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Kabam
Kabam (formerly Watercooler, Inc.) is an interactive entertainment company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Vancouver, BC. with offices in Montréal, QC, San Francisco, CA and Austin, Texas. The company creates, develops and publishes massively multiplayer social games (MMSG's) such as ''Marvel Contest of Champions'' and '' Transformers: Forged to Fight'' for mobile devices. Before expanding into gaming, Kabam established itself as a social applications' developer with entertainment and sports communities totaling more than 60 million users. Kabam markets freemium games for mobile devices, and social networking services. The company's previous investors included Alibaba, Canaan Partners, Google, MGM, Intel, Pinnacle Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Warner Bros. and others. The company has focused on developing "real games," or games with immersive gameplay mechanics akin to more traditional MMOs with an emphasis on the spending and gambling of virtual currency. In late 2009, Kaba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdoms Of Camelot
''Kingdoms of Camelot'' is a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy browser game created by Canadian studio Kabam when it was named Watercooler Inc. It went into beta on November 2, 2009 and was released on November 6, 2009. On December 9, 2014, Kabam announced it was selling most of its web games, including Kingdoms of Camelot, to RockYou. The transfer formally happened at the beginning of April 2015. Game play Essentially a build and warfare game, Kingdoms of Camelot relies heavily on timers and resource management. All actions take time, from a few seconds to days. The game includes a chat feature for both "global" and "alliance" conversations. Kingdoms of Camelot includes a Tournaments feature to create competition and reduce the monotony of game-play. Might of Winter The "Might of Winter" event ran from Saturday, 13 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT to Saturday, 20 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT. Prizes ranged from 1000 gems for first place to 100 gems for fifth. Players scoring between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Contest Of Champions
''Marvel Contest of Champions'' is a 2014 Fighting video game, fighting video game developed and published by Kabam. It was released on December 10, 2014, for iOS and Android (operating system), Android. The fighting game is primarily set in the Marvel Universe. The game is strongly based on the events of the limited comic book series ''Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions, Contest of Champions''. An arcade game, arcade version was released in 2019, developed by Raw Thrills and exclusive to Dave & Buster's locations. Gameplay Players assume the role of a Summoner, tasked by Collector (character), the Collector to build a team of Marvel heroes and villains and pit them against one another in combat. Gameplay is similar to that of ''Injustice: Gods Among Us'' and ''Mortal Kombat X'', where the game's fighting arena is rendered in 3D with a 2D plane for the superheroes' movements and actions. New players begin with access to two 1-star characters and can work to access addition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Liu
Holly Liu is an American businesswoman and venture capitalist. She is the co-founder of the mobile gaming company Kabam. She is currently Non-Executive Director and Strategic Adviser to Animoca's board of directors. Education She studied at the UC Berkeley and at the University of California, Los Angeles. Career Liu is the co-founded mobile gaming company Kabam in 2006; maker of the games: Kingdoms of Camelot, The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth, and Marvel Contest of Champions. She was lead designer of their flagship game Kingdoms of Camelot, which grossed over $250 million in just four years. Liu was instrumental in growing the company’s annual revenue from zero to $400m. She was also the founding mobile designer for the game extension ''Battle for the North'', which made ''Kingdoms of Camelot'' the highest-grossing app for iPhone and iPad in 2012. In January 2017, the majority of Kabam’s assets were acquired by Netmarble, South Korea’s largest mobile gaming compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Realm Of The Mad God
''Realm of the Mad God '' is a massively multiplayer online shooter video game co-created by Wild Shadow Studios and currently owned and developed by DECA Games. It was in public beta from January 2010 and the browser version launched on June 20, 2011. On February 20, 2012 the game was made available on the digital distribution platform Steam for Microsoft Windows and OS X. The game has been described as a "massively-multiplayer cooperative bullet hell shooter" with an 8-bit pixelated art style. Players control characters who have been transported to the realm of Oryx (the titular Mad God) to become food for his many minions and abominations, which the players must dispatch. Central to the design of the game is the fact that character death is permanent. Upon death, the player's character is lost along with all of its carried equipment, although the player can store a number of items for safekeeping in a limited capacity vault away from danger. Different character choices in cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney Mirrorverse
''Disney Mirrorverse'' is a 2022 mobile role-playing game developed and produced as a collaboration between Disney and Kabam. The crossover game was released on June 23, 2022, for iOS and Android. A teaser trailer for the game was released on March 23, 2022. The game is set in a fictional universe adjacent to other Disney canon, featuring dozens of familiar Disney, Pixar, and other characters from different franchises re-envisioned in a new storyline. Gameplay Based on official teasers, gameplay involves quests and battles as the player navigates through a narrative storyline. Having the option for team-based play allows for various "combos" to utilize the unique strategies and abilities of different characters. Characters ''Disney Mirrorverse'' includes a roster of more than 50 characters (including 3 non-playable characters), all from previously established franchises produced by The Walt Disney Company. Regardless of origin, each character has an art-style consistent wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Realm Of Champions
''Marvel Realm of Champions'' was a mobile fighting game developed by Kabam as a spinoff for their other Marvel game '' Contest of Champions''. The free-to-play game with in-game Store purchases launched globally on December 16, 2020. On January 13, 2022, it was announced that the game would shut down on March 31 of that year. Setting ''Realm of Champions'' was set in the continuity of Kabam's previous Marvel game '' Contest of Champions'' and ran concurrently to it. While ''Contest'' was based on the '' Contest of Champions'' story arc and depicted multiple Marvel Comics characters from various alternate realities being abducted to participate in the titular Contest in the "Battlerealm", ''Realm'' drew inspiration from ''Secret Wars'' storyline and was set on the Battleworld, a patchwork planet made from various alternate Earths. Remnants of each reality formed a "House" which was ruled by a "Baron", all of whom were alternate takes on existing Marvel character (such as Gwen Stac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic Pixel Games
Magic Pixel Games is an American video game development company founded by key members of the Boom Blox team from Electronic Arts' Los Angeles studio. History Magic Pixel Games was founded by six members of the Boom Blox team after "routine layoffs" from Electronic Arts' Los Angeles studio in March 2010. The company announced its formation on June 2, 2011, after adding other industry veterans from THQ and Activision to its staff. Magic Pixel's first title, Carnival Island, was announced three days later at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011, based heavily on the team's prior experience with motion-controlled games. Magic Pixel's first mobile title, Stick to It, was a character-based physics-puzzler released in 2012 for iOS. In 2014, Magic Pixel partnered with Tapzen and released This Means WAR! for iOS, with the Android version coming out in Q3 of 2014. Also coming out in 2014 is Outcast Odyssey, published by Bandai Namco Games. On January 12, 2015, both TapZen and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Verdu
Michael Verdu (born December 28, 1964) is an American manager and producer and author of computer games. Life Verdu was born on December 28, 1964. His father worked for a trade union, his mother was a dance instructor. Michael visited the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, 600 km away from his native Washington. He did not finish his studies because Advanced Technology, an IT service provider for the US Department of Defense, offered him a lucrative job as a programmer. Aged 20, he left Advanced Technology in 1985 to found the software company Paragon Systems that produced software for the Department of Defense. Paragon's programs were used to maintain submarines of the Ohio and Los Angeles-class submarines. The company also rented out programming capacities, for example to Bob Bates' video game start-up Challenge Inc. which developed text adventures for industry leader Infocom. In September 1987 Verdu sold Paragon Systems (which had 25 employees by the time) to IT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balanced Worlds
Balanced Worlds is a developer of a series 3D games for the web loosely titled the “Buddies” franchise. Established in 2007, Balanced Worlds creates and distributes games to a global audience with partners in Taiwan, the United States, Southeast Asia, and China. They have offices in Beijing, China and Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The first game in the Buddies series, Bomb Buddies, was launched on June 1, 2012. It is one of the first 3D games to be available in a player's web browser and as a downloadable client game. In December 2012, Balanced Worlds was acquired by social gaming giant Kabam with undisclosed terms. Background Balanced Worlds was founded in 2007 and is owned and operated by Chris Pfeiffer, Maxim Garber, and Alexander Rivan Ronalds. The Buddies The Buddies franchise was conceptualized in early 2012 with the idea of bringing back classic gaming styles using a uniform series of characters and environments. The “Buddies” are meant to represent hip teens and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netmarble
Netmarble Corp. (Hangul, Korean: 넷마블 주식회사) is a South Korean mobile game developer. It is South Korea's largest mobile-gaming company which was founded in 2000 by Bang Jun-hyuk. Overview Netmarble developed ''Lineage 2 Revolution'' in 2015 and released to the public that same year. As of 2019 L2R became one of the highest-grossing mobiles in the market; exceeding 924 million dollars in 11 months since its release. Currently, Netmarble continues to update and bring new content to L2R''.'' Netmarble produces role-playing mobile games. As of 2015, it had more than 3,000 employees and served over 120 countries worldwide. In May 2017, Bang took the company public, raising $2.4 billion. Netmarble has developed mobile games including ''Seven Knights'', ''Raven'' (''Evilbane'' in the U.S.) and ''Everybody's Marble''. It also claims a large shareholder stake in Social Gaming Network, SGN, a casual game developer, and has a strategic partnership with CJ ENM. Since 2015, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haden Blackman
William Haden Blackman is an American video game designer and writer. Early life Blackman grew up in Seal Beach, California. As a child, he read comic books during long road trips, which created his love for fantastical creatures. Career Blackman attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he earned his degree in Creative Writing. Shortly after graduating, he worked as a ghost writer and submissions editor for a small Northern California literary agency while pursuing his writing career. His first published work was ''The Field Guide to North American Monsters: Everything You Need to Know About Encountering Over 100 Terrifying Creatures in the Wild'', which was followed by a sequel entitled ''The Field Guide to North American Hauntings: Everything You Need to Know About Encountering Over 100 Ghosts, Phantoms, and Spectral Entities''. Soon after completing the first ''Field Guide'', Blackman began work at LucasArts as a writer and later a voice director, producer, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire Age
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction Product (chemistry), products. At a certain point in the combustion reaction, called the ignition point, flames are produced. The ''flame'' is the visible portion of the fire. Flames consist primarily of carbon dioxide, water vapor, oxygen and nitrogen. If hot enough, the gases may become ionized to produce Plasma (physics), plasma. Depending on the substances alight, and any impurities outside, the color of the flame and the fire's Intensity (heat transfer), intensity will be different. Fire in its most common form can result in conflagration, which has the potential to cause physical damage through burning. Fire is an important process that affects ecological systems around the globe. The positive effects of fire include stimulating growth and maintaining various ecological systems. Its negative effects include hazard to life and pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
