Digital Extremes

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Company Profile

Founded in 1993 by James Schmalz, Digital Extremes proudly ranks as one of the world's top development studios in the interactive entertainment industry.

Headquartered in London, Ontario, Canada, Digital Extremes got its foothold in the industry through the shareware craze during the early 90's. Written entirely in assembly language by Schmalz, Epic Pinball was released 10 months after development began, was delivered exactly on time and soon became a huge success. Epic Pinball was one of the most successful shareware games ever made, trailing only behind such industry greats as Duke3D, Doom and Wolfenstein 3D. A sequel soon followed - Extreme Pinball -- and together they helped fund the creation of what would become one of the industry's blockbuster franchises, Epic Games' Unreal®.

The brainchild of Schmalz, Digital Extremes partnered with Epic Games to co-create Unreal and its counterpart Unreal Tournament. Both games set a new standard for first-person action games. Tremendously rich graphics, fine-tuned gameplay, frenetic action and high quality production value are descriptions that have become synonymous with any Unreal branded game. To date, the scope of games in the award-winning Unreal franchise, including Unreal, Unreal Tournament and Unreal Championship have sold more than 9 million units worldwide across the PC, PlayStation®2, Xbox™ and Dreamcast™ platforms.

Recently, Digital Extremes co-developed the award winning hit Unreal Tournament 2004 for the PC. The game received a resounding ovation by fans and critics and has been a top seller at retail since it shipped globally in March 2004.

Most recently, Digital Extremes' second studio in Toronto completed the new first-person shooter, Pariah™ that shipped to stores in May 2005 while Digital Extremes London is continuing development on its next-generation game, Dark Sector™ that is poised, as with Unreal, to take the gaming world by storm.