What's in a name? Part one

Sometime two years ago, I stumbled on a nugget of information which I thought was just awesome. Tucked in a feature on Australia's most iconic game studio, Beam Software, was an explanation of where the name Beam originated from. Who knew that it had nothing to do with radiating light or something obvious like that but was a name made up from the initials of Beam founders, Alfred Milgrom and Naomi Besen? It made me wonder how many people that worked there perhaps never knew that!

So what were the origins of the names of other studios in Australia and New Zealand? Were there any interesting anecdotes on how their names came about, and did their chosen names have any meaning behind them? We certainly have a slew of developers with some veryintriguing names, so I thought it would be great to see if we can get some explanations!