Information: - Sunstorm Interactive is an Indianapolis-based video game developer founded in 1995 by Anthony Campiti, which specialized in hunting simulators and first-person shooters. The majority of their titles were small-scale "value titles", priced between $20 and $30 as compared to the typical computer game that was priced at $50 at the time. - Indianapolis (pronounced ), is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. It is in the East North Central region of the Midwestern United States. With an estimated population of 853,173 in 2015, Indianapolis is the second most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, and 14th largest in the U.S. The city is the economic and cultural center of the Indianapolis metropolitan area, home to 2 million people, the 34th most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. Its combined statistical area ranks 26th, with 2.4 million inhabitants. Indianapolis covers , making it the 16th largest city by land area in the U.S. - Duke Nukem II (Fully titled as "Duke Nukem II: Escape From Alien Abductors!") is a platform game developed by Apogee Software and released December 3, 1993. The game consists of four episodes (of 8 levels each), the first available as shareware. Not to be confused with the second episode of "Duke Nukem", it is the second "Duke Nukem" game, between the 1991 "Duke Nukem" debut and followed by "Duke Nukem 3D" in 1996. Todd Replogle was the primary designer of all three games. - 3D Realms (legal name "Apogee Software, Ltd.") is an American video game publisher and video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987. It is best known for popularizing the shareware distribution model and as the creator of franchises on the PC such as "Duke Nukem", and also the publisher of other franchises such as "Commander Keen" and "Wolfenstein 3D". - Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by 3D Realms and published by GT Interactive Software. The shareware version of the game was originally released on January 29, 1996, while the full version was released on April 19, 1996 as version 1.3d. It is a sequel to the platform games "Duke Nukem" and "Duke Nukem II", published by 3D Realms. The "Plutonium PAK", an expansion pack which updated the game to version 1.4 and added a fourth eleven-level episode, was released in November 1996. The "Atomic Edition", a standalone version of the game that included the content from the "Plutonium PAK" and updated the game to version 1.5, was later released; the original version of "Duke Nukem 3D" has since been discontinued. An official fifth episode was released on October 11, 2016 with "20th Anniversary World Tour" published by Gearbox Software. - Gearbox Software, LLC is an American video game development company based in Frisco, Texas. It was established in 1999 by developers from companies such as 3D Realms and Bethesda Softworks, with one of the founders, Randy Pitchford, as CEO. The company initially created expansions for the Valve Corporation game "Half-Life", then ported that game and others to console platforms. In 2005 Gearbox launched its first independent set of games, "Brothers in Arms", on console and mobile devices. It became their flagship franchise and spun off a comic book series, television documentary, books, and action figures. Their second original game series "Borderlands" was released in 2009, and by 2015 had sold over 26 million copies. The company also owns the intellectual property of "Duke Nukem" and "Homeworld". - WizardWorks Software was a video game developer and publisher located in Minneapolis , MN . Focused on casual consumer games sold through mass - merchants like Target and Wal - Mart , WizardWorks was best known for publishing the Deer Hunter series of video games developed by Sunstorm Interactive , but also made expansion packs for games such as Doom and Duke Nukem 3D , and developed / published other titles . By 1996 , WizardWorks Inc. sold software under the WizardWorks , CompuWorks , and MacSoft labels . In 1996 , WizardWorks was acquired by GT Interactive Software , and was eventually combined with other GT Interactive holdings in Minneapolis to form GT Interactive 's Value Products Division . WizardWorks continued as label through a subsequent corporate acquisition by Infogrames which later became Atari . In 2004 , Atari closed the Minneapolis office , folding outstanding projects into the Beverly , MA office . What entity does 'wizardworks software' has the relation 'inception' with?
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