.5
  • Vicious Engine
    Vicious Engine
    The Vicious Engine is a game engine offering functionality for rendering, sound, networking, physics, game play scripting, and lighting. It is developed by Vicious Cycle Software, and was first released in January 2005.- History and availability :...

     — Available for Microsoft Windows, Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox, and Sony PlayStation Portable
  • Virtools
    Virtools
    Virtools is a software developer and vendor, created in 1993 and owned by Dassault Systèmes since July 2005.-History:Virtools was a company founded 1993. They offered a development environment to create 3D real-time applications and related services, targeted at system integrators, game studios and...

     — A 3D engine combined with high-level development framework, used for game prototyping and rapid developments. Available for Windows, Macintosh, Xbox, PSP. Can publish standalone or for the 3DVia Web Player browser plugin.
  • Vision Engine 8
    Vision Engine 8
    Vision is a multi-platform 3D game engine that was first launched in 2003 by the Germany-based middleware developer, Trinigy. Now in its eighth version, the Vision Engine is currently available for Microsoft Windows , Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, iOS , Sony's PlayStation Vita, and most...

     — A cross-platform game engine, developed by Trinigy
    Trinigy
    Trinigy is an independent company focusing on the development of advanced 3D graphics technology with its headquarters based in Southern Germany, with offices in Austin, TX and Seoul, South Korea....

    . Used in games such as: Arcania: A Gothic Tale, The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom
    The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom
    The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom is a real time strategy and city-building video game developed by Blue Byte Software and published by Ubisoft. It was released on March 23, 2010 for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It is the seventh game in The Settlers series.-Gameplay:Paths to a Kingdom features...

    , Dungeon Hero
    Dungeon Hero
    Dungeon Hero was to have been a hack-and-slash role-playing video game developed by Firefly Studios and published by Gamecock Media Group. It had been in development for several years and had been scheduled to be released in 2009 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360...

    , Cutthroat
    Cutthroat
    Cutthroat is a three-player pocket billiards game, played on a pool table using cue sticks. Each player is assigned a set of numbered balls. The object is to be the last player with at least one ball still on the table...

    , and Three Investigators
    Three Investigators
    The Three Investigators is an American juvenile detective book series first published as "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators" but also expanded in Germany. It was created by Robert Arthur, Jr., who believed using a famous figure such as movie director Hitchcock would attract attention....

    .
  • Visual3D.NET Game Engine
    Visual3D.NET Game Engine
    Visual3D Game Engine is a Game Engine with a Toolset written in C#/.NET for XNA to run on Microsoft Windows and with upcoming Xbox360 support.-Overview:...

     — All-in-One 3D game engine and toolset, fully written in C#/.NET for Windows A browser player is roadmapped for v1.1.
  • WGAF — The game engine developed by Guild Software
    Guild Software
    Guild Software is a small computer game developer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin founded in 1993. So far, Guild Software's only product is Vendetta Online, a first-person MMORPG that uses their in-house WGAF game engine.-Staff:...

     which powers their MMORPG Vendetta Online
    Vendetta Online
    Vendetta Online is a twitch-based, science fiction massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Guild Software for the operating systems Android, Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows...

    .
  • X-Ray — The game engine developed by GSC Game World
    GSC Game World
    GSC Game World is a Kiev-based computer game developer. Founded in 1995 in Kiev, Ukraine, it released titles such as Cossacks: European Wars, American Conquest, Alexander, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat...

     which powers their FPS series, "S.T.A.L.K.E.R".
  • XnGine
    XnGine
    XnGine was a 3D engine developed by Bethesda Softworks.In 1997 support for higher resolutions was added and in 1998 it was made compatible with 3dfx graphics cards....

     — Developed by Bethesda Softworks
    Bethesda Softworks
    Bethesda Softworks, LLC, is an American video game company. A subsidiary of ZeniMax Media, the company was originally based in Bethesda, Maryland and eventually moved to their current location in Rockville, Maryland...

    , one of the first true 3D engines.
  • Zillions of Games
    Zillions of Games
    Zillions of Games is a commercial General Game Playing system developed by Jeff Mallett and Mark Lefler in 1998. The game rules are specified with S expressions, Zillions rule language. It was designed to handle mostly abstract strategy board games or puzzles. After parsing the rules of the game,...

     — used to develop games that happen on a grid, like chess

Freeware

These engines are available for free use, but without the source code being available under an open source license. Many of these engines are commercial products which have a free edition available for them:
  • Adventure Game Studio
    Adventure Game Studio
    Adventure Game Studio is a free software development tool that is primarily used to create graphical adventure games. It is aimed at intermediate-level game designers, and combines an Integrated development environment for setting up most aspects of the game with a scripting language to process...

     — Mostly used to develop third-person pre-rendered
    Pre-rendered
    Pre-rendering is the process in which video footage is not rendered in real-time by the hardware that is outputing or playing back the video. Instead, the video is a recording of a footage that was previously rendered on a different equipment...

     adventure game
    Adventure game
    An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...

    s, this engine is one of the most popular for developing amateur adventure games.
  • dim3
    Dim3
    Dim3, also known as Dimension 3, is a freeware open-source 3D game engine for Mac OS X created by Brian Barnes. It has been chosen as a staff pick for OS X development software by Apple...

     — Freeware 3D javascript engine for the Mac (although finished games are cross platform).
  • DX Studio
    DX Studio
    DX Studio is a complete integrated development tool for the creation of 3D video games, simulations or real-time interactive applications for either standalone, Web Based, Microsoft Office or Visual Studio use.-Development:...

     — A freeware 3D game engine with complete tools for 3D video game development. Upgrading to paid licenses would unlock extra features.
  • Game Maker
    Game Maker
    GameMaker is a Windows and Mac IDE originally developed by Mark Overmars in the Delphi programming language. It is currently developed and published by YoYo Games, a software company in which Overmars is involved...

     — A free game engine oriented towards beginners and people that do not want to learn how to program. A paid upgrade can unlock some 3D features.
  • Unity
    Unity (game engine)
    Unity is an integrated authoring tool for creating 3D video games or other interactive content such as architectural visualizations or real-time 3D animations. Unity's development environment runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, and the games it produces can be run on Windows, Mac, Xbox 360,...

     — An open-ended 3D game/interactive software engine for web, Windows, and Mac OS X. Upgrading to paid licenses can additionally enable support for the iPhone, Android, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, and the Xbox 360.
  • Unreal Engine
    Unreal Engine
    The Unreal Engine is a game engine developed by Epic Games, first illustrated in the 1998 first-person shooter game Unreal. Although primarily developed for first-person shooters, it has been successfully used in a variety of other genres, including stealth, MMORPGs and RPGs...

     — Considered one of the most popular game engines in the top market. The free edition, called UDK (a binary release of the engine), allows you to use the engine for commercial purposes under specific terms.
  • CryEngine 3 — CryEngine 3 is a new generation engine developed by Crytek to create the FPS game Crysis 2. The engine has been released recently, with a license model that is similar as offered by the UDK engine.
  • Visual Pinball
    Visual Pinball
    Visual Pinball is a freeware video game engine for pinball tables and similar games e.g. pachinko machines. The software is composed of an editor and the simulator part itself. It runs on Microsoft Windows...

     - A pinball game engine.
  • World Builder
    World Builder
    World Builder is an authoring system for point-and-click adventure games. It was released in 1986 by Silicon Beach Software and had already been used for creating Enchanted Scepters in 1984. In 1994 World Builder along with Course Builder, SuperCard and HyperDA was cited as the reason Appleton was...

     — A classic Mac OS game engine.
  • Wintermute Engine
    Wintermute Engine
    Wintermute Engine is a set of software tools and a runtime interpreter primarily designed for creating and running graphical adventure games.-History:...

     — A runtime and development tools for creating 2D and 2.5D point'n'click adventure games (Windows) . A "lite" Version is also available, but without the 3D Actor function (Windows, MAC, Linux)

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Adventure Game Studio
Adventure Game Studio
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Chzo Mythos
Chzo Mythos
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Soviet Unterzoegersdorf
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The Blackwell Series
The Blackwell Series
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Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator is the main title of a planned series of eight amateur adventure games made by Francisco "Grundislav" Gonzalez with freeware adventure game engine Adventure Game Studio. To date, there have been seven games released in the series, each game being a separate...

Ben Croshaw
Ben Croshaw
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monochrom
Monochrom
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Wadjet Eye Games
Dave Gilbert (game designer)
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Anvil Assassin's Creed II
Assassin's Creed II
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Ubisoft
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BigWorld
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Twin Skies
Twin Skies
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Stargate Worlds
Stargate Worlds
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Meteor Games
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Numen: Contest of Heroes
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First Reality
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CryEngine
CryENGINE
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Far Cry
Far Cry
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Aion: The Tower of Eternity
Crytek
Crytek
Crytek is a German video game company founded in 1999 by three Turkish brothers: Cevat, Avni and Faruk Yerli. Crytek's main headquarters are in Frankfurt, Germany, with five other studios in Kiev, Budapest, Nottingham, Sofia and Seoul. The company is best known for developing the game Far Cry and...

 
NCsoft
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CryEngine 2 Crysis
Crysis
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Crysis Warhead
Crysis Warhead
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Blue Mars
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Entropia Universe
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Crytek
Crytek
Crytek is a German video game company founded in 1999 by three Turkish brothers: Cevat, Avni and Faruk Yerli. Crytek's main headquarters are in Frankfurt, Germany, with five other studios in Kiev, Budapest, Nottingham, Sofia and Seoul. The company is best known for developing the game Far Cry and...

 
MindArk
MindArk
MindArk is a Swedish software company. It created Entropia Universe , a popular MMORPG-style online virtual universe. In partnership with American companies Nextpert and Neverdie Studios, it will launch the next generation 3D virtual world, Next Island in 2010...

 
Avatar Reality
Avatar Reality
Avatar Reality is a Honolulu-based game studio founded by Henk B. Rogers and Kazuyuki Hashimoto in December 2006. Rogers with Alexy Pajitnov is known for creating Tetris and introducing it to the world and especially to US markets, and Kazuyuki is best known for developing the game Final Fantasy...

 
Paleo Entertainment 
Reloaded Studios
CryEngine 3 Crysis 2
Crysis 2
Crysis 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek, published by Electronic Arts and released in North America, Australia, and Europe in March 2011 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360...

 
ASTA: The War of Tears and Winds
ASTA: The War of Tears and Winds
ASTA: The War of Tears and Winds, known also as Project E:ST: The Fantasy of Asia is an upcoming MMORPG created by Polygon Games under the operation of NHN Corporation of South Korea...

 
ArcheAge
ArcheAge
ArcheAge is a medieval fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game in development by Korean game developer XL Games.-History:...

 
Cabal 2 
Class 3
Undead Labs
Undead Labs is a Seattle, Washington-based game development studio developing a zombie-survival game for Xbox 360. It was established by Jeff Strain in 2009, and has since brought artists and programmers who have worked on titles like Guild Wars and Diablo to their team.On 3 February 2011 Undead...

 
Forged by Chaos 
Nexuiz
Nexuiz (2011 video game)
Nexuiz is a upcoming first-person shooter developed by IllFonic for Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It uses Cry Engine 3 and it is based on free game called Nexuiz , developed by AlienTrap Software. Nexuiz is a fast paced arena first person shooter in futuristic, Victorian style...

 
Ryse
Ryse
Ryse is a first person hack and slash video game in development by Crytek and to be published by Microsoft Studios exclusively for the Xbox 360.-Gameplay:...

 
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 is the upcoming sequel to Sniper: Ghost Warrior. It is under development by City Interactive for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.-Development:...

 
Tour Golf Online 
Warface
Warface (video game)
Warface is an online video game being developed by Crytek. Warface is a free-to-play multiplayer military shooter. The game is exclusive to the PC and is powered by CryEngine 3. Being developed in Kiev and co-produced by Crytek Seoul and Crytek Frankfurt, it was originally aimed for a release in...

Crytek
Crytek
Crytek is a German video game company founded in 1999 by three Turkish brothers: Cevat, Avni and Faruk Yerli. Crytek's main headquarters are in Frankfurt, Germany, with five other studios in Kiev, Budapest, Nottingham, Sofia and Seoul. The company is best known for developing the game Far Cry and...

 
Polygon Games 
XL Games 
ESTsoft
ESTsoft
Founded in 1992, ESTsoft is a South Korean application software development company. Its software ranges from desktop to business software for enterprises.-Products:...

 
Undead Labs
Undead Labs
Undead Labs is a Seattle, Washington-based game development studio developing a zombie-survival game for Xbox 360. It was established by Jeff Strain in 2009, and has since brought artists and programmers who have worked on titles like Guild Wars and Diablo to their team.On 3 February 2011 Undead...

 
Panzar Studio 
Xaviant 
IllFonic 
City Interactive
City Interactive
City Interactive is an international publisher and the largest Polish developer of computer and video games for platforms including Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. The company was created in 2002 by combining a publishing house with two computer game developer studios. The...

 
OnNet
Crystal Tools Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII
is a console role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. Released in 2009 in Japan and 2010 in North America and PAL regions, it is the thirteenth major installment in the Final Fantasy series...


Final Fantasy Versus XIII
Final Fantasy Versus XIII
is an upcoming action role-playing game published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 3 and currently being developed by the company's 1st Production Department. Alongside Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, and Final Fantasy Type-0, the game is a part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis Final...


Final Fantasy Agito XIII
Final Fantasy Agito XIII
is a video game published by Square Enix for the PlayStation Portable and it is developed by the company's 1st Production Department. The game was originally announced with the name ; "Agito" roughly meaning "to put in motion" in Latin. Director Hajime Tabata said he liked the Agito title, but the...


Final Fantasy XIV
Final Fantasy XIV
, also known as Final Fantasy XIV Online, is the fourteenth installment in the Final Fantasy series. It was released in September 2010 for Microsoft Windows, with a PlayStation 3 port in development. The game is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and is developed and published by...

Square Enix
Square Enix
is a Japanese video game and publishing company best known for its console role-playing game franchises, which include the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest series, and the action-RPG Kingdom Hearts series...

Dunia Engine
Dunia Engine
The Dunia Engine is a game engine designed by Kirmaan Aboobaker while working at Crytek. It is based on the CryEngine but was heavily modified by the Ubisoft Montréal development team for use in Far Cry 2. A reworked and modified version of the Dunia Engine is used for James Cameron's Avatar: The...

Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2 is an open world first-person shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It was released on October 21, 2008 in North America and on October 23, 2008 in Europe and Australia. It was made available on Steam on October 22, 2008...

 
James Cameron's Avatar: The Game
Ubisoft Montreal
Ubisoft Montreal
Ubisoft Montreal is a Canadian video game developer owned by French publisher Ubisoft.Ubisoft's North American studio is located in Montreal, Quebec...

Essence Engine
Essence Engine
Essence Engine is a game engine developed by Relic Entertainment for video game Company of Heroes.-Features:The Essence Engine features many new graphical effects, including High Dynamic Range Lighting, dynamic lighting & shadows, advanced shader effects and normal mapping...

Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes is a real-time strategy computer game developed by Relic Entertainment. It was released on September 12, 2006, and was the first title to make use of the Games for Windows label. A standalone expansion, Opposing Fronts, was released on September 25, 2007. A second standalone...

 
Opposing Fronts
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts is the stand alone expansion pack to Company of Heroes, a real-time strategy game for computers running the Windows operating system. It was announced on April 5, 2007. Opposing Fronts was developed by Canadian-based RTS developer Relic Entertainment, and...

 
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2
Relic Entertainment
Relic Entertainment
Relic Entertainment is a Canadian game development company that specializes in 3D real-time strategy games and has released a number of unique PC games. Relic specializes in creative, visually appealing, and combat intense RTS games.-History:...

Europa Engine Europa Universalis
Europa Universalis
Europa Universalis is a grand strategy video game released on March 14, 2000 by Paradox Interactive and distributed in North America by Strategy First...

 
Hearts of Iron
Hearts of Iron
Hearts of Iron is a grand strategy computer game developed by Paradox Interactive and published by Strategy First, set in the years 1936-1948. In the game you can control any one nation as World War II unfolds. It was released for Windows-compatible PCs in 2002. A Macintosh version was also...

Paradox Entertainment
Paradox Entertainment
Paradox Entertainment owns rights to many intellectual properties, the most famous of which is Conan the Barbarian as created by pulp author Robert E. Howard and expanded upon by many other authors over the years. Other properties include Bran Mak Morn, Kull, Solomon Kane, Mutant, Mutant...

Gamebryo
Gamebryo
Gamebryo is a game engine, originally from Numerical Design Limited , and the successor to NDL's NetImmerse engine.Since the creation of Gamebryo, NDL merged into Emergent Game Technologies...

Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga 
Dark Age of Camelot
Dark Age of Camelot
Dark Age of Camelot is a 3D medieval fantasy MMORPG, released on October 10 2001 in North America and in Europe shortly after through it's partner GOA. It is still running today recently celebrating its 10th anniversary....

 
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is a single-player action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks and the Take-Two Interactive subsidiary 2K Games...

 
Fallout 3
Fallout 3
Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game released by Bethesda Game Studios, and the third major installment in the Fallout series. The game was released in North America, Europe and Australia in October 2008, and in Japan in December 2008 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360...

 
Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout: New Vegas is a first person action role-playing video game in the Fallout series developed by Obsidian Entertainment, and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game is based in a post-apocalyptic environment in and around Las Vegas, Nevada...

Larian Studios 
Mythic Entertainment
Mythic Entertainment
BioWare Mythic is a computer game developer in Fairfax, Virginia which is most widely recognized for developing the 2001 massively multiplayer online role-playing game Dark Age of Camelot...

 
Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks, LLC, is an American video game company. A subsidiary of ZeniMax Media, the company was originally based in Bethesda, Maryland and eventually moved to their current location in Rockville, Maryland...

 
Bethesda Game Studios 
Obsidian Entertainment
Obsidian Entertainment
Obsidian Entertainment is an American video game developer founded in 2003 after the disestablishment of Interplay Productions' Black Isle Studios, for PC and console systems...

GoldSrc
GoldSrc
GoldSrc, or Goldsource, is the retronym used internally by Valve Software to refer to the heavily modified Quake engine that powers their science fiction first-person shooter Half-Life ....

Half-Life 
Gunman Chronicles
Gunman Chronicles
Gunman Chronicles or Half-Life: Gunman is a futuristic first-person shooter video game originally created as a mod by the now defunct Rewolf Software. Gunman Chronicles was originally a Quake deathmatch mod named Gunmanship 101, then it was moved to Quake II's engine before becoming a Half-Life mod...

Valve
Valve Corporation
Valve Corporation is an American video game development and digital distribution company based in Bellevue, Washington, United States...

 
Rewolf Software
Rewolf Software
Rewolf Software, also known as Rewolf Entertainment, was a game development studio established in Utah by Herbert Flower in 1996...

HeroEngine
HeroEngine
HeroEngine is a 3D game engine and server technology platform originally developed by Simutronics Corporation specifically for building MMO-style games...

Hero's Journey (video game) 
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Star Wars: The Old Republic, abbreviated as TOR or SWTOR, is an upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game based in the Star Wars universe. Currently in development by BioWare Austin and a supplemental team at BioWare Edmonton, the game was first announced on October 21, 2008, at an...

Simutronics
Simutronics
Simutronics is an American online games company whose products include GemStone IV and DragonRealms. It was founded in 1987 by David Whatley, with husband and wife Tom & Susan Zelinski...

 
Bioware
BioWare
BioWare is a Canadian video game developer founded in February 1995 by newly graduated medical doctors Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk, and Augustine Yip. BioWare is currently owned by American company Electronic Arts...

HPL Engine
HPL Engine
The HPL Engine is a 3D game engine created by Frictional Games. The engine, named after the initials of horror author H. P. Lovecraft, was started in 2004, as a thesis job for a 2D platform game "Energetic", released in 2005. The functionality for 3D games was added later, which culminated in...

Penumbra: Overture
Penumbra: Overture
Penumbra: Overture is the first in a series of episodic first-person adventure games developed by Swedish developer Frictional Games. It was originally intended as the first episode of a trilogy. With the announcement of the second episode, Penumbra: Black Plague, it was stated that the second game...

 
Penumbra: Black Plague
Penumbra: Black Plague
Penumbra: Black Plague is the second installment of the Penumbra series of episodic computer games developed by Swedish developer Frictional Games. The story continues from the previous episode, Penumbra: Overture, showing the protagonist Philip moving away from the abandoned mine setting of the...

 
Penumbra: Requiem
Penumbra: Requiem
Penumbra: Requiem is an expansion pack to the game Penumbra: Black Plague by Frictional Games.- Gameplay :Like the previous games, Requiem is an exploration-based adventure game that takes place from a first-person perspective and final installment of the main series...

 
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a survival horror video game by Frictional Games, who previously developed the Penumbra series. Released for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms, the game features an unarmed protagonist exploring a dark and foreboding castle, while avoiding monsters and other...

Frictional Games
Frictional Games
Frictional Games is an independent video game company located in Helsingborg, Sweden. The developer comprises a small core team and is led by Thomas Grip and Jens Nilsson. Certain key roles such as Music and Narrative Design are performed by external staff like Mikko Tarmia and Tom Jubert,...

id Tech 4 Doom 3
Doom 3
Doom 3 is a science fiction horror video game developed by id Software and published by Activision. An example of the first-person shooter genre, Doom 3 was first released for Microsoft Windows on August 3, 2004. The game was later adapted for Linux, as well as being ported by Aspyr Media for Mac...


Quake 4
Quake 4
Quake 4 is the fourth title in the series of Quake first-person shooter computer games. The game was developed by Raven Software and published by Activision. Raven Software has collaborated with id Software, the creators and historical developers of preceding Quake games...


Prey
Prey (video game)
Prey is a first-person shooter video game developed by Human Head Studios , and published by 2K Games. The Xbox 360 version was ported by Venom Games. The game was initially released in North America and Europe on 11 July 2006...


Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a first-person shooter video game, and is the follow-up to the 2005 title Quake 4. It is also the first game in the series to be rated T by the ESRB...


Wolfenstein
id software
Id Software
Id Software is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...


Raven Software
Raven Software
Raven Software is an American video game developer. The company was founded in 1990 by brothers Brian and Steve Raffel. In 1997, Raven made an exclusive publishing deal with Activision and was subsequently acquired by them...


Human Head Studios
Human Head Studios
Human Head Studios is a computer game development company located in Madison, Wisconsin.It was founded in October 1997 by a group of six developers formerly from Raven Software: Chris Rhinehart, Paul MacArthur, Shane Gurno, Ben Gokey, James Sumwalt, and Ted Halsted—later joined by game producer Tim...


Splash Damage
Splash Damage
Splash Damage is an independently-owned British game development company that specializes in multiplayer first-person shooter games. The studio is best known as the creator of the Enemy Territory franchise for id Software.-History:...

Infernal Engine Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Ghostbusters: The Video Game is a 2009 cross-platform action game based on the Ghostbusters film franchise. Terminal Reality developed the Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 versions, while Red Fly Studio developed the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Wii versions, and Zen Studios...


Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars
Mushroom Men
The Mushroom Men video games were developed for Nintendo on the Nintendo DS and Wii systems. Both games were developed by Red Fly Studio and published by Gamecock Media Group. The story revolves around a civil war between Mushroom Men in a human world...


Bass Pro Shops: The Strike
Bass Pro Shops: The Strike
Bass Pro Shops: The Strike is a fishing game developed by Piranha Games and published by XS Games for the Wii, Windows, and Xbox 360 in 2009.-External links:*****...


Roogoo: Twisted Towers
Terminal Reality
Terminal Reality
Terminal Reality is a video game development and production company based in Lewisville, Texas. Founded in 1994 by ex-Microsoft employee Mark Randel and former Mallard Software general manager Brett Combs, Terminal Reality develops a variety of games including racing games , 3D action games , and...


Threewave Software
Threewave Software
Threewave Software is a videogame developer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are best-known for the development of Threewave CTF, an early Capture the Flag mod for Quake developed by Michael Goodhead and his mod group. Defined as an independent studio, the company has taken on...


Escalation Studios
Streamline Studios
Streamline Studios
Streamline Studios is an independent outsourcing and game developing studio. It was founded in 2001 in Hilversum, the Netherlands.-History:Streamline Studios worked on Gunman Chronicles , Unreal Tournament 2004, Saint's Row, Gears of War, Unreal Tournament 3 among others.Black Hole Recordings, an...


Namco Bandai Games
Namco Bandai Games
is an arcade, mobile and home video game developer and publisher based in Japan which is the product of a merger between the video game development divisions of Bandai and Namco. Namco Bandai Games is a wholly owned subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings and specializes in production and sales of...


Red Fly Studio
Wideload Games
Wideload Games
Wideload Games is an American game developer located in Chicago, Illinois.It was founded in 2003 by Alexander Seropian—the co-founder of Bungie and head behind the games Halo: Combat Evolved, Myth, and Marathon—and 6 other former Bungie Studios employees 3 years after Bungie's acquisition by...


Piranha Games
Piranha Games
Piranha Games Inc. is a Canadian computer game developer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company was founded by two members Russ Bullock President and Executive Producer and Bryan Ekman, VP and Creative Director...


SpiderMonk Entertainment
High Voltage Software
High Voltage Software
High Voltage Software is an independent game development company located at Illinois' Hoffman Estates. Established in 1993, it now employs approximately 95 staff members. Red Eye Studios, a motion capture facility, is a wholly owned subsidiary of HVS...

Infinity Engine
Infinity Engine
Infinity Engine is a game engine which allows the creation of isometric computer role-playing games. It was originally developed by BioWare for a prototype RTS game codenamed Battleground Infinity, which was ultimately re-engineered to become the first installment of the Baldur's Gate series...

Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate is a computer role-playing game developed by BioWare and released in 1998 by Interplay Entertainment. The game takes place in the Forgotten Realms, a high fantasy campaign setting, using modified Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition rules...


Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn is a computer role-playing game developed by BioWare and released on September 26, 2000. The game is the sequel to Baldur's Gate, and, opening only a few months after the events of the earlier game, continues the story of the player character, whose unique heritage...


Planescape: Torment
Planescape: Torment
Planescape: Torment is a computer role-playing game developed for Windows by Black Isle Studios and released on December 12, 1999 by Interplay Entertainment. It takes place in Planescape, an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy campaign setting...


Icewind Dale
Icewind Dale
Icewind Dale is a computer role-playing game developed for Windows by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay Entertainment. Released on June 30, 2000, it takes place in the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms campaign setting, and is based on the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition...


Icewind Dale II
Icewind Dale II
Icewind Dale II is a role-playing video game developed by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay Entertainment, released on August 27, 2002. Like its 2000 predecessor Icewind Dale, the game is set in the Forgotten Realms fantasy setting in the Icewind Dale region...

Bioware
BioWare
BioWare is a Canadian video game developer founded in February 1995 by newly graduated medical doctors Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk, and Augustine Yip. BioWare is currently owned by American company Electronic Arts...


Black Isle Studios
Black Isle Studios
Black Isle Studios was a division of the computer and video game developer and publisher Interplay Entertainment. Black Isle Studios was a division that developed computer role-playing games, and also published several games from other developers. It was based in Orange County, California, USA. The...

Iron Engine
Iron Engine
Iron Engine is a game engine developed by Ironclad Games and is used in the PC game Sins of a Solar Empire. At the moment, the engine only supports DirectX 9.0c effects, not DirectX 10 or 11.-Features:...

Sins of a Solar Empire
Sins of a Solar Empire
Sins of a Solar Empire is a science fiction real-time strategy computer game developed by Ironclad Games and published by Stardock Entertainment for Microsoft Windows operating systems...

Ironclad Games
Ironclad Games
Ironclad Games is a Canadian PC game developer. The company was founded in 2003 by former employees of Barking Dog Studios/Rockstar Games. Ironclad is located in Burnaby, British Columbia.-Titles:...

Jade engine
Jade engine
The Jade engine is a game engine developed and used by Ubisoft. The engine was originally developed by a development team on Ubisoft Montpellier, including Michel Ancel, for their critically acclaimed video game Beyond Good & Evil, the main character of which, Jade, shares its name...

Beyond Good & Evil
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a third-person action-adventure computer and video game published by Ubisoft. It was released on November 21, 2003 and is a reboot of the landmark video game series Prince of Persia, created by Jordan Mechner in 1989.The Sands of Time, developed internally at...


Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within is a video game and sequel to Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Warrior Within was developed and published by Ubisoft, and released on December 2, 2004 for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Microsoft Windows. It picks up where The Sands of Time left off,...


Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is an action-adventure computer and video game developed and published by Ubisoft Montreal. It was released in December, 2005 in North America for the Xbox, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, and the Nintendo GameCube...


Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is a first person shooter action adventure game based on the 2005 film King Kong...


Rayman Raving Rabbids
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Rayman Raving Rabbids, known in French as , is a spinoff in the Rayman series released by the French company Ubisoft as a Wii launch title. The game consists of over 70 minigames...


TMNT
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 is the second installment of the Rayman Raving Rabbids party franchise, in which the Rabbids attempt to invade Earth and have set up headquarters near a local shopping mall. Players have the option to play as a Rabbid or as Rayman, who has disguised himself as a Rabbid to...


Naruto: Rise of a Ninja
Naruto: The Broken Bond
Naruto: The Broken Bond
Naruto: The Broken Bond is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for the Xbox 360. It was released on November 18, 2008 in North America....


James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (Wii version)
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Wii and PSP versions)
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is a multi-platform video game produced by Ubisoft which was released on May 18, 2010, in North America and on May 20 in Europe. The games mark a return to the storyline started by Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is...

Ubisoft
Ubisoft
Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....

K2 Engine Savage 2
Heroes of Newerth
Heroes of Newerth
Heroes of Newerth is a free-to-play science fantasy, action real-time strategy game developed by S2 Games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The game was heavily inspired by the Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne custom map, Defense of the Ancients and is S2 Games' first game title in the...

S2 Games
S2 Games
S2 Games is a video game developer founded by Marc "Maliken" DeForest, based in Rohnert Park, California.They also have a development location in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Their first project , Savage: The Battle for Newerth, was released in the Summer of 2003...

M.U.G.E.N
M.U.G.E.N
M.U.G.E.N is a freeware 2D fighting game engine designed by Elecbyte, written in C which originally used the Allegro library...

Battle Killer Fighter
Battle Killer Fighter Ultimate
WhItE HaCkEr Community
Cartoon Picture Studio Indo (Lord of D-Geims)
Nebula Device 3 Drakensang: The Dark Eye
Drakensang: The Dark Eye
Drakensang: The Dark Eye is a computer role-playing game developed by Radon Labs. The game was announced on April 21, 2006 by publisher dtp...

Neon Engine
Neon Engine
Ego Game Technology Engine is a video game engine developed by Codemasters....

Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising 
Race Driver Grid
Codemasters
Codemasters
The Codemasters Software Company Limited, or Codemasters is a British video game developer founded by Richard and David Darling in 1986...

Panda3D
Panda3D
Panda3D is a game engine which includes graphics, audio, I/O, collision detection, and other abilities relevant to the creation of 3D games.Panda3D is open source and, as of May 28, 2008, free software under the revised BSD license. Releases prior to May 28, 2008 are not considered Free Software...

Toontown Online
Toontown Online
Disney's Toontown Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by The Walt Disney Company and billed as the first such game intended for kids and families. Designed for children as young as seven, but teens and adults also play this, the depth of the game's content has drawn...


Pirates of the Caribbean Online
Pirates of the Caribbean Online
Pirates of the Caribbean Online, sometimes shortened to Pirates Online or POTCO, is a MMORPG , created by the Walt Disney Company. It is based on the film series and theme park attraction of the same name...


Code3D
MSA's Thermal Enforcer
Full list
Disney
Disney Interactive Media Group
The Disney Interactive Media Group , formerly known as the Walt Disney Internet Group and Disney Interactive Studios, oversees various websites and interactive media owned by The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries....


Disney
Disney Interactive Media Group
The Disney Interactive Media Group , formerly known as the Walt Disney Internet Group and Disney Interactive Studios, oversees various websites and interactive media owned by The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries....


Sim Ops Studios
MSA, Sim Ops Studios
Many
PhyreEngine
PhyreEngine
PhyreEngine is a free to use, cross platform game engine from Sony Computer Entertainment...

Full list on main entry
PhyreEngine
PhyreEngine is a free to use, cross platform game engine from Sony Computer Entertainment...

 
Many
Many
RAGE Midnight Club: Los Angeles
Midnight Club: Los Angeles
Midnight Club: Los Angeles is the fourth video game in the Midnight Club series of racing video games, not including Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix. It was officially announced for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on January 11, 2008 by Rockstar Games. The game was developed by Rockstar San Diego...

 
Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV is a 2008 open world action video game published by Rockstar Games, and developed by British games developer Rockstar North. It has been released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game consoles, and for the Windows operating system...

 
Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis
Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis
Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis is a table tennis simulation video game. The game was initially released on May 26, 2006 for the Xbox 360 with the Wii version being released on October 16, 2007....

 
Red Dead Redemption
Rockstar Games
Rockstar Games
Rockstar Games is a major video game developer and publisher based in New York City, owned by Take-Two Interactive following its purchase of UK video game publisher BMG Interactive. The brand is mostly known for Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, L.A...

Riot Engine
Riot engine
-Games:* Drakan: Order of the Flame* Drakan: The Ancients' Gates* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring* The Suffering* The Suffering: Ties That Bind-External links:...

Drakan: Order of the Flame
Drakan: Order of the Flame
Drakan: Order of the Flame is an action-adventure computer game developed by Surreal Software and published by Psygnosis in 1999. The game follows Rynn, a young woman with extraordinary martial skills, and an ancient dragon Arokh on their quest to free Rynn's younger brother from the evil sorcerer...

 
Drakan: The Ancients' Gates
Drakan: The Ancients' Gates
Drakan: The Ancients' Gates is an action-adventure PlayStation 2 game with RPG elements by Surreal Software. It is the sequel to the 1999 PC game Drakan: Order of the Flame....

 
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 
The Suffering
The Suffering (video game)
The Suffering is a video game developed by Surreal Software and published by Midway Games, released in 2004 for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC. The game featured monster designs by Stan Winston.-Story:...

 
The Suffering: Ties That Bind
The Suffering: Ties That Bind
The Suffering: Ties That Bind is a video game developed by Surreal Software and published by Midway Games, released in 2005 for the Xbox and PlayStation 2 game consoles as well as the PC. The Xbox version of the game is not supported by the Xbox 360's backwards compatibility feature.It is the...

Surreal Software
Surreal Software
Surreal Software is a video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington, USA, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Surreal Software, best known for The Suffering and Drakan series, employed over 130 designers, artists and programmers. Surreal was acquired by Warner Bros....

RPG Maker VX
RPG Maker VX
is the latest program from the RPG Maker series. It was developed by Enterbrain and is the latest in the PC RPG Maker series, following its predecessor, RPG Maker XP...

Eternal Eden
Eternal Eden
Eternal Eden is a 2D Japanese-style RPG created for the PC by Blossomsoft. The game was created using RPG Maker VX. It is the first commercial product created using RPG Maker VX.-Gameplay:...

Blossomsoft
RPG Maker XP
RPG Maker XP
RPG Maker XP is the PC version in the RPG Maker series of programs developed and published by Enterbrain. It is the first PC version to be officially translated into English and released outside of Japan.-Features:...

Aveyond
Amaranth Games
Amaranth Games
Aveyond is a role-playing video game series by Amaranth Games. It is set in a fantasy medieval world in which players attempt to save the world from evil beings, with a number of side quests available. There are seven games thus far in the series: the first two full games, the four "chapter"...

S2Engine HD Power of Destruction 
I'm Not Alone
I'm Not Alone
I'm Not Alone is a Keith Martin's album released on 14 March 2005 by EMI.This album was Martin's second Filipino album.The song "I Don't Wanna Think About It" written & produced by Shawn Stockman was released as a first single...

Profenix
SAGE engine
SAGE engine
SAGE is a game engine used by Westwood Studios and Electronic Arts for real-time strategy games.The first version of the engine was known as W3D was highly modified version of SurRender 3D engine, developed by Hybrid Graphics Ltd.Westwood used W3D for Emperor: Battle for Dune and updated for...

Red Alert 3
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is a 2008 real-time strategy video game developed by EA Los Angeles and published by Electronic Arts. Announced on February 14, 2008, it was released on October 28, 2008 in the United States for Microsoft Windows-based PCs and three days later in Europe. A version for...

 
Generals
Command & Conquer: Generals
Command & Conquer: Generals is a real-time strategy game in the Command & Conquer series. Generals utilizes SAGE...

 
Tiberium Wars
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and published by Electronic Arts for the Windows, Mac OS X and Xbox 360 platforms, and released internationally in March 2007...

 
The Battle for Middle-earth II
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, abbreviated BFMEII, is a real-time strategy video game developed and published by Electronic Arts. It is based on the fantasy novels The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien and its live-action film trilogy adaptation...

EA Los Angeles
EA Los Angeles
EA Los Angeles is a video game developer founded originally in 1995 as DreamWorks Interactive LLC, a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG....

Scimitar
Scimitar (game engine)
Anvil is a game engine created in 2007 by video game developer Ubisoft for use on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.-Under Scimitar name:* Assassin's Creed...

Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed is an award-winning historical third person, stealth action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The bulk of the game takes place during the Third Crusade, with the plot revolving around a sect known as the Secret Order of...

 
Prince of Persia 
Shaun White Snowboarding
Shaun White Snowboarding
Shaun White Snowboarding is a sports video game for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Nintendo DS, iOS, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Xbox 360 systems. It was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It was released on November 14, 2008...

Ubisoft
Ubisoft
Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....

ShiVa3D
ShiVa (game engine)
ShiVa3D is a nextgen 3D game engine with a graphical editor designed to create applications and video games for the Web, Consoles and Mobile devices....

Voodoo Dice
Voodoo Dice
Voodoo Dice is an action puzzle game produced by Exkee and distributed by Ubisoft on Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and WiiWare. The game was released on 27 May 2010. In Voodoo Dice, you roll dice through a path containing barriers, switches, conveyors and trap doors. The game consists of...

 
Pinball Yeah! 
Texting Of The Bread 
Pirate Wings 
Graviton
Graviton
In physics, the graviton is a hypothetical elementary particle that mediates the force of gravitation in the framework of quantum field theory. If it exists, the graviton must be massless and must have a spin of 2...

Stonetrip
Silent Storm engine
Silent Storm engine
The Silent Storm engine is a turn-based tactics game engine developed by Nival Interactive for their video game Silent Storm. The engine was reused for Silent Storm: Sentinels, Night Watch, Hammer & Sickle and Day Watch...

Silent Storm
Silent Storm
Silent Storm is a tactical role-playing game for Microsoft Windows, developed by Russian developer Nival Interactive and published by JoWood in 2003. The game is set in World War II Europe. The player commands a team of up to six elite soldiers on the Axis or Allied side, undertaking a variety of...

 
Silent Storm: Sentinels 
Hammer & Sickle
Hammer & Sickle
Hammer & Sickle is a tactical role-playing game for the PC, co-developed by the Russia-based companies Novik&Co and Nival Interactive and published by CDV in 2005...

 
Night Watch 
Day Watch
Day Watch (video game)
Day Watch is a tactical role-playing game developed by Russian developer Nival Interactive, and based on the Russian novel and the film of the same name. It features a group of Light Others trying to combat the schemes of Day Watch....

 
Heroes of Might and Magic V
Heroes of Might and Magic V
Heroes of Might and Magic V is the fifth installment of the Heroes of Might and Magic turn-based strategy video game series. It was developed by Nival Interactive, under the guidance of franchise-owner Ubisoft...

 
Jagged Alliance 3 (in development)
Nival Interactive
Source engine
Source engine
Source is a 3D game engine developed by Valve Corporation. It debuted in June 2004 with Counter-Strike: Source and shortly thereafter Half-Life 2, and has been in active development ever since...

Half Life 2, Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 is a free-to-play team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Valve Corporation. A sequel to the original mod Team Fortress based on the Quake engine, it was first released as part of the video game compilation The Orange Box on October 10, 2007 for Windows...

, Portal, Portal 2
Portal 2
Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. The sequel to the 2007 video game Portal, it was announced on March 5, 2010, following a week-long alternate reality game based on new patches to the original game...

, Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter video game. It was developed by Turtle Rock Studios, which was purchased by Valve Corporation during development. The game uses Valve's proprietary Source engine, and is available for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and Mac OS X...

, Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2 is a cooperative first-person shooter video game. It is the sequel to Valve Corporation's award-winning Left 4 Dead. The game launched on November 17, 2009, for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in the United States and November 20 in Europe; in 2010, Left 4 Dead 2 was made available to...

, Counter-Strike: Source
Counter-Strike: Source
Counter-Strike: Source is an FPS video game developed by Valve Corporation. It is a complete remake of Counter-Strike using the Source game engine. As in the original, Counter-Strike: Source pits a team of counter-terrorists against a team of terrorists in a series of rounds...

, Day of Defeat: Source
Day of Defeat: Source
Day of Defeat: Source is a team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Valve Corporation. Set in World War II, the game is an updated version of Day of Defeat, moving from the GoldSrc engine used by its predecessor to the Source engine...

, Alien Swarm
Alien Swarm
Alien Swarm is a total conversion mod for Unreal Tournament 2004 created by Black Cat Games and initially released on May 28, 2004. Alien Swarm, version 1.2 was released on September 10, 2004, with the official campaigns, Sigma and Ortega...

 
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 
Sin Episodes
SiN Episodes
SiN Episodes is the title of a series of episodic games for the PC that would have expanded upon the 1998 computer game SiN. A total of nine episodes were planned with only the first one released...

 
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, additionally subtitled Elements on Xbox 360, is a first-person action game developed by Arkane Studios and Floodgate Entertainment. Kuju Entertainment developed the multiplayer mode...

 
Zeno Clash
Zeno Clash
Zeno Clash is a 3D fighting game or brawler, with some elements of a first-person shooter. It is the debut game of Chilean developer ACE Team and uses Valve Corporation's Source engine. It was first released for download through Valve's content delivery service, Steam, on April 21,...


Vindictus / Mabinogi: Heroes 
KOS Secret Operations
Sting: The Secret Operations
Sting: The Secret Operations, also known as Sting: Secret Operations, or Sting Online, and abbreviated to Sting...

Valve
Valve Corporation
Valve Corporation is an American video game development and digital distribution company based in Bellevue, Washington, United States...


Troika Games
Troika Games
Troika Games was a video game developer created by the key people behind the first of the critically acclaimed Fallout series of games. The company was focused on role-playing video games between 1998 and 2005, best known for Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura and Vampire: The Masquerade –...


Ritual Entertainment
Ritual Entertainment
Ritual Entertainment was a computer game software developer established in 1996 by Robert Atkins, Mark Dochtermann, Jim Dosé, Richard 'Levelord' Gray, Michael Hadwin, Harry Miller and Tom Mustaine...


Arkane Studios
Arkane Studios
Arkane Studios is a video game developer based in Lyon, France. It was founded in 1999, and released its first game, Arx Fatalis, in 2002. Arkane Studios opened an Austin, Texas-based office in July 2006....


ACE Team
ACE Team
ACE Team is an independent entertainment software developer based in Santiago, Chile. ACE Team has licensed the Source Engine to develop and distribute its debut game Zeno Clash. Most of the members of the team have experience working on PC games, the Xbox Live Arcade platform and game...


devCat (Nexon
Nexon Corporation
Nexon Co. Ltd. is a South Korean video game developer and publisher of online games and MMORPGs. Founded in Seoul in 1994, Nexon's headquarters is currently based in Tokyo. Nexon provides over 30 games which are serviced in 72 countries globally, reaching 1.14 billion players...

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SunBurn Salty Jim's Putt Putt Island 
AvaGlide
AvaGlide
AvaGlide is avatar-based title, developed by Haiku Interactive and published on the Xbox Live Indie Games channel. It was released in 2010, and praised for its visuals and gameplay.-Gameplay:...

 
UpAway
Synapse Gaming
Synapse Gaming
Synapse Gaming is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based video game engine developer. It is best known for lighting and rendering technology, integrated into the SunBurn XNA Game Engine and previously, Garage Games' Torque Lighting Kit....

 
Haiku Interactive
Munomic 
TGEA Marble Blast Ultra
Marble Blast Ultra
Marble Blast Ultra is a 3D puzzle/action game involving a marble developed by GarageGames. It was released on January 25, 2006 for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade. It is the sequel to Marble Blast Gold. It features 60 brand new levels, enhanced graphics, 2 new power-ups and a multiplayer mode...

 
Fallen Empire: Legions
Fallen Empire: Legions
Legions: Overdrive, formerly Fallen Empire: Legions, was a browser-based sci-fi first-person shooter computer game by GarageGames on InstantAction. Announced officially in January 2007, Legions was being developed as a "spiritual successor" to Tribes, borrowing many gameplay elements from the series...

 
Dreamlords
Dreamlords
.Dreamlords is a MMOG massively multiplayer real-time strategy game, developed by Lockpick Entertainment. Dreamlords is online only, and is free to play with an option to pay for additional benefit...

 
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is an episodic action-adventure video game series based on the webcomic Penny Arcade....

GarageGames
GarageGames
GarageGames is located in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, where it was moved after being acquired by IAC in 2007. As the makers of Torque game development technology, they have provided cross-platform technology and tools since 2000...

 
Lockpick Entertainment
Hothead Games
Hothead Games
Hothead Games is an independent video game developer and publisher based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Hothead is best known for its role-playing/adventure video game series, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, based on the Penny Arcade webcomic...

 

FXLabs Studios
Unigine
Unigine
Unigine Engine is a proprietary cross-platform computer graphics middleware, developed by Unigine Corp. It is used as either a game engine or as an engine for virtual reality systems, serious games and visualization. The most popular Unigine-powered product is .The strongest feature of Unigine is...

OilRush
OilRush
Oil Rush is an upcoming tower defense real-time strategy game being developed by Unigine Corp using their Unigine engine technology. Set in a post-apocalyptic flooded world, the game consists of players fighting over control of the world's remaining oil reserves.This theme has been viewed as...

 
Syndicates of Arkon
Dilogus - The Winds of War
Unigine Corp
Unigine Corp
Unigine Corp is an international software development company with offices in Tomsk, Russia and Prague, Czech Republic. It is well known for developing the Unigine Engine proprietary cross-platform middleware. The company also has a game development team...

 
MCM Online
Digital Arrow
Unity
Unity (game engine)
Unity is an integrated authoring tool for creating 3D video games or other interactive content such as architectural visualizations or real-time 3D animations. Unity's development environment runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, and the games it produces can be run on Windows, Mac, Xbox 360,...

Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall
Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall
Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall is a massively multiplayer online game developed by Cartoon Network and Grigon Entertainment. FusionFall uses the Unity engine as its client technology basis....

 
Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online
Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online
Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online is an online streaming version of the Tiger Woods franchise.Players may take part in single player modes or in tournaments. Tournaments are split into weekly and daily competitions, and are sometimes based on events currently happening in the PGA Tour...


GooBall
GooBall
GooBall is a Mac computer game by Over The Edge Entertainment and published by Ambrosia Software. In the game, the player assumes the role of an alien stranded on Earth. "Goober", as the alien becomes known to the CIA, is stuck inside a life support device made of protoplasm...

 
Global Conflicts: Palestine 
Off-Road Velociraptor Safari
Off-Road Velociraptor Safari
Off-Road Velociraptor Safari is a free downloadable vehicle combat video game released on January 29, 2008 by Flashbang Studios. The game requires the Unity plug-in to run, and can be downloaded from the developers' website...

 
WolfQuest
WolfQuest
WolfQuest is a 3D wildlife simulation video game by the Minnesota Zoo and game developer company Eduweb. The demo was released on October 31, 2007. On December 21, 2007 it was released as a free downloadable game for Macintosh and Windows computers. The official deluxe version was released on April...

 
Dead Frontier
Dead Frontier
Dead Frontier is a free, browser-based MMORPG that is operated by Creaky Corpse Ltd. Neil Yates is the creator and developer of the game as well as an active player with his in-game character known as AdminPwn....

Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....

 
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...


Over The Edge Entertainment 
Serious Games Interactive
Serious Games Interactive
Serious Games Interactive is a games developer located in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is one of the leading developers in Europe for Serious games and game-based learning.- History :...

 
Flashbang Studios
Eduweb
Mikesgames Productions
Unreal Engine 2.x
Unreal Engine
The Unreal Engine is a game engine developed by Epic Games, first illustrated in the 1998 first-person shooter game Unreal. Although primarily developed for first-person shooters, it has been successfully used in a variety of other genres, including stealth, MMORPGs and RPGs...

America's Army
America's Army
America's Army is a series of video games and other media developed by the United States Army and released as a global public relations initiative to help with recruitment. America's Army was conceived by Colonel Casey Wardynski and is managed by the U.S...

 
BioShock
Bioshock
BioShock is a first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston and designed by Ken Levine. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 on August 21, 2007 in North America, and three days later in Europe and Australia. It became available on Steam on August 21, 2007...

 
Exteel
Exteel
Exteel was a third-person shooter game published by NCsoft, a Korean game company, and was developed by NCsoft's . Players controlled giant vehicles called Mechanaughts and fought against the computer, or against other online players, in a variety of gameplay modes. The Mechanaughts were...

 
Lineage II
Lineage II
Lineage II is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game for Microsoft Windows. It is a prequel to Lineage, and is set 150 years before the earlier game. It has become very popular since its October 1, 2003 launch in South Korea, reporting 1,000,918 unique users during the month of March 2007...

 
Killing Floor
Killing Floor (2009 video game)
Killing Floor is a cooperative first-person shooter video game developed and published by Tripwire Interactive. It was first released on May 14, 2009, for Microsoft Windows, and for Mac OS X on May 5, 2010.-Gameplay:...

 
The Chronicles of Spellborn
The Chronicles of Spellborn
The Chronicles of Spellborn was an MMORPG, developed by Spellborn International and distributed by Frogster Interactive, Mindscape and Acclaim Games; set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world...

 
Unreal Tournament 2004
Unreal Tournament 2004
Unreal Tournament 2004, also known as UT2K4 and UT2004, is a futuristic first-person shooter computer game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes...

 
Ragnarok Online 2


2K Games
2K Games
2K is a global developer, marketer, distributor and publisher of interactive entertainment software games. 2K Games is a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, which also owns Rockstar Games notable for the Grand Theft Auto series...

 
NCsoft
NCsoft
NCsoft is a South Korea-based online video game company, which has published massively multiplayer online role-playing games including Lineage, City of Heroes, Wildstar, Exteel, Guild Wars and Aion.-History:...

 
Tripwire Interactive
Tripwire Interactive
Tripwire Interactive is an American game development studio and publisher based in Roswell, Georgia, formed by members of the international team that created the acclaimed Unreal Tournament 2004 mod, Red Orchestra: Combined Arms. Red Orchestra won top prize in the nVidia-sponsored Make Something...

 
Spellborn International
Spellborn International
Spellborn International, registered as Spellborn N.V., is a Dutch video game developer, located in The Hague, the Netherlands. They were developing the MMORPG The Chronicles of Spellborn....

 
Epic Games
Epic Games
Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina. Its most recent success has been the Gears of War series of games, although it is also known for its Unreal Engine technology. It is the parent company of...

 
Gravity Corporation
Unreal Engine 3.x
Unreal Engine
The Unreal Engine is a game engine developed by Epic Games, first illustrated in the 1998 first-person shooter game Unreal. Although primarily developed for first-person shooters, it has been successfully used in a variety of other genres, including stealth, MMORPGs and RPGs...

America's Army 3 
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman: Arkham Asylum is a 2009 action-adventure stealth video game based on DC Comics' Batman developed for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. It was developed by Rocksteady Studios and published by Eidos Interactive in conjunction with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment...

 
Borderlands
Borderlands (video game)
Borderlands is a science fiction based first-person shooter with RPG elements that was developed by Gearbox Software for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It was first revealed in the September 2007 issue of Game Informer magazine...

 
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway
On September 15, 2008, Ubisoft and Gearbox Software announced that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game had gone gold. The Windows version went gold two days later. Playable demos on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace are available now....


BlackSite: Area 51
BlackSite: Area 51
BlackSite: Area 51 is a horror science fiction first-person shooter video game, released for Xbox 360 and Windows on November 12, 2007 in North America, with a PlayStation 3 version coming a few weeks later. The game is mostly unrelated to the 2005 Multi-platform game Area 51. The game was...

 
Gears of War
Gears of War
Gears of War is a military science fiction third-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios...

 
Gears of War 2
Gears of War 2
Gears of War 2 is a third-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games with lead design by Cliff Bleszinski, and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. It is the second installment of the Gears of War series. The game was officially released in North America, Europe and...

 
Unreal Tournament 3 
Rainbow Six Vegas 
Lost Odyssey
Lost Odyssey
is a console role-playing game developed by Mistwalker and feelplus and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. The player takes control of Kaim, a man who has lived for a thousand years and who has no memory of his past...

 
Mass Effect
Mass Effect
Mass Effect is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows by Demiurge Studios. The Xbox 360 version was released worldwide in November 2007 published by Microsoft Game Studios...

 
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 2 is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 on January 26, 2010 and for PlayStation 3 on January 18, 2011...

 
The Last Remnant
The Last Remnant
is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix. The game is directed at both Japanese and Western audiences and had a simultaneous release in Japan, North America and Europe, on November 20, 2008 for the Xbox 360. The game was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows at the end...

 
Medal of Honor: Airborne
Medal of Honor: Airborne
Medal of Honor: Airborne is a World War II first-person shooter computer game and the 11th installment of the Medal of Honor series. It was developed by EA Los Angeles and was released worldwide on the PC and Xbox 360 in September 2007. A PS2 and Wii version was set to be released but was cancelled...

 
Blade & Soul
Blade & Soul
Blade & Soul is a fantasy martial-arts massively multiplayer online role-playing game in development by Korean game developer NCsoft and its Team Bloodlust division.-History:...


Bulletstorm
Bulletstorm
Bulletstorm is a first-person shooter video game developed by People Can Fly and Epic Games, and is published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows...

Eidos Interactive
Eidos Interactive
Eidos Interactive Ltd. is a British video game publisher and is a label of Square Enix Europe. As an independent company Eidos plc was headquartered in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton....


Gearbox Software
Gearbox Software
Gearbox Software, LLC is an American video game development company based in Plano, Texas.-History:Gearbox Software was founded in January 1999 by five members of the content team from the defunct developer Rebel Boat Rocker: Randy Pitchford, Brian Martel, Stephen Bahl, Landon Montgomery, and Rob...


Midway Games
Midway Games
Midway Games, Inc. is an American company that was formerly a major video game publisher. Following a bankruptcy filing in 2009, it is no longer active and is in the process of liquidating all of its assets. Midway's titles included Mortal Kombat, Ms.Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron, Rampage, the...


Epic Games
Epic Games
Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina. Its most recent success has been the Gears of War series of games, although it is also known for its Unreal Engine technology. It is the parent company of...

 
Ubisoft
Ubisoft
Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....

 
Mistwalker
Mistwalker
is a Japanese video game development studio founded by Hironobu Sakaguchi in 2004, with the financial backing of Microsoft. The logo and name were trademarked in 2001...

 
BioWare
BioWare
BioWare is a Canadian video game developer founded in February 1995 by newly graduated medical doctors Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk, and Augustine Yip. BioWare is currently owned by American company Electronic Arts...

 
Square-Enix 
NCsoft
NCsoft
NCsoft is a South Korea-based online video game company, which has published massively multiplayer online role-playing games including Lineage, City of Heroes, Wildstar, Exteel, Guild Wars and Aion.-History:...

 
People Can Fly
People Can Fly
People Can Fly, Sp. z o.o. is a video game developer established in February 2002 by Adrian Chmielarz and based in Warsaw, Poland. Their first video game was Painkiller, but many of their members had already worked on various titles before this. Some members helped create 10 different titles since...

Vision Engine 8
Vision Engine 8
Vision is a multi-platform 3D game engine that was first launched in 2003 by the Germany-based middleware developer, Trinigy. Now in its eighth version, the Vision Engine is currently available for Microsoft Windows , Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, iOS , Sony's PlayStation Vita, and most...

Arcania: A Gothic Tale 
The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom
The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom
The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom is a real time strategy and city-building video game developed by Blue Byte Software and published by Ubisoft. It was released on March 23, 2010 for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It is the seventh game in The Settlers series.-Gameplay:Paths to a Kingdom features...

 
DIZZEL 
Dungeon Hero
Dungeon Hero
Dungeon Hero was to have been a hack-and-slash role-playing video game developed by Firefly Studios and published by Gamecock Media Group. It had been in development for several years and had been scheduled to be released in 2009 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360...

 
Arena Morte 
Cutthroat
Cutthroat
Cutthroat is a three-player pocket billiards game, played on a pool table using cue sticks. Each player is assigned a set of numbered balls. The object is to be the last player with at least one ball still on the table...

JoWood
JoWooD
JoWooD Entertainment AG is an Austrian computer game publisher of video games, founded in 1995 by Andreas Tobler and currently led by Franz Rossler....

, Spellbound
Ubisoft
Ubisoft
Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....

-Blue Byte Studio
Neowiz Corp.
Firefly Studios
Firefly Studios
Firefly Studios is a computer game developer that has offices in London, England and Canton, Connecticut, with a QA department in Aberdeen, Scotland. The Company was formed in August 1999 by Simon Bradbury, Eric Ouellette and David Lester who had worked together on numerous titles such as the...


Frontline Studios
Nitro Games
X-Ray Engine
X-Ray Engine
The X-Ray Engine is an engine created by Kiev-based computer game developer, GSC Game World. Released on the 20th of March in 2007.The engine is used in the first three S.T.A.L.K.E.R...

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl 
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky 
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the sequel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, a first-person shooter computer game by Ukrainian developer GSC Game World. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the third game in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series....

GSC Game World
GSC Game World
GSC Game World is a Kiev-based computer game developer. Founded in 1995 in Kiev, Ukraine, it released titles such as Cossacks: European Wars, American Conquest, Alexander, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat...

4A Engine
4A Engine
The 4A Engine is a graphics middle-ware engine developed by 4A Games for use in their video game Metro 2033, published by THQ. It supports Direct3D APIs 9, 10, and 11, along with NVidia's PhysX, and also NVidia's 3D Vision.-Development:...

Metro 2033 4A Games
4A Games
4A Games is a video game development company in Ukraine, which is known for Metro 2033.-History:The company was formed in Kiev, Ukraine. It was founded by former employees of GSC Game World, a year before the release of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, in particular Oles Shyskovtsov and...

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