Synergy: Video game: Darkside Game Studios and Arkane Studios worked together to make the levels of the game better than the first Bioshock game.
Proliferation: Video game: Farmville: Facebook based game that become increasingly popular by the consumer, so a Zombie farm version of Farmville was released for the I-devices.
Media ownership: Video Game: Mirrors edge: Developed by EA Digital Illusions CE: Published by Electronic Arts who have legal rights for this game.
First party game: Video game: A game that is created by the console manufacturers themselves, for example, Eidos (Lara Croft: tomb raider series)
Second party game: A company called Game Freak maily developed the Pokemon game series by nintendo and this kind of company is very rare in video game industries because, without the direct support of the platform owner, it is financially risky to be solely developing for that particular platform.
Third party game: The third party developers can be ownde by much larger third-parties, such as the differences between Capcom (Dino Crisis, The Legend of Zelda) and HAL Laboratory (Super Smash Bros) Much larger third-parties that also publish their own games are known as publishing houses, even though they develop their own games internally.
Vertical Intergration: A games company who do all the creation and distribution themselves. For example, Capcom
Horizontal Intergration: This is put together with Synergy: It is a company that works with others for example: Croc-Legend of the Gobbos: Argonaut Software (developer) and Electronic Arts (distributer)
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