Absolutist | www.absolutist.com
Founded in 2000. Absolutist is a Ukraine-based developer and publisher of casual games. The company also provides outsourced development, testing and customer support for casual games. The company has worked on over 70 titles for multiple platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Palm OS, Windows Mobile, Windows Smartphone and Symbian (Series 60, 80 and UIQ).
Atom Entertainment | www.atomentertainment.com
Atom Entertainment compiles and distributes the best casual games, short films and animations on the Web. The company works with creative independent developers to find and publish the best casual games, short films, video and more to meet consumer demand for fun, short, accessible and unusual digital entertainment. The five brands of the company reach a broad spectrum of highly-desirable audiences.
Avangate | www.avangate.com
Avangate is a division of GECAD ePayment International, a member of GECAD Group, delivering top IT solutions worldwide for 14 years. Avangate provides eCommerce solutions focused on the software industry, incorporating an easy-to-use and secure online payment system plus additional marketing and sales tools, such as an affiliate management system, automated cross selling options as well as consultancy on how to increase software sales via the internet.
Big Fish Games | www.bigfishgames.com
Big Fish Games is a provider of Internet media delivery software and services based in Seattle, Washington. The company is best known for its strong growth and leadership in the online distribution of casual games. Big Fish has several lines of business, including the distribution of downloadable casual games, ad-supported Web browser games, game development studios, e-greetings and, most recently, a social networking site for allowing casual game players to share opinions, invite friends and earn cash for the games their friends buy.
Boonty | www.boonty.com
Boonty is a global supplier of digital distribution solutions for online and PC gaming. The company's white label casual game platform is utilized by over 100 partners worldwide, including Internet portals, ISPs and mobile operators. The company's existing assets span the casual gaming value chain, including IP ownership and low cost in-house game development resources, a global digital distribution network comprised of over 200 leading online portals in 25 countries, an infrastructure for community-based games and e-commerce, and direct relationships with millions of consumers.
Demand Media | demandmedia.com
As traditional media companies are trying to grasp the power of online communities and user-generated content, Demand MediaTM remains a step ahead as it works at lightning speed to redefine this space. Demand Media's executive team has a vision for the future of new media and a proven track record for delivering on its vision. At the core of the company's unique approach is the combination of domain services, brand-able domains and niche content web sites. Founded in May of 2006, Demand Media is privately held and is based in Santa Monica, CA, with offices in San Francisco and Seattle, WA.
Digital River | www.digitalriver.com
Digital River is a company focusing on e-commerce outsourcing, building and managing online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. The company's platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services. Digital River owns Simtel, the operator of cdrom.com, a large Internet repository of freeware and shareware.
EnterMedia | www.entermedia.ru
EnterMedia is a leading Russian company specializing in the placement of advertisements in computer games. The Egoset technology developed by the company allows users to place ads in both new and published games. The technology operates separately from the game, so no changes to a game's code or graphics are necessary. The Egoset engine is capable of updating and targeting ads, as well as managing impressions and statistics online. This technology is integrated into the Alawar Wrapper for showing ads or short videos before each launch of an unregistered game. The ad block disappears after the full version is purchased.
Exent Technologies | www.exent.com
Established in 1992, Exent Technologies is a leading global market solutions provider for the broadband-based monetization of new and existing PC and video games. Exent's product line supports multiple solutions, including digital distribution of video games, platform enablement, in-game advertising and community building solutions. Exent delivers technologies and products for various markets, including video game publishers, broadband service providers, consumer portals, consumer electronics manufacturers, media companies, advertising agencies, brand owners, retailers and others. Among the landmark companies utilizing Exent technology are Comcast, Verizon, Intel, Turner Broadcasting, Bell Canada, RCN, Deutsche Telecom (T-Online), Telefonica (Terra), France Telecom (Wanadoo), Portugal Telecom (Sapo), KPN, Telenet (Belgium), Telstra (Australia) and HiNet (Taiwan).
Freeze Tag | www.freezetag.com
Fresh from their experience in the mobile gaming field, the founders of Freeze Tag decided to focus all of their efforts on building games that can be enjoyed by everyone, everywhere. As a leading publisher of casual games, Freeze Tag delivers best-of-class releases whereever consumers want to play. Through its partnerships with classic consumer brand-holders like The Ohio Art Company (Etch A Sketch), Freeze Tag offers high quality entertainment that is "family friendly fun!"
GFI | www.gfi.su
GFI, founded in 2003 by a group of experienced game industry professionals, is a leading Russian publisher of interactive software and multimedia products. The company's mission is to provide its partners with a full spectrum of professional publishing services including localization, marketing, online and retail distribution solutions for the Russian, CIS and Baltic territories. The company specializes in Entertainment, Educational and Productivity software and Video products as well as hosting and payment options for online massively multiplayer titles (MMOGs). GFI is also an established developer, producing a wide range of entertainment content for PC and wireless platforms for both domestic and international markets. With several development offices in Russia and Ukraine, GFI has a proven track record of creating original content ranging from casual to AAA, at a highly competitive cost.
INTENIUM | www.intenium.de
INTENIUM is Europe's leading distributor of Casual Games. INTENIUM develops, licenses and publishes Casual Games for the international market. INTENIUM has at its disposal a broad on-line and off-line distribution network in Europe and the USA, as well as its own production studio, whose products are successfully distributed world-wide. The distribution network comprises our own national and international games portals, important internationally-active partner portals as well as commercial transactions. Since 2006, INTENIUM’s own CDs are carried by all leading retailers.
iWin | www.iwin.com
iWin, Inc. originally began in August 2001 as Next Game, Inc. with the objective of building a skill-based gaming community. In June of 2003, the company acquired iWin from Flipside, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of one-time media giant Vivendi Universal and changed its name. In an effort to extend their multiplayer offering and expand the community, iWin purchased Playsite.com from InfoSpace in August 2003. iWin's primary focus is downloadable casual games and multiplayer "Online Party" games. In April 2007, iWin opened iWin Division 90, a new studio in Seattle, to take advantage of the significant casual game development talent in the Pacific Northwest. At the core of the new studio are several veterans from the casual games, console games and children's games industries leading a diverse team of employees, contractors and interns to create new opportunities in the casual games market.
Macrovision/TryGames | www.macrovision.com
Trygames is the Internet destination for legitimate downloadable PC games and software. The site offers more than 250 titles for download, free trial and purchase. Game files from Trygames may be shared by any method (burning to CD/DVD, e-mailing, IMing and so on), and will revert to trial mode each time they're passed along. Trygames is a division of Trymedia Systems, which provides solutions based on proprietary ActiveMARK Technology, which enables game and software publishers to securely sell and market their content over the Internet, peer-to-peer petworks, CD/DVD and e-mail.
Metaboli | www.metaboli.co.uk
Metaboli is an independent European company registered in France. Founded in 2002, Metaboli's goal is to provide broadband consumers with more games for an affordable price. Now in full European expansion, Metaboli has launched its unique service in the UK. The company provides turnkey solutions to ISPs, large websites and retail distributors. In addition, Metaboli has distribution agreements with the main ISPs in France, such as Wanadoo, AOL, Club-Internet (T-Online France) and large sites such as Gamekult.com and Clubic.com.
NeoEdge Networks | www.neoedge.com
NeoEdge Networks is a Silicon Valley Web 2.0 Internet startup that enables gaming and other media companies to deliver Internet advertising as part of their products. NeoEdge is notable in that it's a pioneer in both peer-to-peer distribution and in-game advertising - a topic that has become both popular and controversial as Internet business models come to dominate all aspects of consumer entertainment services and products. The company was founded in 2002 by Netscape and America Online entrepreneurs who previously created the world's first consumer-based Voiceportal while at Quack.com (acquired by AOL in 2000). NeoEdge customers are really advertising companies like NetFlix and Speedee Muffler, who pay them to place ads in games.
NevoSoft | www.nevosoft.com
NevoSoft is a leading developer and distributor of high-quality casual games. Since 2002, the company has been providing #1 hits to RealArcade and Big Fish Games. In 2006, NevoSoft became one of the top 10 most successful casual game companies worldwide, according to game-sales-charts.com. NevoSoft manages an extensive affiliate program and publishes games on CDs across the globe.
NextepMedia | www.nextepmedia.com
NextepMedia is an online entertainment company that emphasizes the distribution of casual games in Korea and the Asia Pacific region. The company offers our games as well as the games of our partners, along with related services, via its game distribution portal.
Nexway (Telechargement) | telechargement.fr
Nexway (formerly Telechargement) is a leading distributor of digital content on the Internet, with multi-channel services that offer software, video games, music and VOD (Video On Demand). The company's new name suggests its desire to deploy its distribution model for digital content to new European markets and reflects the international expansion and positioning of its services. Nexway owns three subsidiaries in European territories (Spain, The Benelux Countries and Sweden) and intends to develop a presence in strategic markets such as the UK, Scandinavia and Italy. Nexway's multi-content solutions allow Internet users to access products more simply and offer new marketing opportunities for a broad catalog of products available for legal download.
Oberon Media | www.oberongames.com
Oberon Media started as a small developer of casual games and is now a leading casual games solutions provider with offices in New York, Seattle, San Francisco, San Mateo, Tel Aviv, London, Paris, Stockholm, Cyprus, Seoul and Singapore. Oberon is focused on four areas of business: 1) Oberon Games, which funds, develops, licenses and distributes casual games across multiple platforms, including the PC, the current generation of consoles, and Web-based and mobile devices; 2) Oberon Games Center, a white-labeled casual games content and merchandising solution for companies and brand holders (companies that use the Oberon Games Center include MSN Games, Pogo, Blue Mountain, Playboy, France Telcom and Daum in Korea); 3) through their white-labeled sites, Oberon offers an advertising vehicle for brands looking to reach the casual gaming demographic; and 4) through the acquisition of Cmate SA, Blaze Mobile and I-Play, Oberon offers technology, content and distribution for mobile devices.
PlayFirst | www.playfirst.com
PlayFirst is a leading publisher of innovative offerings for casual gamers. Committed to fostering creativity, PlayFirst works with talented internal and external developers to bring ground-breaking games to multiple platforms, including the PC, Mac and mobile devices. PlayFirst's portfolio includes the record-breaking hit, Diner Dash, which has been downloaded more than 150 million times worldwide. Founded in 2004 by Internet portal veterans, traditional game publishers, entertainment software makers and technology firms, PlayFirst is funded by venture capital firms Mayfield Fund, Trinity Ventures and Rustic Canyon Partners.
RealNetworks | www.realnetworks.com
RealNetworks is a provider of Internet media delivery software and services based in Seattle, Washington. The company is best known for the creation of RealAudio (a compressed audio format), RealVideo (a compressed video format) and RealPlayer, a media player. The company is also known for its subscription-based online entertainment services like Rhapsody and RealArcade, and for its media properties such as Film.com and RollingStone.com (which it operates in partnership with Rolling Stone owners Wenner Media). Through GameHouse, RealArcade and Zylom, RealNetworks offers hundreds of free online and downloadable puzzle, Mahjongg, arcade, word, jigsaw, action, adventure, card, sports, casino, racing and children's games. The company also offers mobile games through RealArcade Mobile.
Red Marble Games | www.redmarblegames.com
Red Marble Games launched in 2002 with the idea of bringing great independent games originally written for Windows to the Mac. The company's founder has always been passionate about Mac games, and by focusing on porting rather than original development, he can make available a broader array of games much faster than if he wrote everything from scratch. The company decided to focus on Mac games that are easy to learn, fun to play over and over, and intended to appeal to the whole family.
Reflexive Arcade | www.reflexive.com
Founded in 1997, Reflexive Entertainment was one of the first casual game developers on the market. The company was also one of the first online publishers and distributors with its Reflexive Arcade Web site, launched in 2003. Currently, Reflexive Arcade is a mass publisher of PC games, mostly of the casual variety. To date, the company has published over 800 offerings.
TrialPay | www.trialpay.com
TrialPay is a rapidly growing online payment company backed by the investors of Skype, Google and Akamai. Their unique payment platform enables customers to pay for one item by trying or buying something else. TrialPlay helps brand name companies acquire new customers and earn more from existing patrons in the software publishing, online services and traditional retail goods industries. Founded in 2006, TrialPay arose out of real world e-commerce solutions and technologies developed over the course of several years by TrialPay's founders. Currently, over 250 merchants use TrialPay and more than one million consumers have gone through TrialPay to make a purchase.
Wild Tangent | www.wildtangent.com
WildTangent is a software development company that develops and publishes computer games. It was founded by Alex St. John, father of Microsoft's DirectX technology, who serves as president and CEO. The company sells 50,000 games a month. WildTangent produces both original games and advertising games for various companies, including Nike, Coke, Olay and Ford.
Yahoo! Games | games.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Games is the section of the Yahoo! website in which Yahoo! users can play games either with other users or by themselves. The games on the website are typically Java applets or quick Flash games, but there are others which require a download. Yahoo! Games also includes Yahoo! Video Games, which provides news, previews and reviews of currently available or upcoming first party games, and Yahoo! Games on Demand, which provides free demos and full-size downloads of full PC games for a charge. Yahoo! Games has a large user base playing various kinds of games, such as card games, board games, fantasy sports, emulated arcade games and word games.
Zodiac Interactive | www.zodiac.tv
Zodiac is the Interactive Television 2.0 technology and media company. Founded in 2002, Zodiac is a recognized leader in the re-emerging interactive television industry, having won multiple industry accolades, most notably from its long-term relationship with Cablevision, where Zodiac helped build its award-winning iO service, deployed game subscription services and is a major technology engine behind the next generation of interactive television. The company provides a unique fusion of technology, content, advertising and distribution that, for the first time, combines amazing entertainment aimed at a large number of engaged viewers, high-value ad inventory for advertisers, incremental high margin revenue for operators and the growth engine for next-generation of iTV - Zodiac.
Zylom | www.zylom.com
Zylom was founded in 2001 in the Netherlands, and is now the leading producer and publisher of casual games in Europe. With a selection of great titles from their in-house studio and top game developers, Zylom offers consumers high quality and fully localized casual games. Since the founding of Zylom, it has grown from a small Dutch game distributor to the leading publisher and developer of casual games in Europe. By creating and distributing highly entertaining offerings anyone can play at any time, Zylom has changed the meaning of fun. In 2006, Zylom became part of RealNetworks, the global leader in the development, publication and distribution of casual games.
