Question: Deadline Games A/S was a video game developer based in Copenhagen, Denmark, operating between 1996 and 2009, its last published game, was based on "Watchmen", atchmen is an American comic-book limited series, published by which organization?
Context: Deadline Games A/S was a video game developer based in Copenhagen, Denmark, operating between 1996 and 2009.  Its last published game was "", based on "Watchmen". Watchmen is an American comic-book limited series published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987, and collected in 1987.  The series was created by a British collaboration consisting of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins.  "Watchmen" originated from a story proposal Moore submitted to DC featuring superhero characters that the company had acquired from Charlton Comics.  As Moore's proposed story would have left many of the characters unusable for future stories, managing editor Dick Giordano convinced Moore to create original characters instead. Crytek UK Limited (formerly Free Radical Design Ltd.) was a British video game developer based in Nottingham, England.  Founded by David Doak, Stephen John "Steve" Ellis, Karl Ivar Hilton and Graeme Norgate in Stoke-on-Trent on 29 October 1998, they were best known for their "TimeSplitters" series of games.  After going into financial administration, it was announced on 4 February 2009 that the studio had been acquired by German video game developer Crytek and would be renamed Crytek UK.  Crytek had a good relationship with the city of Nottingham due in part to its sponsorship of the Gamecity festival and its recruitment drives with Nottingham Trent University.  In 2014, the studio was shut down and the majority of the staff transferred to the newly formed Dambuster Studios. Game Republic Inc. (株式会社ゲームリパブリック "Kabushiki-gaisha Gēmu-Ripaburikku" ) was an independent video game developer based in Tokyo, Japan.  The company, which employed just under 300 individuals before its closure, was founded on July 1, 2003 by Yoshiki Okamoto after he departed from Japanese game developer and publisher Capcom.  He began working at rival game developer and publisher Konami in the 1980s, and was responsible for such arcade games as "Gyruss" and "Time Pilot".  He then moved to Capcom, where he worked on many franchises, such as "1942", "Resident Evil" and especially "Street Fighter II". Pivotal Games Limited was a British video game developer based in Corston, England, founded in March 2000 by fifteen ex-Pumpkin Studios employees, after it was shut down by its parent company, Eidos Interactive.  Led by Jim Bambra, Nick Cook and Alex McLean, of which Bambra and Cook had previously founded Pumpkin Studios in August 1996, the studio was formed under the Kaboom Studios umbrella, in order to establish a publishing relationship to Sales Curve Interactive (SCi, later renamed SCi Games).  Between 2002 and 2008, Pivotal Games developed all installments in the "Conflict" series, as well as "The Great Escape", based on the film of the same name.  In September 2003, after financial struggles of parent company Kaboom Studios, who had at that point had already closed down sister studios Attention to Detail and Silicon Dreams Studio, SCi showed interest in acquiring the company.  Kaboom Studios went into receivership on 9 September 2003, with all remaining assets, including still-active Pivotal Games, being transferred to Ernst & Young for sale.  On 29 September 2003, SCi acquired Pivotal Games from Ernst & Young for a total of GB£ .  In May 2005, SCi Games finalised its acquisition and merger with Eidos plc, the parent of Eidos Interactive, which would become in charge of SCi Games' subsidiaries.  In March 2008, SCi Games closed down fourteen operating projects to counter a GB£ net loss from the preceding fiscal year, leading to rumors that Pivotal Games was also to be closed.  On 14 July 2008, it was officially announced that the studio was to shut its doors, and 99 staff had already been made redundant, leaving only a team of 10–12 specialist personnel.  Pivotal Games was closed on 13 August 2008. BetaDwarf is a Danish independent video game developer based in Copenhagen, Denmark, founded in 2010. The company was formed by a small group of students in 2010, who moved into an unused classroom in Aalborg University – Copenhagen, Denmark and began developing their first game, "Forced".  Since, they have left the classroom and released a second game, "". Silicon Studio is a Japanese computer graphics technology company and video game developer based in Tokyo.  As a technology company, Silicon Studio has produced several products in the 3D computer graphics field, including middleware software, such as a post-processing visual effects library called YEBIS, as well as general real-time graphics engines and game development engines, such as OROCHI and Mizuchi, a physically based rendering engine.  As a video game developer, Silicon Studio has worked on different titles for several gaming platforms, most notably, the action-adventure game "3D Dot Game Heroes" on the PlayStation 3, the role-playing video game "Bravely Default" on the Nintendo 3DS, and "Fantasica" on the iOS and Android mobile platforms. Eutechnyx Limited (formerly Zeppelin Games, until 1994, and Merit Studios (Europe) Limited, until 1997) is a British video game developer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.  Since 1997, the company has focused on racing games.  They are known for their largely-panned video game, "", work with the "NASCAR The Game" franchise, and as a developer on various other racing titles and games. Mark Healey (from Ipswich, Suffolk) is a British video game developer.  Healey started his career making games for the Commodore 64 home computer - his first published game was "KGB Super Spy" for Codemasters, which led to developing the educational "Fun School" series of games for Europress Software.  Healey joined Bullfrog Productions to work with Peter Molyneux on titles such as "Theme Park", "Magic Carpet" and "Dungeon Keeper".  When Molyneux left Bullfrog to form Lionhead Studios, Healey joined him, and worked as a senior artist/designer on "Black & White".  Whilst still at Lionhead, he developed "Rag Doll Kung Fu" independently in his spare time, which was the first third party game to be distributed over Steam - Valve Corporation's online distribution system.  He is a co-founder and creative director of Media Molecule. " LittleBigPlanet", its first video game, is a cooperative platformer for the PlayStation 3. Straandlooper is an animation studio and video game developer based in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland.  They developed the episodic video game for iPhone, "" which is based on their character "Hector: Fat Arse of the Law".  Straandlooper is notable for being Northern Ireland's first animation studio to produce a television series for the international market.  As a video game developer, they are notable for being the first company where Telltale Games took on a publishing role, rather than a directing role.  Telltale funded the development of the final two episodes of "Hector: Badge of Carnage" and published all three episodes on additional platforms, in addition to iOS.
Answer: DC Comics