Research

Zynga
Casual games developer located in San Francisco, they focus mainly on browser based games as well as application widgets on websites like Facebook and Myspace.
Feature games

• Attack!
• Blackjack
• Café World
• Farmville
  
• Football
• Friend Factory
• Friends for Sale
• Gang Wars
• Ghost Racer
• Guild of Heroes
• Heroes vs. Villains
• Live Poker
• Mafia Wars
• My Heroes Ability (Zynga's only original title, discontinued)
• Pathwords
• PetVille
• Pirates: Rule the Caribbean!
• "Poker Blitz"
• Prison Lockdown
• Roller Coaster Kingdom
• Space Wars
• Scramble (browser game)
• Scramble Live
• Sea Wars
• Slayers / Vampires / Werewolves / Zombies
• Special Forces
• Street Racing
• Sudoku
• Texas Hold'Em
• Treasure Isle
• Triumph
• Vampire Wars
• Word Twist
• YoVille

Capcom
Capcom is a Japanese based company which has stretched out all over Europe and America.
Capcom is a manufacturer and Distributor of electronic games machines. founded in 1979.
now an industry leader in the video game industry because of its cutting edge technology and software which it has released into the industry.


Wideload
A hippopotamus logotype, they develop new games in the old fashioned way, by taking some talented but "weird" people
The games that emerge from this process are unique beasts - and like the mighty hippopotamus, they are not easily categorized or constrained. Games like Stubbs the Zombie, Hail to the Chimp, Cyclomite and Texas Cheat'em have charmed demanding gamers around the world. Now, after their recent move to Disney Interactive Studios, Wideload is busily staking out a beautiful new patch of the creative jungle. If you are put off by other video games, you may find our work refreshingly different.

XBOX live market place
this is a digital market place built into the xbox 360. you can purchase credit called microsoft point which you can use to buy game trailers, games, music, and even full length dvd quality movies. The market place requires an internet connection but means you dont have to go to the shop to get promotional upgrades and features.
The 11th August 2009 update added Xbox 360 games for download, Avatar Marketplace and renamed Community Games to Indie Games. The market place also has content control for regions to stop them breaking rights laws.

Braid

Braid is a platform and puzzle video game developed by an independant software developer Jonothan Blow.
Braid was only accessable on the xbox live market place, or available to download on the PC, until may 2009 when the company hothead released the game for the mac and in november the same company released it for the playstation network. There is no disc you can buy from the shop on it this saves microsoft money by not having to find
distributers for the software they can sell it online.

Open source software

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. Open source licenses often meet the requirements of the Open Source Definition. Some open source software is available within the public domain. Open source software is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner. Open-source software is the most prominent example of open-source development and often compared to user-generated content. The term open-source software originated as part of a marketing campaign for free software.A report by Standish Group states that adoption of open-source software models has resulted in savings of about $60 billion per year to consumers.