Morningwood Arts

Morningwood Arts, Publishing, or simply Morningwood Arts, is a Canadian video game publisher headquartered in Thunder Bay, ON, Canada. Founded by Joseph Thomas in 1997, the company's first ever publishing games were the Civil War and War series' the former developed between 1999 and 2013, and the latter developed between 2001 and 2011. It wasn't until 2010 when Anakin Nakamura became the company's CEO, replacing Joseph Thomas after his depature from the company.
Under Anakin Nakamura's leadership, the company grew significantly, including the acquisition of the Call of Duty franchise from Activision in 2012, securing a video games license from Rooster Teeth, and in 2021 partnered with Lucasfilm Games on a new iteration of the classic Star Wars Battlefront series, going under the brand name Star Wars Battlefront: Redux.
In 2014, the company acquired the video game rights to Jesse Loon's Eclipse Universe franchise and began creating several games within the universe. Jesse Loon has had a critical role in the development of these games as a writer and creative consultant. He served as a creative consultant in the Call of Duty: Eclipse Warfare series and as a main writer in the Rose Squad Trilogy spin-off of those games as well as in Eclipse Universe: Second Galactic War and Eclipse Universe: Return of the Republic. Along with Anakin Nakamura, he is writing the story for Eclipse Universe: Rose Squad - Extinction, the first in a new trilogy focusing on Rose Squad while retconning a major key detail in Call of Duty: Retribution.
== Subsidiaries ==
*Publishers
**Morningwood Industries
***Semblance Industries
*Developers
**Morningwood Studios
***Morningwood Austin
***Morningwood Vancouver
***Morningwood Los Angeles
***Morningwood New York
***Morningwood London
**Morningwood Interactive Creative Entertainment (MICE)
**Morningwood Software
**Frost Games
**Nakamura Interactive
**Tachibana Games
**DICE
***MICE Los Angeles
**Goomba Games
**Extinction Studios
*Entertainment/Media
**Morningwood Entertainment
**Morningwood Comics
== Games ==
Full list of games here
*Star Wars Battlefront: Redux series
**Star Wars Battlefront: Across The Stars
*Call of Duty series
**Call of Duty: Awakening of the Hive
**Call of Duty: Extinction
**Call of Duty: Age of Extinction
*Eclipse Universe
**Eclipse Universe: Second Galactic War
**Eclipse Universe: Return of the Republic
**Eclipse Universe: Rose Squad - Extinction
*RWBY: Heroes vs. Villains
== Game engines ==
*Semblance
*Goomba
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