where is this former company from?
Rockville.
Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland. 
what is sacrifice (video game)? Sacrifice is a real-time strategy video game published by Interplay Entertainment in 2000 for Microsoft Windows platform. how many players can play this game? Up to four players. name few play modes of this game Skirmish, Slaughter, Domination , and Soul Harvest. when did this game's entertainment company begin? 1983. which litigation was it part of? In 2003 with Snowblind Studios and in 2009 with Bethesda Softworks. when did the latter originate? In 1986. who were part of the 1999-2004 lawsuit? Weaver and ZeniMax Media. how did this company expand? Through acquisition of XL Translab.
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Bethesda Softworks [SEP] Introduction
Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland. The company was founded by Christopher Weaver in 1986 as a division of Media Technology Limited, and in 1999 became a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media. In its first fifteen years, it was a video game developer and self-published its titles. In 2001, Bethesda spun off its own in-house development team into Bethesda Game Studios, and Bethesda Softworks retained only its publishing function. As such, Bethesda Softworks acts as the publisher for all games developed by ZeniMax's development studios. In 2020, Microsoft announced that it is acquiring the holding company ZeniMax Media for US$7.5 billion.