Paramount Digital Entertainment

Paramount Digital Entertainment at a Glance

If you are browsing PlayPile looking for a studio with a wide range of licenses, you will find Paramount Digital Entertainment. This United States company started in 1993 but only began releasing games between 2008 and 2014. Their catalog on our site contains just eleven titles, with the company acting as publisher for all of them and developer for one. The bulk of their work came in the 2010s when they released eight games, while the 2000s saw only three releases. Their output spans many genres, though they lean heavily toward simulators with three titles. They also published two shooters and single entries in adventure, hack and slash, fighting, platformer, music, arcade, racing, and sport categories. The platforms they targeted were dominated by older console hardware. Seven games appeared on Xbox 360, five on PlayStation 3, and three on PC. Smaller numbers of ports landed on iOS, Android, Mac, Wii, and Nintendo DS. The quality of their library shows a clear trend toward mediocrity. Six of their titles have user ratings, and the average score sits at 45.7 out of 100. There are no great games in their history with scores above 80. They have two good titles that scored between 60 and 79, two mixed entries scoring from 40 to 59, and two poor games rated below 40. Their highest-rated releases include Rango from 2011 at 64 points and Grease from 2010 at 60 points. Other notable titles like Star Trek: D-A-C scored 50, while The War of the Worlds and The Warriors: Street Brawl received 40 and 35 respectively. Recent releases did not show improvement. World War Z in May 2013 dropped to a 25 rating, and Scene It? Movie Night in late 2011 failed to reach critical favor. Paramount Digital Entertainment operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures to distribute movies and video games digitally across online, mobile, and portable devices. Their brief window of activity resulted in a small footprint in the industry. The low average ratings suggest their projects rarely met high standards for gameplay or polish. Fans of licensed games might find some nostalgia here, but the data indicates these releases were generally average or worse.

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