Rainmaker Entertainment, Inc.
Moby ID: 2157
- Mainframe Entertainment, Inc. (from 1993 to 2007-01)
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Mainframe Entertainment, founded in 1993, was one of the leading companies in the area of CG animation for television, direct-to-video DVD, theatrical feature films, interactive games and commercials, with offices in Vancouver (Mainframe Vancouver) and Los Angeles (Mainframe USA).
The company worked on well-known international brands such as Barbie, Hot Wheels, Spider-Man, Casper and Popeye. Its claim to fame, however, was its production of the pioneering CGI animated series ReBoot (which spawned the PSX game ReBoot, as well as the acclaimed Transformers spin-off Beast Wars (also made into a game called Beast Wars: Transformers.
In 2006, US-based IDT Entertainment, which held a 62% majority stake in Mainframe, sold the company to another major Canadian player in the digital entertainment market, Rainmaker. After the merger, the team was integrated in the new company as a new division, Rainmaker Animation. However, the individual studios kept the Mainframe name after the renaming.
Credited on 12 Games from 1998 to 2014
| Dead Rising 3: Apocalypse Edition (2014 on Windows, Xbox One) |
| Dead Rising 3 (2013 on Xbox One) |
| Prototype 2 (2012 on Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) |
| Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (2012 on Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3...) |
| Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (2011 on Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3...) |
| Driver: San Francisco (2011 on Windows, Xbox 360, Macintosh...) |
| Dead Rising 2 (2010 on Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) |
| Ghostbusters: The Video Game (2009 on PlayStation 2, PSP, Wii) |
| Ghostbusters: The Video Game (2009 on Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) |
| Stuntman: Ignition (2007 on PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3...) |
| The Outfit (2006 on Xbox 360) |
| ReBoot (1998 on PlayStation) |
History +
- January 2007
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The company is renamed Rainmaker Entertainment.
- 1993
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Company founded.
Trivia +
Location and contact information in 2009:
Rainmaker Entertainment
Suite 500, 2025 West Broadway
Vancouver, B.C.
Canada
V6J 1Z6
Phone: +1 604 714 2600
Fax: +1 604 714 2641
Website: www.mainframe.ca
Related Web Sites +
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Rainmaker Entertainment, Inc.
official site -
Wikipedia: Rainmaker Animation
article in the open encyclopedia
Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 4 games with Capcom Game Studio Vancouver, Inc.
- 4 games with Valve Corporation
- 4 games with Capcom Co., Ltd.
- 4 games with Keywords Studios QC-Interactive Inc.
- 4 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 3 games with CE Europe Ltd.
- 3 games with Blur Studio, Inc.
- 3 games with ak tronic Software & Services GmbH
- 3 games with Pole Position Production
- 3 games with dbc Sound inc.
- 5 games with Keith Ferguson
- 5 games with Yuri Lowenthal
- 5 games with Fred Tatasciore
- 4 games with Alicia Kim
- 4 games with Scott McNeil
- 4 games with Joseph Greer
- 4 games with Peter Benson
- 4 games with André Sogliuzzo
- 4 games with Cedric Lee
- 4 games with Takashi Kubozono
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