Gaming Names
by Steve Gibson, Nov 27, 2000 9:47am PSTOne of the most interesting articles I've seen in a while, GameSpy has a bit on the origin of some game company names. They cover companies such as Loki, Firaxis, Barking Dog, Troika, Lionhead, Bethesda, and Gas Powered.
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Just a guess... Steve called first his girlfriend "sugar" and she has a teeth of a shark? So we end up with sugarshark... but Marteen was so drunk and keep on mispelling the name to shugashark.
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Vlatko Andonov: The original name of the company was intended to be Softworks, but this name was taken. So, our founder, sitting at his kitchen table in Bethesda (without his pants on) decided after laborious thought to add Bethesda to Softworks and there you have it!
bethesda's one of my favorites. daggerfall and arena own me, i can't wait for morrowind!!!!
*sob*