Infinity Plus Two, previously Infinite Interactive, is a

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with headquarters in St Kilda,

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. The company was founded by Steve Fawkner in 1989. After a long alliance with SSG, resulting in the development of the

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series of games, Steve moved on to make Infinite totally independent in 2003. Infinite Interactive was one of the first developers to port a full custom game engine to the iPhone in 2009. However due to Publisher issues it was not until much later that any properties were released on the iOS platform. In 2011, the company was acquired by fellow Australian developers

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, creators of

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and

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- however, in late 2012 Infinite Interactive announced their return as an independent developer. Infinite has continued to produce Warlords games ( Warlords IV: Heroes of Etheria and

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), but has recently branched out into the more casual marketplace. They have also released '' Puzzle Quest'' for the

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, IPhone, PS3,

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and PC. ''

Galactrix ''Puzzle Quest: Galactrix'', or ''Galactrix'', is a puzzle video game developed by Infinite Interactive for the PC, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade, and PlayStation 3's PlayStation Network service. The game offers a full-featured campai ...

'', another match-3-based puzzle game in the Puzzle Quest series, this time with a science fiction setting and hexagonal tiles. May 2009 saw the release of ''

Puzzle Kingdoms ''Puzzle Kingdoms'' is a puzzle video game developed by Infinite Interactive for PC, Nintendo DS and Wii. The PC version is available to download online through services such as IGN's Direct2Drive and Steam. Like Infinite Interactive's previous ...

'', a

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iteration of the successful ''Puzzle Quest'' franchise. In September 2012, it was announced that a new game, "heavily inspired by our previous hit game, Puzzle Quest", was in development with a projected release of 2013. The game in question, Gems of War, a free-to-play roleplaying puzzle game similar to their previous titles, was launched on November 19, 2014. In 2019 the company rebranded itself as Infinity Plus Two. The company was acquired by

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in January 2021.

Games

* Warlords IV: Heroes of Etheria *

* Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords * Neopets Puzzle Adventure * Puzzle Quest: Galactrix *

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* Puzzle Quest 2 * Gems of War * Tiny Quest *

Puzzle Quest 3 ''Puzzle Quest'' is a series of puzzle video games where Tile-matching video game, tile-matching serves as the combat for a role-playing video game. The first game was released in 2007: ''Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords'', a spin-off of t ...

References

External links

* 505 Games Companies based in Melbourne St Kilda, Victoria Video game companies of Australia Video game development companies Video game companies established in 2003 Australian companies established in 2003 2021 mergers and acquisitions Australian subsidiaries of foreign companies {{Australia-videogame-company-stub