Arkadium

Arkadium is a game development company headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in 2001 by husband and wife team, Kenny Rosenblatt and Jessica Rovello. The company has offices in New York City and Krasnodar, Russia.[1]

Arkadium owns the largest Flash game library and has created more than 300 online casual games, Facebook games and mobile games.[2] Their flagship titles include their "'easy-to-play, hard-to-quit' games Taptiles, Sparks, Trizzle, and Mahjongg Dimensions," which reach over 10 million gamers per month.[3] Arkadium games are available through the web, Facebook, Windows, OS X, iOS, and Android. In addition, Arkadium "has published hundreds of casual games that can be found on the websites of clients such as MSN, Hearst Magazines Digital Media, ESPN, ABC, Lifetime and Discovery."[4]

In 2009, Arkadium acquired gameLab, founded by designer Eric Zimmerman.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Turning Passion Into Profits: From Playing Games to Playing for Profit". Entrepreneur.com. 2013-02-13. Retrieved 2013-04-20.
  2. ↑ "Casual Game Developer: "Windows 8 Is Everything My iPad Isn't"". Forbes. 2012-04-18. Retrieved 2013-04-20.
  3. ↑ "Arkadium raises $5M for multiplatform casual games, leading with Windows 8 (exclusive) | GamesBeat". Venturebeat.com. 2013-03-14. Retrieved 2013-04-20.
  4. ↑ "Betting on Ballmer, Arkadium readies four games for Windows 8 | GamesBeat | Games | by Dean Takahashi". Venturebeat.com. 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  5. ↑ "Arkadium acquires Gamelab.com game web site". VentureBeat. 2009-09-29. Retrieved 2013-04-20.

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