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Input (English): Context: KingsIsle Entertainment is a video game developer based in Austin and Plano, Texas, founded by Elie Akilian in January 2005 and launched the following month. Perhaps the best known of the company's recruits are Tom Hall, co-founder of id Software and Ion Storm and J. Todd Coleman, co-founder of Wolfpack Studios. Coleman and Tom Hall have since left KingsIsle Entertainment. The business' primary focus is creating family online games., Railroad Tycoon II is a train and business simulation video game for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation and Dreamcast in the "Railroad Tycoon" series. The Dreamcast version is a Gold Edition with improved graphics and gameplay. "Railroad Tycoon II: Gold Edition" was ported to Linux by Loki Software., Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland. The company was founded by Christopher Weaver in 1986 in Bethesda, Maryland as a division of Media Technology Limited, and nowadays is a wholly owned subsidiary of ZeniMax Media. Originally a video game developer itself, Bethesda Softworks now acts as the publisher for their in-house development team, Bethesda Game Studios, and ZeniMax Media's subsidiaries, ZeniMax Online Studios, id Software, Arkane Studios, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks and BattleCry Studios., Firaxis Games, Inc. is an American video game developer founded in 1996 by Sid Meier, Jeff Briggs, and Brian Reynolds upon leaving MicroProse. Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, the company is best known for its "Civilization" series of games, though it has had notable success with other titles as well. Firaxis is based in Sparks, Maryland; Sid Meier continues to lead creative efforts there., Tomb Raider, styled as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider between 2001 and 2007, is a media franchise that originated with an action-adventure video game series created by British gaming company Core Design. Formerly owned by Eidos Interactive, then by Square Enix after their acquisition of Eidos in 2009, the franchise focuses on an English archaeologist-adventurer Lara Croft, who travels around the world searching for lost artefacts and infiltrating dangerous tombs and ruins. Croft was created by a team at Core Design that included Toby Gard. The gameplay generally focuses around action-adventure exploration of environments, solving puzzles, navigating hostile environments filled with traps, and fighting numerous enemies., Feral Interactive is a video games publisher for Mac OS X and Linux platforms. It was founded in 1996 and is based in London, UK. Feral Interactive works with publishers such as Square Enix, 2K Games, Sega, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Codemasters. Feral develops and publishes ports of its partners' popular games including the "Total War" series, "", "Tomb Raider" and ""., The Codemasters Software Company Limited (formerly Electric Games Company Limited), doing business as Codemasters, is a British video game developer and publisher founded by David Darling and his brother Richard in 1986. Headquartered in Southam, Warwickshire, Codemasters is one of the oldest British game studios, and in 2005 was named the top independent games developer by "Develop" magazine., Tropico is a construction and management simulation video game developed by PopTop Software and published by Gathering of Developers in April 2001. Feral Interactive has developed and published a number of the games in the series for Mac OS X. The games see the player taking the role of "El Presidente", the ruler of an island in the Caribbean during the Cold War era from the 1950s onward., Ubisoft Entertainment SA (formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment Software until 2003, commonly referred to as Ubisoft) is a French multinational video game publisher, headquartered in Rennes, France. It is known for developing games for several acclaimed video game franchises including "Assassin's Creed", "Far Cry", "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon", "Just Dance", "Rainbow Six", "Prince of Persia", "Rayman", "Watch Dogs" and "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell"., Strategy video games are a video game genre that focuses on skillful thinking and planning to achieve victory. It emphasizes strategic, tactical, and sometimes logistical challenges. Many games also offer economic challenges and exploration. They are generally categorized into four sub-types, depending on whether the game is turn-based or real-time, and whether the game focuses on strategy or tactics., Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the Sony Group, which is engaged in business through its four operating components  electronics (video games, network services and medical business), motion pictures, music and financial services. These make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world. Sony's principal business operations include Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Mobile (formerly Sony Ericsson) and Sony Financial. Sony is among the Semiconductor sales leaders by year and as of 2013, the fourth-largest television manufacturer in the world, after Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and TCL., PopTop Software was an American video game developer. It was known as the publisher of several strategy games including "Railroad Tycoon II" (1998) and the Caribbean island simulation "Tropico" (2001)., Linux (pronounced or, less frequently) is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open-source software development and distribution. The defining component of Linux is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. The Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to describe the operating system, which has led to some controversy., Shanda Group (Chinese:  pinyin "Shèngdà jítuán") is a privately-owned global investment company with its global headquarters in Singapore. The company invests across a variety of asset classes including venture capital, private equity, public markets and real estate with a primary focus on the financial services, technology, healthcare and real estate sectors., NCsoft, stylized as NCSOFT, is a South Korea-based online, video and mobile game development company that has produced "Lineage", "City of Heroes", "WildStar", "Guild Wars", "", "Blade & Soul", and "Master X Master"., Dr. Jeffery L. Briggs (born March 10, 1957, in Florence, Alabama) is founder and former President and CEO of Firaxis Games, a video game developer based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States. He was previously a game designer at MicroProse but left that company in 1996 along with Sid Meier and Brian Reynolds to form Firaxis Games. , The original Square Enix Co., Ltd. was formed as the result of a statutory merger between Enix Corporation and Square Co., Ltd. on April 1, 2003, with Enix legally absorbing Square. Each share of Square's common stock was exchanged for 0.85 shares of Enix's common stock. At the time, 80% of Square Enix staff were made up of former Square employees. As part of the merger, former Square president Yoichi Wada was appointed president of the new corporation, while former Enix president Keiji Honda was named its vice president, and the founder of Enix, Yasuhiro Fukushima, the largest shareholder of the combined corporation, became its honorary chairman. As a result of the merger, Square Co., Ltd. was dissolved and Enix was the surviving company. , MicroProse was an American video game publisher and developer founded by "Wild" Bill Stealey and Sid Meier in 1982 as MicroProse Software Inc. It developed and published numerous games, many of which are regarded as groundbreaking, classics and cult titles, including starting the "Civilization" and "X-COM" series. Most of their internally developed titles were vehicle simulation and strategy games., Sid Meier 's Railroads ! is a business simulation game developed by Sid Meier on the Gamebryo game engine that was released in October 2006 and is the sequel to Railroad Tycoon 3 . Although Sid Meier created the original Railroad Tycoon , subsequent versions were developed by PopTop Software . After a visit to Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg , Germany , Sid Meier was inspired to reinvent his original creation . A version for the Mac OS X was published by Feral Interactive on November 1 , 2012 , under the latter 's Feral Legends label ., Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese investment holding company whose subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, internet and mobile phone value-added services and operate online advertising services in China. Its headquarters are in Nanshan District, Shenzhen., Sidney K. "Sid" Meier (born February 24, 1954) is a programmer, designer, and producer of several popular strategy video games and simulation video games, most notably the "Civilization" series. Meier co-founded MicroProse in 1982 with Bill Stealey and is the Director of Creative Development of Firaxis Games, which he co-founded with Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds in 1996. He has won several prestigious accolades for his contributions to the video game industry., 2K Games, Inc. (shortened as 2K) is an American video game publisher. Notable titles include "Borderlands", "Civilization", "The Darkness", "BioShock", "NBA 2K" and "WWE 2K". 2K Games is a publishing subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive. It was created on January 25, 2005 after Take-Two acquired developer Visual Concepts and its wholly owned subsidiary Kush Games from Sega for . The name "2K Games" comes from Visual Concepts' sports game lineup, typically referred to as the "2K series"., Rockstar Games, Inc. (sometimes referred to as Rockstar NYC) is an American video game publisher, best known for their "Grand Theft Auto", "Red Dead", "Midnight Club", "Max Payne", "The Warriors", "Bully", and "Manhunt" games., Gamebryo is a game engine. Gamebryo 3D and LightSpeed engines are owned by Gamebase Co., Ltd. and Gamebase USA and have been used by several video game developers including Atlus, Trion Worlds, 2K Games, Disney, Ubisoft, Bethesda Softworks, Firaxis Games, Tencent, Sony, Shanda, NCsoft, Rockstar Games and KingsIsle Entertainment for numerous cross-platform game titles., Atlus was founded in April 1986, and existed until it was dissolved in October 2010 by Index Holdings (later Index Corporation). After the dissolution, the name Atlus continued as a brand used by Index on video games until 2013. Atlus, in its current incarnation, was founded as Sega Dream Corporation in September 2013, a new shell corporation established by Sega. In November 2013, Sega Dream was renamed Index Corporation, following the bankruptcy of the original Index Corporation. In April 2014, the contents and solution businesses of Index were spun off as a new company called Index Corporation, while the rest of Index Corporation (formerly Sega Dream) was renamed Atlus., Subject: sid meier's railroads!, Relation: developer, Options: (A) 2k games (B) atlus (C) bethesda game studios (D) bethesda softworks (E) codemasters (F) core design (G) eidos interactive (H) feral interactive (I) firaxis games (J) free software foundation (K) french (L) gnu (M) id software (N) kush games (O) linus torvalds (P) microprose (Q) microsoft (R) ncsoft (S) poptop software (T) rockstar games (U) sega (V) shanda (W) sony (X) square enix (Y) tactics (Z) tango gameworks ([) tencent holdings (\) trion worlds (]) ubisoft (^) visual concepts (_) zenimax online studios
Output (English): firaxis games