XPEC Entertainment

From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum

Background

XPEC Entertainment is a Taiwanese video game developer and publisher based in Taipei. It was founded in 2000.

1st Logo (June 21, 2004-2006)


Logo: On a space background, light flashes to show moving pixels over the logo, and light then flashes, revealing it was the text "XPEC" and below it was the text "Entertainment Inc." on a purple background.

Variants:

  • Sometimes, the logo is still.
  • Sometimes, the background is black.

Technique: CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: A synth jingle.

Availability: Appeared on games of time period.

2nd Logo (August 11, 2006-April 10, 2012)

Logo: 6 yellow streaks of light appear and swirl around the near-left of the screen, with two of them briefly making an X shape, until all streaks make a second X shape with one streak escaping, before the flash of light forming the white "XPEC" in a futuristic font, but with the trademark symbol moved to next to the top part of the "C", causing light streaks to disappear. Afterwards, a white streak of light flies of from the left, forming the slogan "HAVE FUN TOGETHER! .............." below. Everything is taken inside the red rectangle against the black background.

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: The 2nd Sanctuary Woods Multimedia jingle.

Music/Sounds Variant: On the trailer to YES 520 Online, it has "Gliss Arpeggios 02" from Apple's iMovie.

Availability: Seen on the PS2 port of Kung Fu Panda, Spectral Force 3: Innocent Rage, and Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (the last game to use this logo), among others.

3rd Logo (September 13-October 13, 2006)

Logo: On a white background, we see various symbols. Next to it was the text "xpec" in the same font as the previous logo with the text "ENTERTAINMENT" in spaced-out letters.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: The opening theme of the game.

Availability: Seen on Bounty Hounds for PSP.

4th Logo (August 18, 2010-April 9, 2012)

Logo: On a red background, with hexagons, a light streak form a 3D version of the XPEC logo in black that flips, and then the light forms the slogan from the 2nd logo. The logo then moves, so more hexagons appear.

Technique: CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: The opening theme of the video.

Availability: Rare.

5th Logo (September 17, 2012-November 10, 2014)

Logo: On a black background, a light forms, and then the background turns red and the XPEC logo from before moves on, until the logo turns 2D on a black BG.

Technique: CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: Whooshes and sparkling sounds.

Availability: Appears on Do Not Fall and trailers for new games.


6th Logo (November 10, 2014)

Logo: On a red background, we see the "XPEC" letters in a Chinese-like font wipes in, and then the background turns black with the normal XPEC logo.

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: Whooshing sounds, followed by the theme of the trailer.

Availability: Only seen on the trailer for Monkey Warrior.

7th Logo (October 7, 2016-May 17, 2018)

Logo: On a red sunburst background, we see the "x" letter from the XPEC logo in 3D zooms out and rotates. Then the logo flashes to see the XPEC logo, and we see the text "XPEC Entertainment Inc." with two lines above and below the logo.

Technique: CGI.

Music/Sounds: Distorted scratchy noises, followed by a bang with robotic noises.

Availability: Appears on the trailers for the O! My Genesis! VR game for the Playstation VR, but not on the game itself. It's also seen on the YouTube video called "Life at XPEC".

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