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Double Fusion named in Entrepreneur's 100 Brilliant Companies List as one of the top 10 companies in the Video Games category
June 2009 Issue
Video Games Forget cheat codes and secret levels—today’s gamers demand downloads, online multiplayer functionality, user-created modifications and enough action to give Kiefer Sutherland an asthma attack. So who’s winning in this $9.5 billion industry?
Keep an eye on:
DreamGear Accessories: Dream-Gear’s heavy-metal-inspired WarBeast, a full-size replica guitar designed by famed electric guitar-maker B.C. Rich, ups the thrash and style factor for Rock Band and Guitar Hero shredders.
Double Fusion: Double Fusion has posted double-digit revenue growth by negotiating product placement and advertising within video games, an emerging, but neglected, market.
Majesco Entertainment: Cooking Mama and Mega Brain Boost were Majesco’s unlikely gaming successes. And experts predict more hits as the company’s Go Play series for Wii ups the ante.
Media Molecule: This United Kingdom indie studio cashed in big on downloadable content for its hit game, Little Big Planet.
MindArk: Sweden-based Mind-Ark’s Planet Calypso, launched this year, allows users to create products or sell services for real cash.
Mythic Entertainment: An innovative “Realm vs. Realm” system, in which teams battle to make their server top dog, will help Mythic’s newWarhammer Online: Age of Reckoning challenge World of Warcraft.
Silicon Mountain Holdings Inc.: It owns two of the hottest boutique gaming computer system manufacturers in the U.S., WidowPC and Visionman, and just released a line of value-priced high-definition TV-PCs.
SteelSeries: Once known only to hard-core gamers, SteelSeries inked a deal with BestBuy to put its gaming accessories, including the popular WoWmouse, in front of consumers.
ThatGameCompany: TGC released its groundbreaking game Flower for download on PlayStation 3 and is coming out with new games that deliver emotional content besides anger, bloodlust and rage.
