Kuma Reality Games

Kuma Games
Video game developer
Industry Computer and video game industry
Founded 2003
Headquarters New York City, New York, U.S.
Products Video games
Website www.KumaGames.com

Kuma Games is an American video game developer. They have specialized in developing free episodic first person shooters (FPS) since 2004.[1] The company has also created a number of machinima movies for their games, particularly The Dinohunters.[2]

Kuma Games; along with their original properties Kuma\War and Dinohunters also produces games based on other TV properties such as The History Channel's Dogfights and ShootOut! series,[3] as well as The Kill Point for Spike TV.[4]

Kuma, LLC has its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.[5]

Gamisodes

Kuma Reality Games currently produces eleven major game titles. All are available to download for free. Kuma Reality Games ceased production of new episodes for Kuma War Classics, but the game is still available for free download. Despite recent controversy, all KUMA Games published have an ESRB rating of T due to legal issues. Most of the games are built on Valve Corporation's Source engine.

Other Projects

Controversy

In December 18, 2011, an alleged CIA agent being held in Tehran said in a report that he has worked for Kuma as a CIA operative.[9] The report which was aired by Iranian state TV alleged that Kuma acts as a cover-up machine for CIA media war operations and has links with DARPA.

The channel named the alleged agent as Amir Mirza Hekmati and said he joined the US Marine Corp and was employed by the military intelligence section in 2001 and had a decade of intelligence training. The report said Hekmati was sent to the US-run Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and given access to classified US intelligence before flying to Tehran to try to entice the Iranians with it and establish his value to them.

Television report said Hekmati had worked for the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) between 2005 and 2007.

“After DARPA, I was recruited by Kuma Games Company, a computer games company which received money from CIA to design and make special films and computer games to change the public opinion’s mindset in the Middle East and distribute them among Middle East residents free of charge. The goal of Kuma Games was to convince the people of the world and Iraq that what the US does in Iraq and other countries is good and acceptable,” [10] Hekmati alleged in the report.

According to an interview on December 20, 2011 with The Daily Telegraph, Hekmati's father states that he was not a CIA spy as authorities in the country claim and was visiting relatives when he was detained.[11] Finally, an Iranian court sentenced Hekmati to death on espionage charges.[12] KUMA officials told Kotaku in 2006 that the company has done contract work for the U.S. government, designing gaming technology to help train the armed forces, but it has primarily presented itself as a gaming company that caters to civilians.[13]

See also

Notes

  1. Klaassen, Abbey (August 20, 2007). "Turning Video-Game Development Into TV-Size Chunks". Advertising Age. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
  2. Kuma Reality Games. (2004) Kuma\War. [PC], New York: Kuma Reality Games.
  3. Andy Chalk. "Kuma Joins With History Channel For Dogfights Program". Escapistmagazine.com. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
  4. 1 2 Fritz, Ben (2007-07-19). "Spike ties videogame to series". Variety.
  5. "KUMA ONLINE SERVICE RULES AND DISCLAIMERS EULA." Kuma Games. Retrieved on December 24, 2014. "Kuma Games, 15 W 36th St. New York, NY 10018"
  6. "'War' is Over! 106 Missions Later, Gamers Take Down bin Laden in Final Episode of KUMA\WAR II". May 6, 2011.
  7. John Gaudiosi (June 4, 2007). "History's 'Dogfights' flies online with Kuma game". The Hollywood Reporter.
  8. Kuma plays war games Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  9. Burleigh, Marc (December 18, 2011). "Iran TV shows 'CIA spy' speaking of alleged mission". AFP. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
  10. "Transcript - Confessions of the arrested CIA spy aired on Iranian TV". Tehran Times. December 18, 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
  11. "Father of captured 'US spy' says his son never worked for the CIA". The Telegraph. December 20, 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
  12. "Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, alleged U.S. spy, sentenced to death in Iran". Washington Post. January 9, 2011. Retrieved January 11, 2011.
  13. Totilo, Stephen (December 19, 2011). "Alleged Iranian Spy ‘Confesses’ that U.S. Video Game Company is CIA Propaganda Tool". Kotaku. Retrieved December 27, 2011.

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