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Liquid Entertainment is a small American independent video game developer based in Pasadena, California. The studio was co-founded in 1999 by Ed Del Castillo and Michael Grayford,〔(GameSpy: Liquid Entertainment Company Profile )〕 and is led by president Del Castillo and CEO Holly Newman. ==Overview== Liquid’s first game was ''Battle Realms'', published by Crave Entertainment and Ubisoft in November 2001 to critical acclaim.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Battle Realms'' reviews )〕 Battle Realms is a real-time strategy PC game for Windows that features an unconventional approach to resource management and unit development. It was well received by reviewers,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= ''Battle Realms'' reviews )〕 many of whom praised its at-the-time state of the art 3D engine and East Asian-inspired setting and aesthetics but sale numbers were disappointing. It was nominated in the Best PC Strategy game of 2002 by The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''2002 Interactive Achievement Awards'' )〕 but did not win and was chosen for Computer Gaming World's Top 10 Games of E3 2001.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Battle Realms Winter of the Wolf'' announced )〕 ''Battle Realms'' was followed up with a stand-alone expansion pack, ''Battle Realms: Winter of the Wolf'' in April 2002. ''Winter of the Wolf'' was received with less enthusiasm than ''Battle Realms'' by the gaming community;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= ''Battle Realms: Winter of the Wolf'' reviews )〕 some reviewers compared it unfavorably to 2002's blockbuster real-time strategy titles ''Warcraft III'' and ''Age of Mythology''.〔 〕 Since the release of ''Winter of the Wolf'', Liquid has developed two real-time strategy PC games based on intellectual property licenses: In November, 2003, Sierra released ''The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring'', based on Vivendi Universal's license to Tolkien's literary works, and in October 2005 Atari published the Dungeons & Dragons PC game ''Dragonshard''. ''Dragonshard'' has since been re-released on GOG.com. In October 2006, Buena Vista Games released ''Desperate Housewives: The Game'', a life simulation computer game adaptation of the popular television series ''Desperate Housewives''. ''Desperate Housewives: The Game'' won ''PC Gamer'' Adventure Game of the Year for 2007. Many reviewers praised it as a well-written and faithful adaption of the television series although it did not do well commercially.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Desperate Housewives )〕 Liquid’s next game ''Rise of the Argonauts'', released in December 2008 and published by Codemasters, is a Greek mythology-themed action role-playing game for ''Windows'', ''PlayStation 3'' and ''Xbox 360'' that was very poorly received for its technical problems, derivative art direction and repetitive gameplay. In 2011 Sega published Liquid’s second console game for Xbox 360 and PS3 ''Thor: God of Thunder'' that coincided with Marvel Studios’s release of the film ''Thor'' in May 2011. Liquid has also released three casual games for Facebook. They are ''InstantJam'', a music rhythm game for Facebook, ''Deadline Hollywood: Game'' based on the popular Hollywood news blog ''Deadline.com'' by ''Nikki Finke'' and ''Paramount Digital Entertainment'' for Facebook and iOS and ''Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes of Neverwinter'', a turn based strategy game published by Atari on Facebook. On 2014 Liquid Entertainment's president Ed Del Castillo announced on YouTube the development of a new Trading Card Game set in Battle Realms universe. The project was unveiled by the name of Battle Realms Legends but after a failed funding campaign on the global crowdfunding platform Kickstarter and after receiving a bad reception by the gaming community the project was finally put on hold. The game's purpose, according to Liquid Entertainment's announcement, was to make Battle Realms known and to attract new public while at the same time introducing new insights on the game series lore. 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「Liquid Entertainment」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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