BreakAway Games

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BreakAway Games is a game developer based in Hunt Valley, Maryland established in 1998. While relatively recent, their executive staff is composed of several veterans from companies such as MicroProse, Origin Systems, Atari, Ion Storm, and Acclaim Entertainment.

Since 1998, BreakAway has distinguished itself as a developer of award winning simulation games in a variety of genres. The company’s combined talents have over 220 entertainment titles for the retail market to their credit in partnership with companies such as Sierra Online, Hasbro, The Walt Disney Company, and ABC Sports.

BreakAway Games first established themselves in the strategy game market (usually, with expansions), with titles such as Sid Meier's Antietam (1998), the 2000 expansion Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile for Pharaoh, Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Battle (2001), Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory, the Paradise Island expansion for Tropico and Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (2002) and the 2003 expansion Civilization III Conquests.

BreakAway is one of the largest developers of serious games, having developed several high-profile serious games for the U.S. military and the U.S. Department of Justice as well as various health and charity organizations. The company has strategic relationships with AAI, Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton, GMA Industries, and General Dynamics, among others. The company's ability to form such relationships is the direct result of many years of experience developing military models and operational PC-based warfare simulations for the military. The US Army's Training and Doctrine Command, The Office of the Secretary of Defense Net Assessment (OSD), the Army War College, the Navy War College, the National Defense University, the Joint Forces Command Joint Experimentation Directorate and many other governmental and military organizations have also used BreakAway-developed software.

BreakAway is also the prime developer of Pulse!!, a medical treatment training simulation being developed in conjunction with Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, Texas.

In late 2004, the company opened a new studio in Austin, Texas dedicated to next generation console development as well as serious games development.