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___MASK24___ , Inc . ( formerly Potomac Computer Systems and later Epic MegaGames , Inc .) is an American video game development company based in Cary , North Carolina , partially owned by Tencent . Founded in 1991 , they are best known for their Unreal Engine technology , which has powered their popular in - house " Unreal ", " Gears of War " and " Infinity Blade " series of games . A disk operating system ( abbreviated DOS ) is a computer operating system that can use a disk storage device , such as a floppy disk , hard disk drive , or optical disc . A disk operating system must provide a file system for organizing , reading , and writing files on the storage disk . Strictly speaking , this definition does not apply to current generations operating systems , such as versions of ___MASK32___ Windows in use , while this definition is actually only used for older generations of operating systems . Redwood City is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California ' s Bay Area , approximately south of San Francisco , and north of San Jose . Redwood City ' s history spans its earliest inhabitation by the Ohlone people to being a port for lumber and other goods . The county seat of San Mateo County , it is the home of several technology companies such as Box , Oracle , Evernote , Wealthfront , and ___MASK64___ . At the 2010 census , the city had a population of 76 , 815 . The Port of Redwood City is the only deepwater port on San Francisco Bay south of San Francisco . Redwood City is the location of the San Mateo County Jail , for both women and men . The Malibu Grand Prix long time landmark was recently demolished along with the city ' s only Mini Golf , Go - Kart , Video Game Arcade , and Batting Cages . Malibu Grand Prix ' s previous location is currently the construction site of a new additional Jail and Inmate housing facility . The city has a motto " Climate Best By Government Test " which is a reference to it being one of the top German scouted scientific climates and the city was one of the locations mapped by them during their testing and data collection . The Hetch Hetchy water pipeline runs through Redwood City and supplies a vast majority of the surrounding area with low grain (+/ 3 grains ) rated water . ___MASK26___ is a Canadian computer and video game development studio founded in 1993 by James Schmalz , best known for its co - creation of ___MASK24___ ' highly successful " Unreal " series of games . ___MASK26___ is headquartered in London , Ontario . In 2014 , 61 % of the company was sold to Chinese holding company Multi Dynamic , now Leyou , for $ 73 million . President Michael Schmalz and two partners retained 39 % of ___MASK26___ , and will continue to manage it . Epic Pinball is a 1993 pinball video game developed by James Schmalz and published by Epic MegaGames . The initial release pre - dated Schmalz ' ___MASK26___ name . The game is played seen from a 2D top - down view within a scrollable window with plain raster graphics in 320x200 . It was noted for being programmed entirely in x86 assembly language for MS - DOS systems . The music was composed with Scream Tracker 3 and was converted to the custom PSM format . Extreme Pinball is a 1995 pinball video game published by ___MASK64___ for DOS and PlayStation . It was the first game developed by Digital Extremes , though founder James Schmalz had also previously created Solar Winds , Silverball and Epic Pinball in 1993 . It was released via PlayStation Network in 2010 . All the music tracks for this game were made by Robert A . Allen . x86 is a family of backward compatible instruction set architectures based on the ___MASK43___ 8086 CPU and its ___MASK43___ 8088 variant . The 8086 was introduced in 1978 as a fully 16 - bit extension of ___MASK43___ ' s 8 - bit based 8080 microprocessor , with memory segmentation as a solution for addressing more memory than can be covered by a plain 16 - bit address . The term " x86 " came into being because the names of several successors to ___MASK43___ ' s 8086 processor end in " 86 ", including the 80186 , 80286 , 80386 and 80486 processors . PlayStation Network ( PSN ) is a digital media entertainment service provided by ___MASK56___ Interactive Entertainment . Launched in November 2006 , PSN was originally conceived for the PlayStation video game consoles , but soon extended to encompass smartphones , tablets , Blu - ray players and high - definition televisions . As of April 2016 , over 110 million users have been documented , with 65 million of them active monthly . ___MASK37___ Limited is a Chinese investment holding company whose subsidiaries provide media , entertainment , internet and mobile phone value - added services and operate online advertising services in China . Its headquarters are in Nanshan District , Shenzhen . ___MASK56___ Interactive Entertainment , LLC ., doing business as ___MASK56___ Interactive Entertainment Inc . ( abbreviated as SIE and formerly known as ___MASK56___ Computer Entertainment Inc . ( SCE ) and ___MASK56___ Network Entertainment ) is a multinational video game developer , product manufacturer and research and development company , and is an owned subsidiary and part of the Consumer Products and Services Group of ___MASK56___ . ___MASK32___ Corporation ( commonly referred to as ___MASK32___ or MS ) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond , Washington , that develops , manufactures , licenses , supports and sells computer software , consumer electronics and personal computers and services . Its best known software products are the ___MASK32___ Windows line of operating systems , ___MASK32___ Office office suite , and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers . Its ___MASK60___ hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the ___MASK32___ Surface tablet lineup . As of 2016 , it was the world ' s largest software maker by revenue , and one of the world ' s most valuable companies . FreeDOS ( formerly Free - DOS and PD - DOS ) is a free operating system for ___MASK34___ PC compatible computers . It intends to provide a complete DOS - compatible environment for running legacy software and supporting embedded systems . DR - DOS ( DR DOS , without hyphen up to and including version 6 . 0 ) is an operating system of the DOS family , written for ___MASK34___ PC - compatible personal computers . It was originally developed by Gary Kildall ' s ___MASK76___ and derived from Concurrent PC DOS 6 . 0 , which was an advanced successor of CP / M - 86 . As ownership changed , various later versions were produced with names including Novell DOS and Caldera OpenDOS . Trip Hawkins ( born December 28 , 1953 ) is an American entrepreneur and founder of ___MASK64___ , The 3DO Company , and Digital Chocolate . A video game is an electronic game that involves human or animal interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor . The word " video " in " video game " traditionally referred to a raster display device , but as of the 2000s , it implies any type of display device that can ___MASK36___ two - or three - dimensional images . Some theorists categorize video games as an art form , but this designation is controversial . DOS , short for " disk operating system ", is an acronym used to describe the family of several very similar command - line computer operating systems for x86 - based computers : primarily MS - DOS and PC DOS , but also DR - DOS , FreeDOS , ROM - DOS , and PTS - DOS . None of these systems were officially named " DOS ", and indeed " DOS " is a general term for disk operating system . ___MASK56___ Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the ___MASK56___ Group , which is engaged in business through its four operating components  electronics ( video games , network services and medical business ), motion pictures , music and financial services . These make ___MASK56___ one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world . ___MASK56___ ' s principal business operations include ___MASK56___ Corporation , ___MASK56___ Pictures Entertainment , ___MASK56___ Interactive Entertainment , ___MASK56___ Music Entertainment , ___MASK56___ Mobile ( formerly ___MASK56___ Ericsson ) and ___MASK56___ Financial . ___MASK56___ is among the Semiconductor sales leaders by year and as of 2013 , the fourth - largest television manufacturer in the world , after Samsung Electronics , LG Electronics and TCL . Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977 , and becoming common during the 1980s . They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that , for the first time , were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user . These computers were a distinct market segment that typically cost much less than business , scientific or engineering - oriented computers of the time such as the ___MASK34___ PC , and were generally less powerful in terms of memory and expandability . However , a home computer often had better graphics and sound than contemporaneous business computers . Their most common uses were playing video games , but they were also regularly used for word processing , doing homework , and programming . The original console in the series was the first video game console to ship 100 million units , 9 years and 6 months after its initial launch . Its successor , the PlayStation 2 , was released in 2000 . The PlayStation 2 is the best - selling home console to date , having reached over 155 million units sold as of December 28 , 2012 . ___MASK56___ ' s next console , the PlayStation 3 , was released in 2006 and has sold over 80 million consoles worldwide as of November 2013 . ___MASK56___ ' s latest console , the PlayStation 4 , was released in 2013 , selling 1 million consoles in its first 24 hours on sale , becoming the fastest selling console in history . ___MASK64___ Inc . ( EA ) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City , California . Founded and incorporated on May 28 , 1982 by Trip Hawkins , the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible for its games . As of 2014 , ___MASK64___ was the world ' s fourth - largest gaming company by revenue after Tencent , Sony and Microsoft The company sparked controversies over its advertising efforts , and acquisition of other studios . MS - DOS (; acronym for " ___MASK32___ Disk Operating System ") is a discontinued operating system for x86 - based personal computers mostly developed by ___MASK32___ . It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems , and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s and the early 1990s , when it was gradually superseded by operating systems offering a graphical user interface ( GUI ), in various generations of the graphical ___MASK32___ Windows operating system by ___MASK32___ Corporation . Silverball is a 1993 pinball video game developed by ___MASK26___ and Epic MegaGames and published by MicroLeague Multimedia , Inc .. It is basically a set of " Epic Pinball " tables distributed through retail . Silverball was the first set of pinball games created by James Schmalz and paved the way for the development of Epic Pinball .