Destineer

American umbrella company
  • Destineer Holdings, Inc.
  • Destineer Publishing Corp.
  • Destineer Studios, Inc.
Subsidiaries
  • Atomic Games
  • Bold Games
  • MacSoft
Websitedestineergames.com

Destineer, Inc. was an American umbrella company covering a holding company, a video game publisher, and video game developer based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. The company was founded by Peter Tamte, former executive vice-president of Bungie, in 2001. It developed some original titles and also ported games from Windows to Macs under a number of different brands, including MacSoft and Bold Games.[1][2]

In May 2011, the company silently shut down, together with all of its divisions and subsidiaries.

Subsidiaries

  • MacSoft: On January 30, 2003, Infogrames Inc. announced it had sold MacSoft to Destineer, Inc.[3]
  • Atomic Games, Inc.: On May 6, 2005, Destineer announced acquisition of Atomic Games, Inc.[4]
  • Bold Games: A publishing label for Microsoft video games ported to Mac OS. The brand stopped publishing Mac OS games following MacSoft's acquisition.[5]

Published games

  • Age of Empires II
  • Age of Empires III
  • Cate West: The Vanishing Files
  • Close Combat: First to Fight
  • Fullmetal Alchemist Trading Card Game
  • Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy
  • Giana Sisters DS
  • Homie Rollerz
  • Indianapolis 500 Legends
  • Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine
  • John Deere: American Farmer
  • Links Championship Edition
  • Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ
  • Master of Orion III
  • Neverwinter Nights
  • Rec Room Games
  • Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
  • Samurai Deeper Kyo
  • Starship Troopers
  • Stoked
  • Summer Sports: Paradise Island
  • Sword of the Stars
  • Taito Legends
  • Taito Legends 2
  • Taito Legends Power-Up
  • Tropico
  • Unreal Tournament 2003
  • Unreal Tournament 2004
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas
  • Wings Over Europe
  • Wings Over Vietnam
  • WordJong DS
  • WWII Aces

References

  1. ^ Cohen, Peter (April 28, 2006). "Securing new funding, Destineer promises more Mac games". Macworld. IDG. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  2. ^ Phillips, Michael (August 26, 2002). "Interview: Destineer's Peter Tamte". IMG. Archived from the original on October 19, 2018. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  3. ^ "Macworld: News: Destineer acquires MacSoft". November 7, 2006. Archived from the original on November 7, 2006. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  4. ^ "Destineer Announces Acquisition of Pioneering GAMES Developer, Atomic Games". Archived from the original on February 7, 2006. Retrieved February 7, 2006.
  5. ^ "MacGamer - Get In The Game". October 19, 2006. Archived from the original on October 19, 2006. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
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