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Stellar Stone was a video game developer founded in 2000 and based in Santa Monica, California. The company developed games offshore in Russia and Ukraine, with a small staff and low budget. The co-owner of Stellar Stone was Sergey Titov of TS Group Entertainment, who licensed his engine out to Stellar Stone in exchange for a substantial portion of the company. The company developed a total of eight games, most of which are little-known to the gaming community. Their best-known title was ''Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing'', a 2003 video game considered to be one of the worst games ever made. Most of these games were published by GameMill Publishing. What little coverage the company has received has mostly been negative, generally due to the low quality of ''Big Rigs'' and sometimes their other titles, all of which (sans ''Total Mahjongg and Shanghai'') were covered by Russian reviewing site ''Absolute Games''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Big Rigs from Absolute Games )〕 ==History== Stellar Stone was founded in 2000, in Santa Monica, California. The company was headquartered in the city, with management offices in Los Angeles and London.〔 The company's development teams were stationed offshore in Russia〔 and Ukraine. This allowed Stellar Stone to produce games at the cheap price of at least $US 15,000, compared to costs three to five times higher in price with other European or United States-based developers.〔 All of Stellar Stone's games were built on the Eternity engine. The engine was developed by Sergey Titov of TS Group Entertainment, who licensed it to Stellar Stone in exchange for a "large chunk of the company."〔 According to an interview with Titov on yourewinner.com (a ''Big Rigs'' fansite), the company "want() to do things cheap and () not willing to pay even 200-300K" to create an engine of their own. Despite being the co-owner of Stellar Stone, Titov claims he "didn't have much design and development input or any power to stop (company's games ) from being released."〔 Stellar Stone ceased business in 2006. Referring to the company's members, Titov said "I have no idea where all these people went. Not that I care about it either."〔 Their Internet domain, www.stellarstone.com, is no longer active, and is now commercially cybersquatted. Titov later went on to produce ''The War Z'', another critically panned video game that was removed from Valve Corporation's Steam two days after the release date.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20796455 )〕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「Stellar Stone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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