Question: Information: - 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. - 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. - A simulation video game describes a diverse super-category of video games, generally designed to closely simulate aspects of a real or fictional reality. - The video game industry (sometimes referred to as the interactive entertainment industry) is the economic sector involved with the development, marketing and sales of video games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and employs thousands of people worldwide. - World WarII (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nationsincluding all of the great powerseventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust (in which approximately 11 million people were killed) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres (in which approximately one million were killed, and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. These made World WarII the deadliest conflict in human history. - 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. - iEntertainment Network ( formerly known as Interactive Magic ) is an American online gaming company , Founded by JW '' Wild Bill '' Stealey , the co-founder and former CEO of MicroProse Software with Sid Meier , a game developer . IENT currently operates WarBirds , M4TankBrigade , BowHunter2015 , Outdoors Unlimited , and the IamGame.com . iEntertainment Network , Inc. ( OTCBB : IENT ) is a provider of online entertainment communities and publisher of online and retail games . WarBirds , IENT 's massively multiplayer flight simulation software , which plays on both PCs and MAC computers , has won numerous awards around the world for '' Best Online Simulation Game '' since the simulation release in 1995 , and attracts players from countries around the world . IENT is currently developing Mobile Outdoors Games . IENT first mobile game is due to be released in April 2015 with at least two additional games planned for the following 12 months . IENT plans on making a series of Outdoors games on Hunting , Fishing , Archery , and Gun sports as a continuing franchise . IENT was a fully reporting public company and hopes to return to that status in early 2016 . - Interactive Magic, also known as iMagic, is a developer and publisher of simulation computer games founded in 1994 by MicroProse co-founder JW "Wild Bill" Stealey. Interactive Magic grew from $0 in 1995 to $23 million in annual sales by 1998. iMagic went public in 1998 and was sold to a venture capitalist in 1999, when Bill Stealey left the company. In 2002, Founder JW Wild Bill Stealey returned to run the company. Wild Bill changed the name of the company to iEntertainment Network. - 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. - WarBirds is a Massively Multiplayer Online and offline World War II simulation, published by iEntertainment Network. The game includes an air combat flight simulator as well as a simulator for tanks and other ground vehicles. WarBirds was originally developed in 1995 by Interactive Creations of Grapevine. and inspired a fan cult and conventions, and a book titled "WarBirds: the Story so far". WarBirds III was released for Mac and PC in 2002, and WarBirds: The Mighty Eight was released in 2007. An even more recent version, WarBirds 2008 has been produced and includes tanks, trucks, halftracks, new aircraft including the A-67 dragon, and new graphics. - 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. 'ientertainment network' is related to which object entity through the relation of 'industry'? Choices: - aircraft - computer - human - interactive entertainment - publisher - software - video game - video game industry
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video game industry