Miniclip

Miniclip Inc.
Founded March 30, 2001
Headquarters Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Key people Robert Small: CEO
Slogan(s) "Play Games"
(Former slogans: "Play Online Games", "Play Free Online Games", "Free Games and Shows")
Website www.miniclip.com
Alexa rank 1,199 (February 2015)[1]
Type of site Online games
Registration Optional
Available in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Hindi, Romanian, Hungarian, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, and Japanese
Current status Active

Miniclip is a free online games website. It was launched in 2001 and is known for having a large and varied collection of games. It is the world's largest privately owned online gaming website. It was started in 2001 by Robert Small and Tihan Presbie (who is no longer with the company) on a budget of £40,000[2] and quickly grew. As of 2008, the company has been valued at over £900 million, having been profitable for six of its seven years, with turnovers exceeding £20 million from 2006–2008 alone.[2]

Game players

Miniclip has a social system with unregistered "game players" who play games with each other and play in custom friend leagues together.

Players have their own game player pages with their games, statistics, awards, friends and applications.

Game developer API's

Miniclip offers game developers a number of API services that allow them to integrate Miniclip branded features into their games, for example these allow third party developers to create games that can contribute high scores to a user's high score ranking on the Players service.

Wii

In 2009, Miniclip made Wii-playable games on their website. It can be accessed through the Wii Internet Channel.

Miniclip Webmaster's

Security issues

Several security firms reported in 2006 that some Miniclip users had installed a "miniclipgameloader.dll" which contains the hostile code identified as "Trojan DownLoader 3069".[3] Removal tools are available. Reports in 2006 from the same security vendors show the same file as not containing hostile code. In 2006, the security firm Sunbelt Software reported that Miniclip installed "High Risk" malware called "Trojan-Downloader.CR64Loader".[4] On September 1, 2005, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued an advisory concerning Miniclip:

The Retro64 / Miniclip CR64 Loader ActiveX control contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute an arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.... Although the ActiveX control is no longer in use by either retro64.com or miniclip.com, any system that has used certain pages of these web sites in the past (prior to September, 2005) may be vulnerable.[5]

Mobile games

Miniclip also has many mobile games that are available for iOS, Android, Symbian and Windows Phone, such as 8 Ball Pool, Gravity Guy, Bloons TD 5 , Plague Inc., Berry Rush, Fireboy and Watergirl: The Forest Temple, Agar.io, Slither.io, and IStunt2.

Xbox games for Windows 8

In September 2012, Microsoft announced on Windows team blog dated August 31, 2012 (see also List of Xbox games on Windows) that Miniclip games will be able distribute their game on the Xbox division of Windows 8, which launched on October 26, 2012. Miniclip games that are supported by Xbox for Windows 8 include Gravity Guy, iStunt 2 and Monster Islands. In April 2013, most of the Miniclip games for Windows 8 and Windows Phone were distributed for free for one year.

References

  1. "Miniclip.com - Site Information from Alexa". Retrieved 2011-02-08.
  2. 1 2 "FT.com - Game Plan Keeps It Simple". Archived from the original on June 3, 2009.
  3. "Trojan.DownLoader.3069 / MINICLIPGAMELOADER.DLL". Prevx. July 15, 2005. Archived from the original on 2007-02-15.
  4. "Threat Details - Trojan-Downloader.CR64Loader". Sunbelt Software. September 14, 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-12-16.
  5. "Vulnerability Note VU#649289, Retro64 / Miniclip CR64Loader ActiveX control buffer overflow". United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, Department of Homeland Security. 2006-09-01.

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