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Company Background
Headquartered in Westwood, MA, with a development studio in Santa Monica, CA, Turbine, Inc. is a leading producer and publisher of online subscription entertainment. Turbine has established a position at the forefront of the massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) space with its ability to create living worlds and empower players to drive the game play experience.

Turbine is currently developing the first Lord of the Rings online role playing game, The Lord of the Rings^TM: Middle-Earth^TM Online with Vivendi Universal Games and developing and self- funding Dungeons & Dragons® Online with publishing partner Atari. Both break-through titles will join Turbine?s roster of memorable games: Asheron?s Call®, Asheron?s Call: Dark Majesty® and Asheron?s Call 2: Fallen Kings®.

Formed in 1994 by a team of entrepreneurs who shared a vision of becoming the premier provider of online subscription entertainment, Turbine is now one of only a handful of companies to have sucessfully launched an MMOG service. The company has grown to more than 200 employees, launched three successful titles, and works with some of the best partners in the business. A privately held company, Turbine, Inc. is now one of the most successful companies in the online video games industry.
Technology
The Company?s patented Turbine Engine® technology produces some of the most sophisticated graphics available for MMOGs to date. This technology is at the forefront of the industry in its capacity to create, host, and maintain three-dimensional living worlds.

The Turbine Engine® is a powerful system that eases the development of large-scale virtual worlds. The engine employs a sophisticated world model, cutting-edge client technologies, and content creation tools that move most of the labor of world creation out of the hands of programmers and into the hands of artists and designers. This wholly owned, patented, internally developed technology allows Turbine to create new worlds with greater efficiency

The Turbine Engine® is a proven technology that delivers an unmatched level of immersion to users through its ability to grow and change dramatically over time, continuing to raise the innovation bar for future online persistent world technologies.