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TalonSoft, Inc.

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video games
Founded	March 1995; 29 years ago (1995-03)
Founders	Jim Rose John Davidson
Defunct	2002 (2002)
Fate	Dissolved
Headquarters	Baltimore, US
Key people	Jim Rose (president, CCO) Chris Mate (general manager)
Parent	Take-Two Interactive (1998–2002)

TalonSoft, Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher based in Baltimore.

History

TalonSoft was founded in March 1995, by video game producers Jim Rose and John Davidson. On December 24, 1998, Take-Two Interactive announced that it had acquired TalonSoft, stating that they planned to push their capabilities in the personal computer video game market. The deal comprised 1,033,336 shares accounted as a pooling-of-interest. Bengur Bryan represented TalonSoft in the purchase. By early 1999, TalonSoft's most successful game was East Front, with sales near 90,000 units. TalonSoft ceased all operations in 2002. In October 2005, Matrix Games acquired the rights to publish all games developed by TalonSoft.

List of games

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References

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