Bongfish GmbH, credited as Bongfish, is a video game developer and publisher in

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. Originally founded as a start-up in the science incubator of Graz University of Technology, the company was established in its current form in 2007.

History

Bongfish published its first video game, '' Stoked'' for

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, in 2009. A year later, 2010, ''

Harms Way ''Harms Way'' is a racing advergame developed by Austrian independent software developer Bongfish GmbH for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service. It was released on December 8, 2010, for free as one of the finalists of the Doritos-sponsored " ...

'' was the first title by Bongfish developed for Microsoft Studios. This was followed up in 2012 with the title ''Red Bull Crashed Ice Kinect'' on the

console for Red Bull Media House and Microsoft Studios. With '' Motocross Madness,'' a third title was published for the Xbox 360 in 2013. In 2015, Bongfish started a co-development partnership with Wargaming to create game-play features and content for their MMO '' World of Tanks'' and their ''Frontline'' game mode. Together with Flashman Games LLC, Bongfish acquired the rights to produce ''Smurfs' Village'' a social

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based on the Smurfs franchise in 2016. In 2019, Bongfish founded Blackshark.ai, a sub-division of the company focusing on geospatial analytics and spatial computing. In 2020, Blackshark.ai was mentioned as the company that generated the world's surface for the

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utilizing Bing images.

Titles published

* '' Stoked'' *''Stoked - Big Air Edition'' * '' Motocross Madness'' * ''

'' *''Diving Champions'', official mobile game of the

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*''Red Bull Racers'' *''Red Bull Crashed Ice Kinect'' *''Ski Slopestyle Challenge'', official mobile game of the

2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

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*''Calibre 10 Racing'' *''Smurfs' Village'' *''World of Tanks: Frontline''

References

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External links

Official website
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