TalonSoft
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| Industry | Computer and video game industry |
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| Fate | Acquired by Take-Two Interactive in 2000 and shut down in 2005 |
| Successor | Take-Two Interactive |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Defunct | 2005 |
| Headquarters | Baltimore, Maryland |
Key people | Jim Rose and John Davidson |
| Parent | Take-Two Interactive from 2000 |
TalonSoft was a Baltimore, Maryland-based computer game developer founded in 1995 by Jim Rose and John Davidson. The company specialized in wargames; many of its releases were acclaimed within the wargaming community.
TalonSoft was acquired by Take-Two Interactive in early 2000, and operated as a brand of Take-Two until it was shut down in 2005. In October 2005, Matrix Games acquired the publication rights to most of the TalonSoft catalog, including the Battleground, Campaign, and Operational Art of War series.
Games published or developed by TalonSoft
- Battleground series
- Battleground: Bulge-Ardennes (1995)
- Battleground 2: Gettysburg (1995)
- Battleground 3: Waterloo (1996)
- Battleground 4: Shiloh (1996)
- Battleground 5: Antietam (1996)
- Battleground 6: Napoleon in Russia (1997)
- Battleground 7: Bull Run (1997)
- Battleground 8: Prelude to Waterloo (1997)
- Battleground 9: Chickamauga (1999)
- Battleground 10: Middle East (1997)
- Battleground 11: East Front (1997)
- Age of Sail series
- Age of Sail (1996)
- Age of Sail II (2001)
- Campaign series
- West Front (1998)
- East Front II (1999)
- Rising Sun (2000)
- Divided Ground: Middle East Conflict (2001)
- The Operational Art of War series
- The Operational Art of War Volume I (1998)
- The Operational Art of War II (1999)
- Tribal Rage (1998)
- 12 O'Clock High: Bombing the Reich (1999)
- Battle of Britain (1999)
- Hidden & Dangerous (1999)
- Jagged Alliance 2 (1999)
- Spec Ops II: Green Berets (1999)
- Spec Ops II: Operation Bravo (2000)
- Hidden & Dangerous: Devil's Bridge (2000)
- Jetfighter IV (2000)
- Martian Gothic: Unification (2000)
- Codename Eagle (2000)
- Dogs of War (2000)
- Metal Fatigue (2000)
- Spec Ops: Stealth Patrol (2000)
- Spec Ops: Ranger Elite (2000)
- Tzar: The Burden of the Crown (2000)
- Merchant Prince II (2001)
- StarLeader (2001)
- Outlive (2001)
- Gettysburg: The American Civil War (2006)
- John Tiller's Campaign Series (2007)
- Age of Ironclads (1997)
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