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RedOctane
Type	Subsidiary
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Sunnyvale, California, USA
Key people	Kai Huang (President and Co-Founder), Charles Huang (COO and Co-Founder)
Industry	Interactive entertainment
Owner	Activision
Website	http://www.redoctanegames.com/

RedOctane is an electronic entertainment company founded in 1999. In August of that year, they began operation as the world's first online video game rental service. Today, they also design and produce dance pads and other video game accessories. In 2005, RedOctane expanded into publishing original video games. In May 2006, video game publisher Activision announced plans to acquire RedOctane, completing the deal on June 6th, 2006^[1].

RedOctane is best known for their soft dance pads called the Ignition series. These pads have foam blocks inside them, which can be removed to allow the pad to be folded. Their current top-of-the-line pad is called the "Ignition 3.0" pad, featuring cords that can connect to a PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Xbox, or a PC. Its directional pads are raised.

RedOctane recently produced their first metal pad with recessed arrows. It was named the Afterburner, in a "pad-naming" contest held by RedOctane. The winner(s) were awarded a free copy of In The Groove.

In June 2005, RedOctane published their first video game product, In The Groove for the Playstation 2, a new entry in the dance game genre developed by Roxor Games. The game consists of all the songs in the arcade version, and four new songs from the In The Groove 2 arcade game.

Their second video game product is an all new rhythm/music game called Guitar Hero, developed by Harmonix. The game consists of 30+ licensed tracks and uses a custom designed guitar peripheral. The game has since spawned a sequel, Guitar Hero II, also for the PlayStation 2. This version consists of 40 licensed tracks and an additional 24 original recordings directly from the band that made them (as opposed to a cover version of the licensed songs).