Mindscape, Inc.

The Mindscape Group is an international software publishing company, previously a sub-brand to The Software Toolworks, a computer game publisher, active from 1980 until 2001. The company started life publishing software for Heath/Zenith personal computers, with popular products including Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and the Chessmaster series of computer games.

In 1999, Mindscape sold to Mattel for around US$3.6 billion, and was then subsequently sold to Gore Technology Group for just a share of the profits. In 2001, Mindscape was made a separate company and went on to buy Montparnasse Multimedia in 2002 and the studio Coktel Vision (owners of the brands ADI and Adiboo) from Vivendi Universal Games in 2005.

Ubisoft continues to publish Chessmaster titles, whilst Broderbund is the new publisher of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.