Hoplon Infotainment, a private company, is headquartered in Florianopolis, Brazil. The company was founded by Tarquinio Teles in 2000. Hoplon Infotainment develops online games and game architectures. The company serves numerous users in commercial or corporate applications, in online entertainment or complex simulation models. The products developed by Hoplon Infotainment include Bitverse and Taikodom. Taikodom, a massive online space game, hopes to be the first of a new genre, Massive Social Games (MSGs). The products of Hoplon Infotainment run on IBM's mainframe or gameframe environment. The services offered by the company include package plans, downloads, support services, and gallery. Hoplon Infotainment partners with science fiction writer Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro to create events, characters, and scenery for the Taikodom game. The complete history behind the game encompasses 250 years in the future, between the XXI and the XXIII centuries that form the Taikodom universe. Bitverse is a set of tools that allows creating corporate virtual worlds in B2E, B2B or B2C high-performance servers. Bitverse is composed of two modules, namely Bitverse World Builder and Bitverse Runtime. Bitverse has applications in various fields including software simulation, 3D environment for social interaction, virtual training, games for adults and teenagers, virtual experience for product use and services, business simulations, and new marketing & branding actions. IBM and NVIDIA are the major partners of the company. Hoplon Infotainment has more than 80 employees. Hoplon Infotainment can be located on the Web at www.hoplon.com.