TalonSoft

Talonsoft, Inc.

Industry	Computer and video game industry
Founded	1995
Defunct	2005
Fate	Acquired by Take-Two Interactive in 2000 and shut down in 2005
Successor	Take-Two Interactive
Headquarters	Baltimore, Maryland
Key people	Jim Rose and John Davidson
Parent	Take-Two Interactive from 2000

Talonsoft, Inc. was a Baltimore, Maryland-based computer game developer founded in 1995 by Jim Rose and John Davidson. The company specialized in wargames; many of its releases were acclaimed within the wargaming community.

TalonSoft was acquired by Take-Two Interactive in early 2000, and operated as a brand of Take-Two until it was shut down in 2005. In October 2005, Matrix Games acquired the publication rights to most of the TalonSoft catalog, including the Battleground, Campaign, and Operational Art of War series.

Games developed and published by TalonSoft

• Battleground series
  • Battleground: Bulge-Ardennes (1995)
  • Battleground 2: Gettysburg (1995)
  • Battleground 3: Waterloo (1996)
  • Battleground 4: Shiloh (1996)
  • Battleground 5: Antietam (1996)
  • Battleground 6: Napoleon in Russia (1997)
  • Battleground 7: Bull Run (1997)
  • Battleground 8: Prelude to Waterloo (1997)
  • Battleground 9: Chickamauga (1999)
  • Battleground 10: Middle East (1997)
  • Battleground 11: East Front (1997)
• Age of Sail series
  • Age of Sail (1996)
  • Age of Sail II (2001)
• Campaign series
  • West Front (1998)
  • East Front II (1999)
  • Rising Sun (2000)
  • Divided Ground: Middle East Conflict (2001)
• The Operational Art of War series
  • The Operational Art of War Volume I (1998)
  • The Operational Art of War II (1999)
• Age of Ironclads (1997, possibly cancelled)
• 12 O'Clock High: Bombing the Reich (1999)
• Gettysburg: The American Civil War (2006)
• John Tiller's Campaign Series (2007)

Games published by TalonSoft

• Tribal Rage (1998)
• Battle of Britain (1999)
• Hidden & Dangerous (1999)
• Jagged Alliance 2 (1999)
• Spec Ops II: Green Berets (1999)
• Spec Ops II: Operation Bravo (2000)
• Hidden & Dangerous: Devil's Bridge (2000)
• Jetfighter IV (2000)
• Martian Gothic: Unification (2000)
• Codename Eagle (2000)
• Dogs of War (2000)
• Metal Fatigue (2000)
• Spec Ops: Stealth Patrol (2000)
• Spec Ops: Ranger Elite (2000)
• Tzar: The Burden of the Crown (2000)
• Merchant Prince II (2001)
• StarLeader (2001)
• Outlive (2001)

External links

• MobyGames' entry on TalonSoft
• Interview: Matrix Acquires Talonsoft License at The Wargamer