Oxide Games
Oxide Games is an American video game developer based in Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland. The studio was founded in January 2013 by Brad Wardell and former Firaxis employees Dan Baker, Marc Meyer, Brian Wade, and Tim Kipp. History Oxide Games focuses primarily on games and game engines for the Personal computer (PC). Initially founded to develop a next-generation game engine and games to use it the studio developed the Nitrous engine to take advantage of new graphics APIs that allowed multiple CPU cores to simultaneously access the GPU such as DirectX 12 and Mantle (API). The studio's first release of its Nitrous technology came in the form of Star Swarm, a demonstration of thousands of 3D entities on screen to demonstrate the potential of a multicore rendering and task system. In 2016, the studio's first game was published by Stardock, Ashes of the Singularity. It was the first game to make use of DirectX 12 after previously making a pre-beta version of it available as a benchmark for the new API. The studio's founders helped contributed to High-Level Shader Language (HLSL) and have worked on several notable titles including Civilization, Command and Conquer, and Galactic Civilizations series. On June 12, 2022 as