DECA Games is a game publisher and developer of video games that is headquartered in

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. The company's primary focus is on acquiring and operating older

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. They are the current owners and developers of the

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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 2 ...

''. The company has also acquired a number of free-to-play mobile games, including ''

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'' and multiple titles from Japanese publisher

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(including ''Crime City'', ''Knights and Dragons'', ''Modern War'' and ''Kingdom Age''). In August 2020, the company was acquired by

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, which made it as the sixth major operative group in the company to focus on free-to-play mobile games.

Acquisitions

DECA Games acquired mobile games ''Crime City'', ''Kingdom Age'', ''Knights and Dragons'', and ''Modern War'' from Japanese publisher

on October 17, 2019. DECA Games acquired ''

'' from

Backflip Studios Backflip Studios was a mobile game developer and publisher based in Boulder, Colorado, United States. It was founded by Julian Farrior, Dale Thoms and Tom Blind in April 2009. In August 2009, it was announced that the company had raised US$145, ...

, which closed at the end of 2019, on March 17, 2020.

References

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