Sandstorm

Sandstorm (officially Sandstorm Corporation) is a video game development company founded in Seattle, Washington in 1997. The company is most famous for the breakthrough MMORPG Overworld, which was released in its beta form in 2003 and fully launched in 2005. After the release of OverWorld, Sandstorm became the largest game developer in the United States. However, following the hacking incident at Asgaard and the resulting restructuring of the game, OverWorld's popularity plummeted along with Sandstorm's profits. It is likely that the company never recovered from the incident, but nonetheless continues to host the OverWorld servers for the remaining 6 million players.