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Nadeo is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 video game developer
Video game developer
A video game developer is a software developer that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.Most developers also...

, based in Issy-les-Moulineaux
Issy-les-Moulineaux
Issy-les-Moulineaux is a commune in the southwestern suburban area of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. On 1 January 2003, Issy-les-Moulineaux became part of the Communauté d'agglomération Arc de Seine along with the other communes of Chaville, Meudon, Vanves and Ville-d'Avray...

, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. They are the developers of the TrackMania
TrackMania
TrackMania is a series of racing games for the Windows PC, Nintendo DS and Wii platforms, originally developed by the French team Nadéo for the PC...

, QuestMania, ShootMania
ShootMania
ShootMania is an upcoming first-person shooter video game by Ubisoft and Nadeo. It is based on the TrackMania games by Nadeo.Just like its sister-games, TrackMania 2 and QuestMania, it will feature 3 different environments...

 and Virtual Skipper series of video games.

In February of 2010, advertisements began appearing occasionally on TrackMania load screens for Nadeo's ShootMania and QuestMania, presumably a first-person shooter
First-person shooter
First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...

 and RPG
Role-playing game (video games)
Role-playing video games are a video game genre with origins in pen-and-paper role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, using much of the same terminology, settings and game mechanics. The player in RPGs controls one character, or several adventuring party members, fulfilling one or many quests...

, respectively. There were websites created for both of these games: ShootMania.com and QuestMania.com, currently offering nothing in exception of backgrounds, presenting its game through advertisements shown in TrackMania. On October 5, 2009, the company was acquired by French publisher Ubisoft
Ubisoft
Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....

.

Games

Almost all games are for Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, and have been published through Focus Home Interactive
Focus Home Interactive
Focus Home Interactive is an independent publisher of computer games based near Paris, France. Founded in 1996, Focus has published and distributed original titles such as Blood Bowl, Sherlock Holmes, TrackMania and Runaway and sports games like Cycling Manager and Virtual Skipper.On June 25, 2010...

 (and international partners). :

1999 :
  • Virtual Skipper


2002 :
  • Virtual Skipper 2


2003 :
  • TrackMania
    TrackMania
    TrackMania is a series of racing games for the Windows PC, Nintendo DS and Wii platforms, originally developed by the French team Nadéo for the PC...

  • Virtual Skipper 3


2004 :
  • Trackmania: Power Up!


2005 :
  • TrackMania Sunrise
  • TrackMania Original
  • Virtual Skipper 4
  • TrackMania Sunrise: eXtreme!


2006 :
  • TrackMania Nations
  • TrackMania United


2007 :
  • Virtual Skipper 5: 32nd America's Cup: The Game
    Virtual Skipper 5: 32nd America's Cup: The Game
    Virtual Skipper 5 is the 5th installment of Nadeo's Virtual Skipper series for Windows. Its a series of sailing simulator games targeted at semi experienced sailors rather than normal gamers. This installment concentrates particularly on the 32nd America's cup held in Valencia Spain in 2007. The...



2008 :
  • Trackmania United Forever
  • Trackmania Nations Forever


2011 :
  • TrackMania 2: Canyon


2012 :
  • QuestMania
  • ShootMania
    ShootMania
    ShootMania is an upcoming first-person shooter video game by Ubisoft and Nadeo. It is based on the TrackMania games by Nadeo.Just like its sister-games, TrackMania 2 and QuestMania, it will feature 3 different environments...


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