Company type | LLC |
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Industry | Video games |
Founded | 2008[1] |
Defunct | 2012[2] |
Fate | Dissolved[2] |
Headquarters | New York City, New York, U.S. |
Key people | Jamie King, Gary Foreman, Nicholas Perrett, Paul Coyne [3] |
Products | Def Jam Rapstar[4] Dog Show Friends[5] Alli Skate[6] |
4mm Games was a New York-based video game development company founded in 2008[1] by two founders of Rockstar Games, Jamie King and Gary Foreman along with former Image Metrics executive Nicholas Perrett, and Def Jam Enterprises, Warner Music Group and NBC executive Paul Coyne.[3][7] OBE and former NCSoft CEO Geoff Heath was a member of the advisory board and offered strategic input.[8]
The company released the Terminal Reality developed and Konami / Autumn Games published the hip-hop music game Def Jam Rapstar[4] on October 5, 2010, in North America[9] and November 26, 2010, in Europe[10] for the PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, and Xbox 360.
4mm Games released Dog Show Friends, a Facebook social game based on The National Dog Show presented by Purina in conjunction with NBC Sports on November 24, 2010.[5]
The company was working with Alli, the Alliance of Action Sports, to create new digital titles based on the organization's events. The plan was to release games based on sports such as snowboarding, skateboarding and motocross, as well as Alli tournaments such as the Dew Tour, Gatorade Free Flow Tour and Winter Dew Tour. According to 4mm, the games would have provided both "bite sized and fully immersive game play experiences" and would be released on a range of platforms, including mobiles, smartphones, TV, and web browser.[11] The first of these games was to have been a free-to-play browser-based skateboarding game called Alli Skate.[6]