Westwood Studios was a computer and video game developer, founded in 1985 as Westwood Associates by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle and based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Westwood is best know for developing game series in the real-time strategy, adventure, and role-playing genres. In 2003, the company was acquired and closed by Electronic Arts, which continues to develop games based on Westwood's Command & Conquer series.
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Westwood Studios was a computer and video game developer, founded in 1985 as Westwood Associates by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle and based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Westwood is best know for developing game series in the real-time strategy, adventure, and role-playing genres. In 2003, the company was acquired and closed by Electronic Arts, which continues to develop games based on Westwood's Command & Conquer series.
The company's first projects consisted of contract work for companies like Epyx and Strategic Simulations (SSI), porting 8-bit titles to 16-bit systems like Commodore Amiga and Atari ST. Proceeds from contract work allowed the company to expand into designing its own games in-house. Their first original title was Mars Saga, a game developed for Electronic Arts and released in 1988. They pioneered the genre of Real Time Strategy with the release of BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Revenge, one of the more literal translations of the classic tabletop game Battletech. One of the...
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