ScrewAttack's Top 10
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| Division | |
| Industry | Entertainment |
| Founded | February 15, 2006 |
| Founders | Craig Skistimas Tom Hanley |
| Headquarters | Austin, Texas, United States |
| Products | Web shows |
| Parent | Rooster Teeth |
| Website | http://screwattack.roosterteeth.com |
ScrewAttack Entertainment, LLC., commonly referred to as just ScrewAttack, is a division of Rooster Teeth that creates gaming entertainment. It was launched on February 15, 2006 by Craig Skistimas and Tom Hanley. ScrewAttack additionally held a yearly convention dubbed "SGC" in the Dallas, Texas area before it was merged with RTX following its acquisition by Fullscreen. Labeled as "The Biggest Party in Gaming," SGC featured an array of panels ranging from people within the gaming industry to YouTube celebrities, as well a 24-hour free-to-play arcade, exhibitor hall, and video game and cosplay tournaments. ScrewAttack's website features original content as well as a variety of third party content from partners.
The name and logo are derived from a spinning jump attack of the same name in the Metroid video game series.
ScrewAttack was created in 2006 by Craig Skistimas and Thomas Hanley. The first show featured on the site was an audio podcast called SideScrollers. Viacom Media Networks acquired rights to some of ScrewAttack’s programming (Top 10's, Video Game Vault and the Angry Video Game Nerd) adding it to their GameTrailers service. Since working with GameTrailers, ScrewAttack's features have been downloaded over 245 million times from 2007 to 2009. Overall, ScrewAttack's content has been viewed over 1 billion times through its website and various syndication partners including YouTube, GameTrailers, IGN, Revision 3 and Escapist Magazine.
In September 2011, ScrewAttack.com launched its new version, "The New ScrewAttack", which features several overhauled interfaces and designs to the website. Another website version, "Phase 2" was officially launched on May 22, 2012. Some of the new features of Phase 2 include the ability to customize profiles and the ability to "subscribe" to other members. Also included is the ability to create shows by uploading videos from the user's preferred video player. On the new profile is the "wall" (similar to the Facebook "wall"), allowing users to post items or comments in a similar manner to social networking sites. There is also a "feed" tab, showing the recent activity of other users that the user has subscribed to.
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