Treyarch

American video game developer

Treyarch is an American video game developer company. Peter Akemann and Doğan Köslü started the company in 1996. Activision bought it in 2001. It is in Santa Monica, California.

In 2005, Gray Matter Interactive and Treyarch became one company.

As part of the 2007 Leipzig Games Convention, Activision announced that Treyarch would be one of three developers making their first James Bond game, Quantum of Solace. The game started to be sold on 31 October 2008 in Europe and 4 November 2008 in North America. Beenox and Vicarious Visions made the PC and handheld versions of the game. Treyarch also plays an important part in developing the Call of Duty series. They have made Call of Duty 2: Big Red One, Call of Duty 3, Call of Duty: World at War, and Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Call of Duty: Black Ops had the record for the biggest entertainment release ever for any kind of entertainment. It broke the record during the first day it was sold[1] Sales from the game worldwide reached US $650 million within five days after its release.[2]Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 later broke the record again.

Developed change

Name Platform(s) Release date(s)
Die by the Sword Windows 1998
Die by the Sword: Limb from Limb Windows 1998
Triple Play 2000 Nintendo 64 1999
Draconus: Cult of the Wyrm Dreamcast 2000
Triple Play 2001 PlayStation, Windows 2000
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Dreamcast 2000
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Dreamcast 2000
Max Steel: Covert Missions Dreamcast 2000
Triple Play Baseball PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Windows 2001
Spider-Man Dreamcast 2001
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X Xbox 2001
NHL 2K2 Dreamcast 2002
Spider-Man GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox 2002
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer GameCube, Mac OS X, PlayStation 2, Windows, Xbox 2002
Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder 2 PlayStation 2, Xbox Cancelled
Minority Report: Everybody Runs GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox 2002
NHL 2K3 GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox 2002
Spider-Man 2 GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox 2004
Ultimate Spider-Man GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox 2005
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox 2005
Call of Duty 3 PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360 2006
Spider-Man 3 PlayStation 3, Playstation 2, Xbox 360 2007
Quantum of Solace PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 2008
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 2008
Call of Duty: World at War PlayStation 3, Wii, Windows, Xbox 360 2008
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Reflex Wii 2009
Call of Duty: Black Ops PlayStation 3, Wii, Windows, Xbox 360 2010
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Wii 2011
Call of Duty: Black Ops II PlayStation 3, Wii, Windows, Xbox 360 2012
Call of Duty: Black Ops III Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One 2015

References change

  1. The Associated Press (11 November 2010). "CBC News – Technology & Science – Call of Duty breaks sales record". Cbc.ca. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
  2. Staff Writer (18 November 2010). "Call of Duty Black Ops Sales Hit $650M". socalTECH. Retrieved 22 November 2010.