Turbine, Inc.

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Turbine

Type	Private
Founded	1994
Headquarters	Westwood, MA
Industry	Computer and video games
Products	The Lord of the Rings Online Dungeons & Dragons Online Asheron's Call Asheron's Call 2
Slogan	Powered By Our Fans
Website	http://www.turbine.com/

Turbine, Inc. (formerly Turbine Entertainment Software, Second Nature, and originally CyberSpace, Inc.) is a Westwood, Massachusetts-based computer game developer that pioneered 3D massively multiplayer role-playing games (MMORPGs). Turbine was founded by Jon Monsarrat, Jeremy Gaffney, Kevin Langevin, and Timothy Miller. Since May 2003, Turbine has been working on the MMORPG, The Lord of the Rings Online which is being co-published with Midway Games. Turbine is a privately held company backed by Highland Capital Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, and private investors.

On February 15, 2005 the company name was officially changed to Turbine, Inc. [1]

[edit] Released Games

Asheron's Call (1999) - Published by Microsoft, and purchased back from Microsoft in December, 2003.
Asheron's Call 2 (2002) - Published by Microsoft, and shut down in December, 2005.
Dungeons & Dragons Online (2006) - Published by Atari.
The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (launch: 24th April, 2007) - Co-Published with Midway Games in the US, Codemasters in Europe, Tecmo in Japan, and The9 in China.