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Machine Zone: History, Technology & Companies
Machine Zone, Inc. (MZ) is an American technology company founded in 2008 and based in Palo Alto, California. It is best known for its widely advertised freemium mobile MMO strategy games Game of War: Fire Age and Mobile Strike, which have both simultaneously been ranked among the top ten highest-grossing mobile games.
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Machine Zone topic overview
The analysis highlights History, Technology and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around Machine Zone.
Related topics
51
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
56
Extracted relationships
84
Concept neighborhoods
17
Bridge connections
56
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
History · 29 topics
Marketing · 9 topics
Overview · 6 topics
Game revenue and player purchases · 5 topics
Products · 2 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Founded
2008 (2008)
Industry
Mobile gaming software · Real-time computing · Cloud-based networking
Owner
Tripledot Studios
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California, United States
Area served
Worldwide
Divisions
Platform
Suggested research paths
A focused starting point derived from the topic graph, ranked independently of the source article order.
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How Machine Zone connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Machine Zone shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Machine Zone → Accelerator, AddHer, AddHim, Addmired, Chief Technology Officer Halbert, Combinator's Winter, Gabriel Leydon, Global War Riot, Hot, In, It, Menlo Ventures, Mike Sherrill, MySpace, Nakagawa, Not-esque, Original Gangstaz, TechCrunch, The Another extracted example is Machine Zone → According, CEO, CEO Gabe Leydon, Dumont, Fast Company, Hedera Hashgraph, In, In June, July, Kristen Dumont, Leydon, Machine Zone's, March, MZ, MZ's, Satori. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Machine Zone
Top relations
related to Origin and first products (2008–2012)· 19
Machine Zone → Accelerator, AddHer, AddHim, Addmired, Chief Technology Officer Halbert, Combinator's Winter, Gabriel Leydon, Global War Riot, Hot, In, It, Menlo Ventures, Mike Sherrill, MySpace, Nakagawa, Not-esque, Original Gangstaz, TechCrunch, The
related to Refocus on gaming (2018–present)· 16
Machine Zone → According, CEO, CEO Gabe Leydon, Dumont, Fast Company, Hedera Hashgraph, In, In June, July, Kristen Dumont, Leydon, Machine Zone's, March, MZ, MZ's, Satori
related to Breakout games (2012–2015)· 15
Machine Zone → According, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Australia, Epic War, Fire Age, Game, In, Leydon, Mobile Strike, New Zealand, November, October, The, VentureBeat, War
related to Game revenue and player purchases· 10
Machine Zone → Analytics, Game, In August, In March, Most, Slice Intelligence, The, Wall Street Journal, War, War's
Products· 5
Machine Zone → Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire (2017), Final Fantasy XV: War for Eos, Game of War: Fire Age (2012), Mobile Strike (2015), World War Rising (2018)
Founder· 3
Machine Zone → Gabriel Leydon, Halbert Nakagawa, Mike Sherrill
Industry· 3
Machine Zone → Cloud-based networking, Mobile gaming software, Real-time computing
Subsidiaries· 2
Machine Zone → Epic Action LLC, Epic War LLC
Area served· 1
Machine Zone → Worldwide
Divisions· 1
Machine Zone → Platform
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.
Machine Zone relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 84 structured relationships around Machine Zone. Examples in this analysis include Machine Zone → Area served → Worldwide and Machine Zone → Divisions → Platform. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
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Predicate
Object
Confidence
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Machine Zone
Area served
Worldwide
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infobox
Machine Zone
Divisions
Platform
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infobox
Machine Zone
Formerly
Addmired (2008–2012)
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infobox
Machine Zone
Founded
2008 (2008)
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infobox
Machine Zone
Founder
Gabriel Leydon
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infobox
Machine Zone
Founder
Halbert Nakagawa
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infobox
Machine Zone
Founder
Mike Sherrill
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infobox
Machine Zone
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California, United States
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infobox
Machine Zone
Industry
Mobile gaming software
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infobox
Machine Zone
Industry
Real-time computing
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infobox
Machine Zone
Industry
Cloud-based networking
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infobox
Machine Zone
Key people
Kristen Dumont, CEO
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infobox
Machine Zone
Number of employees
550 (as of October 2015[update])
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infobox
Machine Zone
Owner
Tripledot Studios
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infobox
Machine Zone
Products
Game of War: Fire Age (2012)
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infobox
Machine Zone
Products
Mobile Strike (2015)
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infobox
Machine Zone
Products
Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire (2017)
1.00
infobox
Machine Zone
Products
Final Fantasy XV: War for Eos
1.00
infobox
Machine Zone
Products
World War Rising (2018)
1.00
infobox
Machine Zone
Subsidiaries
Epic War LLC
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infobox
Machine Zone
Subsidiaries
Epic Action LLC
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infobox
Machine Zone
Trade name
MZ
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infobox
Machine Zone
Type
Subsidiary of Tripledot Studios
1.00
infobox
Machine Zone
Website
mz.com
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infobox
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Machine Zone bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Machine, Zone and Game. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Machine Zone, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Machine Zone with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Min side: 3
Machine Zone — History· splits 27 ⟂ 30Machine Zone — Marketing· splits 47 ⟂ 10Machine Zone — Overview· splits 50 ⟂ 7Machine Zone — Game revenue and player purchases· splits 51 ⟂ 6Machine Zone — Products· splits 54 ⟂ 3
Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Machine Zone
Nodes57
Edges56
Triples84
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.035088
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Machine Zone to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Technology & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
