From Doom to Words With Friends, many popular games and gaming styles got their start in our corner of the Lone Star State.
Here are five of the gaming companies that call North Texas home.
iD Software (Hometown: Richardson)
was founded in 1991 and produced early side-scrolling video games like and .
The company revolutionized standards in gaming with first-person shooter titles , and .
Employees of iD Software seem to enjoy living in Dallas-Fort Worth and in true Texas fashion they even have a .
Playful Studios (Hometown: McKinney)
Paul Bettner created in 2012. They're known for the franchise of games.
Bettner and his brother also co-created the smash smartphone hit in 2009 which was eventually sold to Zynga for about $53 million.
Lucky's Tale originally sold as a virtual reality game exclusive to the headset. Later renditions of the game made their way to other platforms like the PC, XBOX and PlayStation.
PeopleFun (Hometown: Dallas)
The folks at are responsible for the wildly popular 'Wordscapes' series of mobile games.
They're also known for other wordy games like 'Word Stacks' and 'Word Chums.'
PeopleFun was founded in 2011 by Tony Goodman and John Boog-Scott. Goodman is also the founder of which created the hugelypopular '' series of games.
Robot Entertainment (Hometown: Plano)
is their most notable franchise spanning a total of four games. is also known for creating the series of games and .
Robot Entertainment was founded in 2009 by former team members of gaming company Ensemble Studios.
Gearbox Software (Hometown: Frisco)
Known for the popular series of games, is also responsible for early 2000s hits like and .
is another popular game series created by Gearbox. It has more than 10 sequels, comic books, action figures, a documentary and a TV series is possibly in the works.
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