Tantalus Media (formerly Tantalus Entertainment and Tantalus Interactive) is an Australian video game developer based in Melbourne. Since its inception, Tantalus has developed almost 100 games and has won multiple game awards.[1] Keywords Studios acquired 85% of Tantalus Media in March 2021.
History
Tantalus Entertainment was founded in 1994 by programmers Andrew Bailey and Trevor Nuridin from Beam Software.[2][3] It was briefly acquired by Perfect Entertainment in 1995, where the company was tasked with porting Stargate to SNES and Wipeout to Sega Saturn.[4] It was sold back to the directors in 1999 and renamed Tantalus Interactive.