Tri Synergy

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Tri Synergy, Inc.
Company type Private
Industry Video game publisher
Founded1996
Headquarters Dallas, Texas

Tri Synergy is a video game publisher founded in 1996 in Dallas, Texas. They specialize in co-publishing [1] games made by a variety of developers.

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Games

YearTitleOther notes
1998 Gunmetal
2000 The Longest Journey
2001 Jazz and Faust [2]
2001 Shattered Galaxy
2003 One Must Fall: Battlegrounds
2003 Runaway: A Road Adventure
2003 Bandits: Phoenix Rising [3]
2003The Gladiators: Galactic Circus Games [4]
2003 Knight Rider: The Game [5]
2004Midnight Nowhere [6]
2004 Firepower
2004 Wings of Power: WWII Heavy Bombers and Jets
2005 80 Days
2006 Wings of Power II: WWII Fighters
2007 Ghost in the Sheet
2008 Limbo of the Lost
2015Bosch's Damnation
2015Shades of Black
2015Abandoned: Chestnut Lodge Asylum

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References

  1. http://trisynergy.com/index.php/about-us
  2. "Jazz and Faust (2001) Windows release dates".
  3. "'Bandits: Phoenix Rising' Signs with Tri Synergy".
  4. "The Gladiators: Galactic Circus Games (2002) Windows box cover art".
  5. "Tri Synergy Releases Knight Rider for the PC". 4 May 2012.
  6. "Tri Synergy signs Midnight Nowhere".