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Frog City Software was a video game developer which focused on strategy games, opened in 1995. Frog City Software was a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive until they closed it in 2006. The company was founded by the brothers Bill Spieth and Ted Spieth and by Rachel Bernstein.〔http://www.homeoftheunderdogs.net/company.php?name=Frog+City〕〔http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3013/postmortem_frog_citys_trade_.php?page=1〕 In 2004 Frog City was bought by Gathering, which was itself bought by Take 2 Interactive in 2005.〔http://www.sidecarstudios.com/history.html〕 Frog City was shut down in 2006; it was the fourth game development studio to be shut down by Take-Two Interactive during that year.〔http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10578〕 In April of that year, veterans of Frog City including the founders Ted Spieth, Bill Spieth and Rachel Bernstein〔http://sidecarstudios.com/personnel.html〕 started a new game development studio called Sidecar Studios. In 2007 Sidecar Studios was closed.〔http://sidecarstudios.com/news.html〕 In 2007 Bernstein joined Electronic Arts as a Senior Producer. ==Games developed== *''Imperialism'', 1997. *''Imperialism II: Age of Exploration'', 1999. *''Trade Empires'', 2001. - Used the AXVI game engine, initially designed for ''Pantheon.''〔http://www.sidecarstudios.com/history.html〕 *''Tropico 2: Pirate Cove'', 2003. *''Snow '', 2005. - Strategy game about drug trafficking〔http://www.sidecarstudios.com/history.html〕 that was cancelled in 2006.〔http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10578〕 *''Pantheon'', 1998 - This game, which would use Frog City's new AXVI engine, was a RTS, role-playing video game about the Greek gods, but its development was cancelled in 2000.〔http://www.sidecarstudios.com/history.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frog City Software」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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