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Both Beast and Turtle are to remain available as stand-alone products, and existing customers will naturally continue to be supported by Autodesk. Customers including Sony, Nintendo and THQ, which already rely on Beast, will probably continue to work with it, and Autodesk’s rise to become the Adobe-like dominant player in its field appears unstoppable.