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Carbonated Games was the first-party game developer studio for Microsoft Casual Games in Microsoft Game Studios. It was founded and run by Joshua Howard, and was active from 2004 until its disbanding on March 27, 2008. Carbonated Games developers were located in Redmond, WA; Hyderabad, India; and Beijing, China. Its alumni went on to Hidden City Games, Microsoft Aces (Microsoft Flight Simulator), Hourglass Games, the Microsoft Xbox Live Arcade group, GameHouse, Amazing Society, Realtime Worlds, Playdom, PopCap Games and DigiPen Institute of Technology. During its tenure, the studio created games for Xbox Live Arcade, MSN Messenger, MSN Games, and Microsoft Surface, including:
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Fable II Pub Games — Xbox 360 (2008); the last game created by the Carbonated studio
Flowerz -- MSN Games (2008); the last game released under the Carbonated logo
Jigsaw Too -- MSN Games (2008)
Hexic 2 — Xbox 360 (2007)
Aegis Wing — Xbox 360 (2007)
Rock, Paper, Scissors -- MSN Messenger (2007)
Tic Tac Toe -- MSN Messenger (2007)
Firefly -- Microsoft Surface (2007)
Hop It! -- MSN Games (2007)
Solitaire In Motion -- MSN Games (2007)
GoPets -- MSN Messenger (2007)
Jigsaw -- MSN Messenger (2007)
Sudoku Too -- MSN Games (2007)
Sudoku -- MSN Messenger (2006)
Solitaire Showdown -- MSN Messenger (2006)
Minesweeper Flags -- MSN Messenger (2006)
Texas Hold 'Em Poker -- MSN Games (2006)
Uno — Xbox 360, MSN Games, MSN Messenger (2006)
Hexic HD — Xbox 360 (2005)
Catan: The Computer Game -- MSN Games (2005)
You Know It! Trivia -- MSN Games (2005)
Hexic — Xbox, MSN Games, MSN Messenger
7 Hand Poker — MSN Messenger
Mozaki Blocks -- MSN Games
Carbonated Games also shipped Backgammon, Chess, Checkers, Hearts, Spades, and other casual games. In addition, Carbonated was responsible for the Microsoft games that shipped with Windows Me, Windows XP, and Windows 7.
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Q&A: Carbonated Talks Uno!, Windows Live, Gamasutra.com
A Carbonated Games photo blog by Rachel Rutherford, circa 2006
A "Casually Speaking" interview with Carbonated Games producer Jason Mai on Solitaire In Motion, zone.msn.com
A "Casually Speaking" interview with Carbonated Games developer Alexander Jhin on Hop It!, zone.msn.com
A "Casually Speaking" interview with Carbonated Games developer Paul Furio, on Hop It!, zone.msn.com
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