ZeniMax Halifax Ltd. (

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: Alpha Dog Games) is a mobile video game developer based in

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, Canada that develops mobile games for the

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and Android platforms. The company was acquired by

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in October 2019. ZeniMax Media was acquired by

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in March 2021 and became part of

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. As a result, Alpha Dog Games has been owned by Microsoft since 2021, and it is an indirect mobile gaming extension of the

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brand.

Games developed

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