Curated playlist
2022 mergers and acquisitions
- GameSpotAmerican video game website
- DestructoidDestructoid began not as a publication but as a plan to get into a party. In March 2006, Yanier Gonzalez, a Cuban-American cartoonist and author, founded a video game blog with one specific goal: securing a press pass to the Electronic…
- Anime LimitedAnime Limited announced in 2020 that it had become the first company outside Japan to release the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise on Blu-ray. The release included the two Evangelion films, Evangelion: Death (True)² and The End of…
- Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics was founded in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 1986, and it began not with investors or a corporate mandate but with the proceeds from a chain of Portland comic book shops called Pegasus Books. Mike Richardson had built that retail…
- Houghton Mifflin HarcourtHoughton Mifflin Harcourt sits in Boston's Financial District today as one of America's largest educational publishers, but its origins trace back to a bookselling shop acquired in 1832. Two men, William Ticknor and John Allen, bought that…
- ToppsTopps began as a chewing gum company founded in 1938 by four brothers named Abram, Ira, Philip, and Joseph Shorin. The name they chose was deliberate: they wanted to be "tops" in whatever field they entered. They could not have guessed…
- HidiveHidive is an American subscription streaming service that delivers Japanese anime to paid subscribers, its name always stylized in capital letters. It launched in June 2017, taking over for a smaller predecessor called Anime Network…
- Anime News NetworkAnime News Network launched in July 1998, when Justin Sevakis built a website to track the then-niche world of anime and manga coming into North America. At the time, reliable English-language coverage of Japanese animation was almost…
- MetacriticAmerican review aggregation website
- Sentai FilmworksSentai Filmworks traces its roots to a single moment: a Houston man named John Ledford watching My Neighbor Totoro at his friend's suggestion. That friend was Matt Greenfield, a Sacramento-born anime fan who ran a local club called Anime…
- DAW BooksDAW Books arrived in 1972 with a single paperback in hand: Spell of the Witch World, a short story collection by Andre Norton. It was the first title from a brand-new publisher, and it announced something that had never quite existed…
- MobyGamesVideo game database
- GameFAQsVideo game website
- Middle-earth EnterprisesMiddle-earth Enterprises holds one of the most commercially contested intellectual properties in modern fiction. Behind every licensed Lord of the Rings board game, video game, film, and figurine sits a single company with the power to say…
- D&D BeyondD&D Beyond arrived on the 15th of August 2017, as a digital companion for Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition. The Financial Times would later call it "the go-to way of showing discontent" with the game's publisher. In January 2023, a leaked…
- EuronewsEuronews went on air on the 1st of January 1993, broadcasting its first bulletin from the Lyon suburb of Écully. Behind that modest debut was a bigger ambition: to give Europe its own answer to the round-the-clock news culture that CNN had…
- Quartz (publication)Quartz, the American business news website, was born in New York City on the 24th of September 2012 with a clear ambition: to serve "business people in the new global economy" through a digitally native outlet built for mobile and tablet…
- The AthleticThe Athletic began in January 2016 as an independent, subscription-only sports website, launched with no advertising and no name recognition outside Chicago. Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann built it. Both were former coworkers at the fitness…
- Denver BroncosOn the 14th of August 1959, minor league baseball owner Bob Howsam received an American Football League charter franchise for Denver. The team played its first game on the 9th of September 1960, defeating the Boston Patriots by a score of…
- ZyngaZynga, the company named after a bulldog, reached ten million daily players in just six weeks after launching FarmVille on Facebook in June 2009. That number is worth sitting with. Not ten million people who had ever heard of the game. Ten…