3DVIA

3DVIA is a subsidiary of Dassault Systemes (NASDAQ: DASTY; Euronext: 13065) that was founded to extend their high-end 3D graphics capabilities to new markets including consumers. The company's stated goal is to democratize the use of 3D technology and establish it as the new media for consumer and professional users.
The company has several product groups that are being assembled under the 3DVIA umbrella.
For consumer markets, the company currently operates a 3D online community and model hosting website located at http://www.3dvia.com/ and provides a free modeling application named 3DVIA Shape. Through a partnership with Microsoft, 3DVIA provides a version of this software for users to create models on Microsoft Virtual Earth under the name Virtual earth - 3DVIA.
For the gaming and electronic entertainment industry, the offers a development platform for system integrators, game studios and corporate end-users through it's Virtools brand name.

GMAX

Gmax was a 3D modeling application based on Discreet's 3ds Max used by professional computer graphics artists. Whereas 3ds Max is a comprehensive modeling, animation, and rendering package with some secondary post-production and compositing features, Gmax is much more limited due to its singular intended use—game content creation. Tools and features rarely used or completely unrelated to creating 3D game models were removed (most if not all of the more complex rendering, materials, shaders, physics simulation, and some of the more advanced geometry tools, plus the rendering engine), leaving the core modeling, texturing, and basic animation rigging and keyframing capabilities.
The Trainz Asset Creation Studio, a popular Gmax game pack.Gmax can be expanded by "game packs", which feature customized tools with the purpose of creating and exporting customizable content to games and websites. As Gmax was bereft of its progenitor's rendering engine, game packs were typically required to provide such a feature for Gmax if deemed necessary (Maxis was the first company to write a dedicated renderer for their gmax gamepack, BAT—Building Architect Tool—for SimCity 4).

PERSONAL COMPUTER GAMES

A personal computer game (also known as a computer game or simply PC game) is a video game played on a personal computer, rather than on a video game console or arcade machine. Computer games have evolved from the simple graphics and gameplay of early titles like Spacewar!, to a wide range of more visually advanced titles. Their market is in fast expansion, and many observers have stated for computer games "the future could not be brighter".PC games are created by one or more game developers, often in conjunction with other specialists (such as game artists) and either published independently or through a third party publisher. They may then be distributed on physical media such as DVDs and CDs, as Internet-downloadable shareware, or through online delivery services such as Direct2Drive and Steam. PC games often require specialized hardware in the user's computer in order to play, such as a specific generation of graphics processing unit or an Internet connection for online play, although these system requirements vary from game to game