Paradox Development

Note
This article is a part of Brenden's Universe, a massive interconnected universe that spans over multiple WIKIAS.

This page contains softwares and IPs that already exist and are owned by different companies. See the Universe Changes to get a better understanding of the way this alternate universe operates.

Basically, any game series or games that I would want to have control over I decided to put them under here. If there is any problems, I can move this article to a different WIKIA if needed.

As articles for certain things are created, I will link them. This is probably going to end up being my most detailed article ever.

Universe Changes

 * Paradox Studios does not exist.
 * Rare does not exist.
 * Bethesda does not exist.
 * Mojang AB was purchased by Paradox in 2011 for 800 million dollars.
 * Assassins Creed and Rainbow Six Siege were developed by Paradox not Ubisoft.
 * Fallout, select Rare titles, and Minecraft post 2011 are developed by Paradox Development.
 * Rainbow Six Siege is called Siege.

Company Founding
Paradox Development was founded in 1984 by entrepreneur Ben Martin in the state of Texas. It is a video game, software, and technology company.

Nintendo Partnership
Paradox Development started a partnership with Nintendo in 1985 that ended in 2002. During the partnership, Paradox would produce games for exclusively for Nintendo. Although, Nintendo did allow them a few games outside of this binding. These were the first two Fallout Games, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel as well as the Battletoads games, which released on multiple consoles.

After the Partnership
Following the partnership, Paradox remained an independent studio due to their successes as well as them entering the software market. They still developed games, but they focused more on softwares until 2007 when the companies focused switched back to video games. They developed websites, they made apps, they made a editing software called Power Editor. When they returned to video games, they followed up on their Fallout series, Elder Scrolls series, as well as their Donkey Kong country series. In 2007, they started a new series called Assassins Creed. In 2008, they released Fallout 3. In 2011, they purchased Mojang for 800 million Dollars. Mojang's titles continued to receive updates as well as Fallout and Assassin's Creed receiving more installments. The Elder Scrolls also received new titles. In 2014, a new game called Gods of Olympus was developed and released. It was based around Greek Mythology. This series continued to see new installments, spin off games, and a novel series that took place in the same universe.

Software
In 2003, following the ending of the Partnership with Nintendo Paradox went into the software business. They're net-worth wasn't doing too well so they needed to make money, and fast. They decided to produce something they knew people would use, a web-browser. Of course, this was only a dream was it was impossible for their small studio to do this. They decided to develop Power Editor, a simple video editor that did things that most simple editors would not do. They charged only $20 for it. They sold it online at their website, but they also sold it in the Mac App Store. In 2018, they developed a mobile port for $1.99. Power Editor made money, but not a lot. Paradox's only real income were from all of the games they were developing. These games barley made anything. In 2005, they decided to start developing websites and apps for other companies. They were contracted under Walmart and the State of Texas (their home state). They also developed websites and apps for 1,000+ small companies from 2005-2006. In 2006, they're dream became a reality. They had been designing their web browser, and in 2006 could finally develop it. Paradox became Google's biggest competitor. The web browser was called Thunder and the logo became a storm cloud with lightning. Thunder reached 2 billion searches a day by 2017. In the 2018 Google Security Scandal, Thunder reached 4 billion searches a day. The ads on the website made Paradox up to $30,000,000,000 a year. In 2011, to compete against Youtube, they designed a video viewing platform called GOVIEW. It never received the amount of success as Youtube, it reached 700,000,000 views a day at its peak. Its ads made Paradox anywhere between $30,000,000-$250,000,000. In 2016, they developed a launcher called Saturn Launcher. The launcher contained all of their games they developed for PC and Mac. In 2018, they developed a new Operating System for their tablets, and soon for their phones. Instead of using Android, they used the Neptune System. It was built so that any Android app/game could run on it. In 2020, they purchased Instagram for $2,000,000,000. They worked a lot on the app. It got weekly bug fixes and changes, and a monthly major update.

Hardware
In 2014, they entered the hardware market. They designed, built, and sold the Martian Tablet. It was priced at $300 and had 3,000,000 sales its first week. In 2015, they released a laptop called Paradox. The joke was, it was a Paradox to figure out why it was so cheap for what it was. Standing at $300 for the same quality as a gaming laptop. They also started producing a line of gaming PCs in 2016. The Butterfly, the Hornet, and the Rex. In 2018, they released the Martian 2, same price, more features, better hardware. They also announced and released a cellphone called the Kuiper. It had a Fortnite Bundle that came with 20,000 VBUCKS and no skin. In 2020, they released a Smart TV.

Paradox Publishing
In 2013, Paradox Development announced a new subsidiary called Paradox Publishing. The company would publish books and other related things. The company was also in charge of the weekly news letter and the magazine Gamer. Paradox Publishing published their first book, Athena in 2014 to go alongside the Gods of Olympus Game. This sparked the concept of writing books to help expand their video game worlds. In 2014, Paradox Publishing released the first set of Minecraft Handbooks. Every year after that, on October 1st they released the set for that year.

Instagram Purchase
In 2020, Mark Zuckerburg got arrested after dozens of charges. Facebook was also fined $15,000,000,000. Paradox purchased Instagram, which was up for question. They were the fastest to make it, and offered $2,000,000,000 for it within hours of the sale going up. From that point forward, Instagram changed. If political bias was detected on the content filtering team, that person would be removed from the team. Instagram supported up to 5 minutes of video.

Net Worth
Thunder is credited to the companies massive Net Worth. In 2018, the company reached a Net Worth of $33,300,000,000. By fourth quarter, this increased to $33,500,000,000. This was credited to the release of the second Martian Tablet, Fallout 76 and the holiday season. By second quarter 2019 though, they dropped back down to $33,100,000,000. This didn't lower spirits though, instead it inspired the company and the developers to continue to develop new updates and games. In 2020, they reached $34,000,000,000 following the release of their new smart TVs and smartphone. They used their newfound riches to purchase Instagram from Facebook following Zuckerburgs arrest, and the $15,000,000,000 fine put on the company. The net-worth increased to $35,000,000,000 in 2022 when Google was officially banned in the US by the FCC, Congress, Referendum, and a presidential signature.

Under Nintendo

 * Wizards and Warriors (1987) [NES]
 * Jeopardy! (1988) [NES]
 * Wheel of Fortune (1988) [NES]
 * Anticipation (1988) [NES]