 turbine, inc. (formerly turbine entertainment software, second nature, and originally cyberspace, inc.) is an american computer game developer that develops 3d massively multiplayer online role-playing games (mmorpgs). turbine was founded by johnny monsarrat, jeremy gaffney, kevin langevin, and timothy miller, changing their company name in 2005 to turbine, inc. in april 2007, turbine released their most recent mmorpg, the lord of the rings online. turbine is well known for employing fans of the game to the customer service side, for ddo examples being "tolero" who hosted a long running role play segment on the unofficial ddo podcast, ddocast, and jerry snook creator and host of said cast. turbine was a privately held company backed by highland capital partners, polaris venture partners, and other private investors since 1998; it has paid no dividends. on april 20, 2010, the company was formally acquired by warner bros.. ==history== turbine was founded in april 1994 by johnny monsarrat and fellow students at brown university, not so much as a company but as a giant project that grew and grew, the goal being to create the world's largest game.johnny monsarrat's story of founding turbine monsarrat was hit by a car in 1994 which resulted in a payout he used to fund the company. in 1995 the company was based in his mother's house with 12 staff members. they found an office in providence, ri, but later moved to westwood, massachusetts to better take advantage of the software engineers coming out of boston's colleges. as ceo, monsarrat used free food and office prankswebsite with many turbine prank stories, including the famous 'wall of wheat puffs'.. to keep staff motivated. the company was originally called cyberspace because "that seemed cool", and was then changed to "second nature", but that was taken, so "turbine" was chosen. the olthoi was the first monster developed for asheron's call, designed by joe angell. asheron's ca
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