Novalogic
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| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | August 7, 1985 in Calabasas, California |
| Founder | John A. Garcia |
| Headquarters | Malibu, California, United States |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Products |
Comanche series Delta Force series |
| Parent | THQ Nordic |
| Website | novalogic |
NovaLogic, Inc. is a software developer and publisher established in 1985 and based in Calabasas, California. The company was founded by current CEO John A. Garcia. Garcia's background in computer software started in Southern California in the early 1980s, when he worked at DataSoft. NovaLogic was bought out by THQ Nordic.
Originally, NovaLogic worked on new versions of previously published games. Taito America was a major client of the company and most (if not all) of Novalogic's earliest games were PC conversions of Taito arcade games.
The cancelled Philips CD-i sequel to Super Mario World, Super Mario's Wacky Worlds, was in development by NovaLogic.
In 1994, NovaLogic set up its European office in London, England. This office has subsequently been closed down.
Three years later, NovaLogic first launched its free online matchmaking service, NovaWorld. This service allows for large online battles and stat tracking. After publishing several successful military-themed games, the company started NovaLogic Systems, Inc. (NLS) on February 13, 1996, which made training simulations for the US Army.
The company's 2004 launch of Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising claimed to have set a world record for the largest FPS game, which was quickly refuted by Sony Online Entertainment for its game Planetside, which routinely hosted hundreds of players on a single server. Novalogic then changed its claim to the "largest FPS without a subscription fee", which fans of the venerable World War II Online quickly noted also was inaccurate. Ultimately the company settled for the title of largest "modern combat" FPS without a subscription.
One year later, NovaLogic's Delta Force: Black Hawk Down for the Xbox, developed by Climax Group, allowed up to 50 players in a multiplayer game, breaking the record for the largest console multiplayer battles at the time. That same year, Novalogic was fined $153,500 by the Business Software Alliance after an audit found they had unlicensed copies of software by Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, FileMaker, Macromedia, Microsoft and Symantec.
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