Curated category
2022 mergers and acquisitions
- GameSpotGameSpot launched on the 1st of May, 1996, born out of a bet that the internet would change how people talked about video games forever.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- HidiveHidive is an American subscription streaming service that delivers Japanese anime to paid subscribers, its name always stylized in capital letters.
- 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.
- MetacriticMetacritic is an American website that can determine whether a game developer receives a bonus check or gets laid off. That is not a metaphor.
- 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.
- DAW BooksDAW Books arrived in 1972 with a single paperback in hand: Spell of the Witch World, a short story collection by Andre Norton.
- MobyGamesMobyGames opened on the 1st of March 1999, its first entries drawn from the personal game collections of its two founders.
- GameFAQsGameFAQs launched on the 5th of November 1995 as the Video Game FAQ Archive, a site with roughly 10 pages and 100 guides.
- Middle-earth EnterprisesMiddle-earth Enterprises holds one of the most commercially contested intellectual properties in modern fiction. Behind every licensed Lord of the Rings…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The AthleticThe Athletic began in January 2016 as an independent, subscription-only sports website, launched with no advertising and no name recognition outside Chicago.
- Denver BroncosOn the 14th of August 1959, minor league baseball owner Bob Howsam received an American Football League charter franchise for Denver.
- ZyngaZynga, the company named after a bulldog, reached ten million daily players in just six weeks after launching FarmVille on Facebook in June 2009.