Black Widow Games was a video game developer specializing in promotional mods for Quake and Half-Life 3D engines. They are best known for their They Hunger series.[1] Prominent members included Neil Manke (game and level design), Einar Saukas (game design and coding), and Magnus Jansén (game consultant and sound engineer).[2] The company business model is based on developing contract-work mods for the marketing campaigns of customer companies and products (such as the S.O.F. TV series from Rysher Entertainment and the movie Underworld from Sony Pictures[3][4]), freely distributed for promotion.[5]
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- ^ Black Widow Games Archived 2021-08-27 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 24 November 2008.
- ^ Burnes, Andrew. New Version of Half-Life Underworld Mod Released. IGN. 16 September 2003.
- ^ Underworld Announced Archived 2009-02-07 at the Wayback Machine. GameSpy. 23 July 2003.
- ^ Black Widow Games Archived 2009-02-08 at the Wayback Machine. MobyGames. Retrieved 24 November 2008.