Alex Garden
Alex Garden is the CEO of Vancouver-based game developer Relic Entertainment, which he co-founded with Luke Moloney in 1997. In February 2005, he founded the company iVALET Systems Inc. to develop an advanced parking system. In July 2005, he co-founded Klei Entertainment, a Vancouver-based video game development studio, with Jamie Cheng. On November 3, 2006, Alex Garden joined Nexon to run Nexon's North American game development studio, Nexon Publishing North America. In October, 2009, Alex Garden joined Microsoft to work in their games division, Microsoft Game Studios. On April 23, 2014, Zynga announced that Alex Garden was hired to become President of Zynga Studios with a start date of May 5, 2014. On 13 April 2016 Alex Garden returned to Relic Entertainment as CEO. In 2016 Garden founded Zume Pizza.
Legend Entertainment
By 1994 games like "Xanth" and "Eric the Unready" gave Legend a reputation for comedy adventures. The company was acquired by GT Interactive in 1998 and began changing their focus to action games. They developed a first-person shooter based on Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time" and finished the development of the second part in the Unreal series in 2002. Late in 2003, they released a free expansion for "", known as XMP ("eXpanded MultiPlayer"). In 1999, GT Interactive was purchased outright by Infogrames, who later acquired and rebranded themselves as Atari.