Rights

For a list of people who worked on Oni, see Credits.

This is a list of all known companies involved with Oni. This information comes from the manuals, the box art, and community knowledge. Some companies' rights may have lapsed since Oni's release in 2001, so in one column we list the rights that were held at one time, then we give the current status of those rights to the best of our knowledge.

For a table showing which companies' logos appear on different versions of Oni's packaging, see Logos; for pictures of the boxes and discs, see Category:Packaging images. Note that the logos on the boxes are not always thorough or even accurate with regards to rights.

Many people erroneously believe that Bungie still owns Oni's IP, or that Microsoft owns it since they bought Bungie before Oni's release. For the story of how Take-Two came to own Oni, see the Oni article's Buyout section.

Since the distributors of the Windows and Mac versions are no longer selling Oni on their online stores, fans who wish to own the game should look for secondhand copies on sites where people re-sell items, such as Amazon and eBay.

Company	Rights (past)	Rights (now)	Game page
Owners
Bungie, Inc.	IP rights (until around June 16, 2000)	None	[1]
Take-Two Interactive	IP rights (starting around June 16, 2000)	IP rights
Publishers/Distributors
Gathering of Developers	English Windows U.S. release	None^[1]
Rockstar Games	English PlayStation 2 U.S. release^[2]	Current (but no longer sold on website)	[2]
MacSoft	English Mac version (North America)	None (company has closed)^[3]
Jack of All Games	English Mac version (North America)^[4]	None (company has closed)^[5]
Feral Interactive	EFIGS Mac releases (Europe)	Current? (no longer sold on website)	[3][4]
Application Systems Heidelberg	German Mac release	Current? (no longer sold on website)	[5]
TalonSoft	Distribution, tech support	None (company has closed)^[6]
Century Thor	Chinese localization	Unknown
MediaQuest	Japanese localization, Mac/Windows	Company closed in 2005
Buka Entertainment	Russian localization	Listed on site but no longer sold	[6]
King's International Multimedia	Taiwanese Windows release 1 (English Euro version)	Unknown
Infogrames Taiwan	Taiwanese Windows release 2 (Chinese localization)	Company was sold to Bandai Namco
Kon Tiki Multimedia	Slovak Windows release (localized manual only)	Unknown
Proein	Spanish Windows, PS2 release	Defunct	[7][8]
Developers
Bungie, Inc.	Windows and Mac OS versions	None
Rockstar Canada (now Rockstar Toronto)	PlayStation 2 port	Rockstar is owned by Take-Two
The Omni Group	Maintaining PPC Mac OS X build (2001-2003)	Unknown	[9]
Feral Interactive	Maintaining Intel Mac OS X build (2009-2015)	Unknown	see above
Localizers
Century Thor	Chinese translation	N/A	N/A
Tarantula Studios UK	French, Italian, German, Spanish translations	N/A	N/A
Elegant Chaos	Technical assistance to Tarantula Studios	N/A	N/A
MediaQuest	Japanese localization	N/A	N/A
Buka Entertainment	Russian translation	N/A	N/A
Kon Tiki Multimedia	Slovak localization (manual only)	N/A	N/A

↑ Gathering had been owned by Take-Two since May 2000, and was merged into 2K Games in 2004 or 2005 when 2K was created as a label.
↑ Rockstar has been owned by Take-Two since 1998 when T2 bought Rockstar's parent company BMG Interactive. Even though Rockstar is only listed as the PS2 publisher in many places, and Gathering was supposed to be the Windows publisher, most PC boxes only have the Rockstar logo on it and not Gathering's (with the exception of the US box).
↑ MacSoft was owned by Destineer, which seems to have closed in 2011. This is how their site looked before it was closed and replaced by the "in memoriam" page linked behind "MacSoft" above.
↑ MacSoft actually sold the game on their store. It seems that JoAG was performing some kind of support on the distribution side (see logo here), but didn't sell the game themselves. Jack of All Games also had overseas operations by the time Oni came out, so T2 may in fact have used them for distribution support in Europe too and their logo just didn't happen to make it onto the product.
↑ Jack of All Games had been owned by Take-Two since 1998, then sold to IT company Synnex in 2010 and folded into their distribution operations.
↑ TalonSoft had been owned by Take-Two since December 1998, but closed in 2002.

[1] Gathering had been owned by Take-Two since May 2000, and was merged into 2K Games in 2004 or 2005 when 2K was created as a label.

[2] Rockstar has been owned by Take-Two since 1998 when T2 bought Rockstar's parent company BMG Interactive. Even though Rockstar is only listed as the PS2 publisher in many places, and Gathering was supposed to be the Windows publisher, most PC boxes only have the Rockstar logo on it and not Gathering's (with the exception of the US box).

[3] MacSoft was owned by Destineer, which seems to have closed in 2011. This is how their site looked before it was closed and replaced by the "in memoriam" page linked behind "MacSoft" above.

[4] MacSoft actually sold the game on their store. It seems that JoAG was performing some kind of support on the distribution side (see logo here), but didn't sell the game themselves. Jack of All Games also had overseas operations by the time Oni came out, so T2 may in fact have used them for distribution support in Europe too and their logo just didn't happen to make it onto the product.

[5] Jack of All Games had been owned by Take-Two since 1998, then sold to IT company Synnex in 2010 and folded into their distribution operations.

[6] TalonSoft had been owned by Take-Two since December 1998, but closed in 2002.

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