Company type | Private |
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Industry | Video games |
Founded | 2000 |
Headquarters | London EC1V ODP, United Kingdom |
Website | xicat.com (archived) |
Xicat Interactive was a video game publisher with distribution across Europe and North America. Xicat held several significant licenses, including Gothic; Motor Trend; Jane's Combat Simulations; and Guns & Ammo.
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Gothic is a 2001 action role-playing video game developed by Piranha Bytes for Microsoft Windows and the first game of the game series of the same name. It was released on 15 March 2001 in Germany, on 30 October 2001 in Europe, on 23 November 2001 in North America and on 28 March 2002 in Poland. A Nintendo Switch port, titled Gothic Classic, was released worldwide on September 28, 2023.
The 9×19mm Parabellum is a rimless, centerfire, tapered firearms cartridge.
The .25 ACP, also known as the .25 Auto, .25 Automatic, or 6.35×16mmSR) is a semi-rimmed, straight-walled centerfire pistol cartridge introduced by John Browning in 1905 alongside the Fabrique Nationale M1905 pistol.
Guerrilla B.V. is a Dutch first-party video game developer based in Amsterdam and part of PlayStation Studios. The company was founded as Lost Boys Games in January 2000 through the merger of three smaller development studios as a subsidiary of multimedia conglomerate company Lost Boys. Lost Boys Games became independent the following year and was acquired by Media Republic in 2003, renaming the studio to Guerrilla Games before being purchased by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2005. As of June 2021, the company employs 360 people under the leadership of joint studio directors Jan-Bart van Beek, Joel Eschler and Hella Schmidt. It is best known for the Killzone and Horizon game series.
The UKM-2000 is a 7.62×51mm NATO general-purpose machine gun designed and manufactured by Zakłady Mechaniczne Tarnów in Tarnów, Poland.
Point Blank, known as Gun Bullet, or Gunvari in Japan, is a series of light gun shooter games developed by Namco for the arcade, PlayStation and Nintendo DS; the trilogy was first released in arcade in 1994 and was later ported onto the PlayStation. Point Blank DS was released in 2006 for the Nintendo DS featuring 40 challenges from the original series.
Jane's Combat Simulations was a brand of combat flight simulators and naval warfare games published for DOS and Windows by Electronic Arts from 1995 to 2000, and later by other companies under license by Jane's Information Group. It is named after editor and publisher of military reference books Fred T. Jane.
Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes is a third-person shooter video game developed by n-Space and published by Infogrames. It is a spin-off of 3D Realms' Duke Nukem series of video games.
MediEvil 2 is a 2000 action-adventure game developed by SCE Cambridge Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It is the second instalment of the MediEvil series and a sequel to MediEvil. Taking place 500 years after the events of the first game, it follows series' protagonist Sir Daniel Fortesque's revival in Victorian-era London as he attempts to stop sorcerer Lord Palethorn and Jack the Ripper's plans to terrorise the city by raising the dead.
Kelly McCann, also known as Jim Grover. He has been a long time columnist for Black Belt Magazine as well. McCann is a former Major in the US Marine Corps and the founder and former owner of Crucible Security Specialists located in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Crucible is a GSA approved facility which provides high-risk environment training and security services to the US Government and armed forces. McCann is a writer and has appeared as a commentator on US Cable News Channels such as Fox and CNN amassing over 1,000 on—air interviews. In 2012 McCann created the Kembativz Brand, LLC with Michelle Washington. The company focuses on teaching individual protective measures to civilians and corporate clients. Kembativz Brand still includes several government agencies and law enforcement organizations among their clients. Kembativz Brand has conducted training across the US and internationally for various groups, agencies, allied armed forces, corporations and LEO's. McCann also co-owns and operates Renegade Combat Sports with Michelle Washington and their fighters compete regionally and nationally. Renegade Combat Sports holds four Championship belts in the Bantamweight and Heavyweight divisions. McCann was inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame in 2008.
Codename: Outbreak is a first-person shooter video game developed by Ukrainian GSC Game World and published by Virgin Interactive. It is set during the early 21st century. Prior to the start of the game, a meteor shower arrives containing a parasitic alien life form that takes control of their hosts. The invasion is fast spreading. The game involves fighting off this alien invasion over 14 different levels.
The 5 mm Remington Rimfire Magnum or 5 mm RFM is a bottlenecked rimfire cartridge introduced by Remington Arms Company in 1969. Remington chambered it in a pair of bolt-action rifles, the Model 591 and Model 592, but this ammunition never became very popular, and the rifles were discontinued in 1974. About 52,000 rifles and 30,000 barrels for the T/C Contender pistol were sold during its brief production run. Remington discontinued the cartridge itself in 1982, leaving owners with no source of ammunition.
The Kimber Aegis is a series of M1911 pistols chambered in 9mm Luger as well as .45 ACP and is manufactured by Kimber Manufacturing. It includes the subcompact Ultra Aegis II, the compact Pro Aegis II, and the full-sized Custom Aegis II.
GunBroker.com is an auction website for firearms and shooting accessories.
Aria the Scarlet Ammo is a Japanese light novel series written by Chūgaku Akamatsu and illustrated by Kobuichi. As of June 2024, 41 main volumes have been published by Media Factory under their MF Bunko J label. A manga adaptation by Yoshino Koyoka started serialization in the seinen manga magazine Monthly Comic Alive in September 2009. An anime adaptation aired between April and June 2011. An original video animation (OVA) episode was released on December 21, 2011. A spin-off manga titled Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA by Shogako Tachibana was serialized in Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine from November 2010 to May 2018, with an anime adaptation by Doga Kobo airing between October and December 2015.
Black Stone: Magic & Steel, known in Japan as Ex-Chaser, is a role-playing video game developed by XPEC Entertainment and published by Xicat Interactive for the Xbox. The theme song is "be with you" by Chihiro Yonekura.
The 7.62×51mm NATO is a rimless, straight walled, bottlenecked rifle cartridge. It is a standard for small arms among NATO countries.
Guns & Ammo is a magazine dedicated to firearms, hunting, competitive shooting, reloading, and other shooting-related activities in the United States.
The Smith & Wesson M&P10 is Smith & Wesson's modified version of the AR-10 rifle.
Vigor is a free-to-play online survival shooter game originally developed for the Xbox One by the Czech studio Bohemia Interactive. As of July 2020, it is also available on the Nintendo Switch. Initially released as an early access title in August 2018, the game was fully released on August 19, 2019. A PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 port was released on December 9, 2020. On September 18, 2024, Vigor was released on Steam as well, after being there in Early Access for 4 months.