Tag Archives: game developers

Former CEO of Rockstar Games Vienna joins Socialspiel

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Thomas Ohr

Former Rockstar Games Vienna Chief Executive Dr. Niki Laber joins the Vienna-based social games developer Socialspiel – managing day to day Business and Corporate Development. Dr. Laber founded Neo Software in 1993 and after it was acquired by Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games in … Continue reading →

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Game developer MobileBits secures new funding

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Thomas Ohr

The Hamburg-based investor iVentureCapital has just acquired a share in the German development studio MobileBits. The young games company, whith offices in Hamburg and Hannover and was founded in 2009. The founding team and more than twenty employees concentrate on developing games for … Continue reading →

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Interview with Ivan Marusic (Gamersbook)

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

We just had the chance to talk to Ivan Marusic, the Founder and CEO of Gamersbook.com, and ask him a few questions about his Split (Croatia) based startup. So, what is Gamersbook? Just think of everything related to games and … Continue reading →

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Gameforge and Frogster to realign internal structures

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

The Karlsruhe (Germany) based Gameforge Group today announced that it is fundamentally realigning its internal structures. After the successful merger in August, Gameforge and Frogster are now starting the integration and laying the foundations for the company’s sustained ability to … Continue reading →

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Rovio announced 500 million downloads of Angry Birds

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

The Espoo (Finland) based startup Rovio today announced 500 million total downloads of Angry Birds games across all platforms. This milestone makes Angry Birds one of the most downloaded games in the history of gaming. According to the young company … Continue reading →

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Grey Area launches Shadow Cities in Europe

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

Grey Area, the Finland based developer for smartphone games, just launched the MMO game “Shadow Cities” in 13 European countries. The new game is free and available through local iTunes-stores in Germany, UK, Italy, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, … Continue reading →

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Interview with Heiko Hubertz (Bigpoint)

Posted on December 11, 2010 by admin

For our 4th interview we just had the chance to talk to the founder and CEO of Bigpoint, wich is definetly one of the biggest Internet successes out of Germany. His company develops and operates browser games – and as a publisher, content provider and developer, Bigpoint is setting new … Continue reading →