Prima Games
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| Prima Games | |
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| Type | Limited |
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| Founded | 1990's |
| Headquarters | Roseville, California |
| Area served | Video game industry |
| Website | http://www.primagames.com/ |
Prima Games, a division of Random House, is the largest publishing company of video game strategy guides in the United States.[1] It is an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, based in Roseville, California.[2]
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[edit] Notable titles
The company has produced over 1,400 titles and boasts over 90 million guides in print.[1] In 2005, Prima introduced electronic distribution of gaming guides.[3] For some guides, like Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar, it worked directly with the developers themselves in producing the guide.[4]
[edit] Erreors in the strategy guides
Prima Guides are well known for naming things wrongly, mysprinting and mispelling a lot, and exsample of one of their errors is calling Shadows super form "Hyper Shadow" in the Sonic Adventure 2 official walkthrough instead of "Super Shadow".
[edit] Contributors
Writers of strategy guides for Prima Games include
- Eric Mylonas
- Rusel DeMaria
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b About Prima Games. Prima Games. Retrieved on February 19, 2007.
- ^ Prima Publishing To Be Realigned Within The Crown Publishing Group. Random House. Retrieved on February 24, 2007.
- ^ IGN's Direct2Drive to Offer Downloadable Prima Guides. IGN. Retrieved on February 24, 2007.
- ^ Snider, Mike. "Strategy guides are as hot as video games." USA Today. December 10, 2004.
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