Matrix Games is a publisher of computer games, specifically strategy games and wargames. They are based out of Epsom, Surrey (UK) with subsidiary offices in Arlington, Vermont, Milan, Italy and Edmonton, Alberta. Matrix Games/Slitherine also own and financially support the online game reviewing publication The Wargamer (www.wargamer.com).
Their focus is primarily but not exclusively on war games and turn-based strategy. The product line-up also includes space sims (Starshatter: The Gathering Storm), sports management sims (Maximum-Football), and real-time strategy titles (Close Combat: Cross of Iron).
Matrix Games publishes games from a variety of developers, including SSG, 2by3 Games, Panther Games, Koios Works, Destroyer Studios, Western-Civilization and AGEOD.
Matrix Games was founded by David Heath in 1999 in Staten Island, New York. As of January 2010, Matrix Games has published over 75+ titles. Matrix has in-house artists, programmers, and producers which all take active roles in projects of smaller wargame developers who lack the resources to hire full-time staff otherwise.
In May 2010 Matrix Games and Slitherine announced a merger of the two companies making it the largest wargaming specialist publisher. Matrix Games pioneered the move into digital delivery, minimising costs to customers and providing them with an interactive environment. They have signed some of the best known developers in the strategy / Wargaming market from established wargames developers like Gary Grigsby, John Tiller, Mark Walker, Don Gilman, Norm Korger, Panther Games, and Strategic Studies Group to innovators as well as classic titles from Talonsoft, Boku Strategy Games and the Close Combat series.
Matrix Games' involvement with the development of the products it publishes, they claim, is a key part of their philosophy, as stated on their website:
The most important philosophy of our company is we love what we make. We’re gamers first and then we take our love of games and put them into our products. The result has been a tremendous success.
Awards won for Matrix Games products include:
PC Gamers Editors' Choice Award 93% for Korsun Pocket November 2003Computer Games Magazine - Top 10 of 2005 for Star ChamberComputer Gaming World - Wargame of the Year for Korsun Pocket 2003Computer Gaming World - Wargame of the Year for Battles in Normandy 200432nd Annual Origins Awards 2006 Vanguard Award for World At War32nd Annual Origins Awards 2006 Lock n' Load Band of HeroesCharles S. Roberts Award 2007 for Guns of AugustCharles S. Roberts Award 2007 for Empires in ArmsAcross the Dnepr: Korsun Pocket Add-onAcross the Dnepr: Second EditionAdvanced Tactics: GoldArmada 2526Armored BrigadeBanzai! : For Pacific FightersBattlefrontBattleground Europe - World War II OnlineBattlegrounds: American Civil WarBattlegrounds: Napoleonic WarsBattles in ItalyBattles In NormandyBirth of AmericaBlitzkrieg: War in Europe 1939-1945Campaign Series: Matrix EditionCampaigns On The DanubeCarriers at WarCase Blue : For IL-2 or Forgotten BattlesChariots of WarClose Combat: Cross of IronClose Combat: Modern TacticsClose Combat: Wacht am RheinClose Combat: The Longest DayCombined Arms: World War IICommand Ops: Battles from the BulgeCommand: Modern Air / Naval OperationsCommander - Europe at War GoldConquest! Medieval RealmsConquest of the AegeanCrown of Glory: Emperor's EditionDistant WorldsEmpire in Arms: The Napoleonic Wars of 1805–1815Field of GloryField of Glory - Rise of RomeField of Glory - Storm of ArrowsFlashpoint GermanyFor Liberty!Forge of Freedom: The American Civil War 1861-1865Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the ReichGary Grigsby's War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945Gary Grigsby's World At WarGary Grigsby's World at War: A World DividedGates of TroyGuns of AugustHannibal: Rome and Carthage in the Second Punic War designed by Forced March GamesHarpoon 3 - Advanced Naval WarfareHighway to the ReichHired Guns: The Jagged EdgeHorse and Musket: Volume 1Korsun PocketLegion Arena GoldLock 'n Load: Band of HeroesMassive AssaultMaximum-FootballNorm Koger's The Operational Art of War IIIOfficers - The Matrix EditionOperation Barbarossa - The Struggle for RussiaPacific War: Matrix EditionPanzer Command: Operation Winter StormPanzercorps: WehrmachtPureSim Baseball 2007Reach for the StarsScourge of War: GETTYSBURGSmugglers IV - DoomsdaySpartanStar Chamber: The Harbinger SagaStarshatter: The Gathering StormStarships Unlimited - Divided GalaxiesStarships Unlimited v3Steel Panthers: World at War - Generals EditionStorm over the PacificSupremacy: Four Paths To PowerThe Last Days : For IL-2 Forgotten BattlesTin Soldiers: Alexander the GreatTin Soldiers: Julius CaesarTitans of Steel: Warring SunsUFO: ExtraterrestrialsUncommon ValorWar in Russia: Matrix EditionWar In The PacificWar In The Pacific - Admiral's EditionWar Plan Orange: Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1922 - 1930World in FlamesWorld War One - La Grande GuerraWorld War One GoldWorld War II: General CommanderWorld War 2: Time of WrathCombined Arms: World War IIMark H. Walker's Lock 'n Load: Heroes of Stalingrad
