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Defunct
  
2005

Successor
  
Take-Two Interactive

Parent organization
  
Take-Two Interactive

Founded
  
1995

Ceased operations
  
2005

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Industry
  
Computer and video game industry

Fate
  
Acquired by Take-Two Interactive in 2000 and shut down in 2005

Key people
  
Jim Rose and John Davidson

Headquarters
  
Balti, Maryland, United States

Video games
  
Battleground, Jagged Alliance 2, Hidden & Dangerous, Battleground 3: Waterloo, Age of Sail II

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.

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TalonSoft was acquired by Take-Two Interactive in early 2000, and operated as a label 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)
  • References

    TalonSoft Wikipedia