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2022 mergers and acquisitions
- GameSpotGameSpot's editorial director was fired in 2007 after a 6 out of 10 review.
- DestructoidDestructoid began as a plan to get a press pass to E3. When the video game blog was rejected, it kept going anyway.
- Anime LimitedIn 2020, Anime Limited became the first company outside Japan to release Evangelion on Blu-ray.
- Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics began with the profits of a chain of Portland comic shops. Mike Richardson launched it in 1986.
- Houghton Mifflin HarcourtHoughton Mifflin turned down Julia Child's French cookbook. Alfred A. Knopf published it in 1961 instead.
- ToppsTopps once dumped unsold Mickey Mantle cards into the Atlantic Ocean. Sy Berger rode the garbage boat out himself.
- HidiveHidive took over an older anime streaming service, Anime Network Online, in 2017.
- Anime News NetworkA hacker seized the anime news site Anime News Network in 2017. Staff went live at a backup web address to win it back.
- MetacriticFallout: New Vegas fell one Metacritic point short of its bonus threshold. Obsidian later had layoffs.
- Sentai FilmworksAnime distributor Sentai Filmworks raised $2,370,910 for Kyoto Animation after a 2019 arson attack.
- DAW BooksUntil June 1984, every DAW Books paperback had a yellow spine. The publisher also numbered each book on the cover.
- MobyGamesMobyGames began in 1999 with two friends adding games from their own shelves. It now lists over 300,000 games.
- GameFAQsOn April 1, 2002, GameFAQs renamed itself "GameFAX" as an Xbox-only site. Jeff Veasey's prank drew hate mail.
- Middle-earth EnterprisesA Southampton pub called The Hobbit got a copyright threat in March 2012. Middle-earth Enterprises sent the documents.
- BungieBungie, the video game studio now based in Bellevue, Washington, counts as its first game a Pong clone called Gnop!, which is simply Pong spelled backwards. Alex Seropian wrote it in 1990, nearly twenty years after the original. He gave…
- D&D BeyondBy July 2024, D&D Beyond brought in over half of Dungeons & Dragons profits, Hasbro's CEO said.
- EuronewsEuronews began as Europe's answer to CNN's Persian Gulf War coverage. It first went on air from Lyon on January 1, 1993.
- Quartz (publication)A ChatGPT-powered tool quietly wrote hundreds of daily articles for the website Quartz for a year.
- The AthleticIn 2022, The New York Times Company paid $550 million for the sports site The Athletic.
- Denver BroncosOn the 9th of September 1960, the Denver Broncos won the first game in the history of the American Football League, beating the Boston Patriots 13-10. The Broncos are a professional football team based in Denver, with headquarters in…
- ZyngaZynga, named after a bulldog, hit ten million daily players in six weeks.
- Quantic DreamQuantic Dream is a Paris studio whose founder once called buying one of its games a "political act." David Cage meant that each purchase of Heavy Rain helped prove that more games like it could be made. The studio has developed just five…