Research of terms and companies

Zynga is a casual game developer located in San Francisco, California, United States.^[1] The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace.

Capcom is an international developer and publisher of video games headquartered in Osaka, Japan. It was founded in 1979 as Japan Capsule Computers, a company devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines.

Wideload Games is an American game developer located in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 2003 by Alexander Seropian—the co-founder of Bungie and head behind the games Halo: Combat Evolved, Myth, and Marathon—and 6 other former Bungie Studios employees 3 years after Bungie's acquisition by Microsoft Corporation.

Xbox Live Marketplace is a feature lets you search, browse, and purchase games, videos, and even avatar accessories while you are away from your console.

Braid is a platform and puzzle video game developed by independent software developer Jonathan Blow. The game was released on August 6, 2008 for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service.

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is available in source code form for which the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, and improve the software.