Miniclip SA is a

mobile game A mobile game, or smartphone game, is a video game that is typically played on a mobile phone. The term also refers to all games that are played on any portable device, including from mobile phone (feature phone or smartphone), tablet, PDA to ...

publisher and former browser game website that launched in 2001. It was started by Robert Small and Tihan Presbie with a budget of £40,000. In 2008, the company was valued at over £275 million. In 2009, Miniclip hosted over 400 applications on its website. In 2015, Tencent acquired majority stakes of Miniclip. In December 2016, Miniclip achieved 1 billion downloads across its mobile games on iOS,

Android Android may refer to: Science and technology * Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human * Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system ** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to ...

, and Windows devices. In March 2022, Miniclip announced that it had reached 4 billion downloads, with ''8 Ball Pool'' alone accounting for 1 billion. In April 2022, Miniclip announced that it would begin prioritizing its mobile games. As a result, the browser game portal was shut down in July 2022 and the website lost all but its two most popular games,

Agar.io ''Agar.io'' is a Massively multiplayer online game, massively multiplayer online action game created by Brazilian developer Matheus Valadares. Players control one or more circular Cell (biology), cells in a map representing a Petri dish. The goa ...

and 8 Ball Pool. In June 2022, Miniclip acquired

SYBO SYBO Games is a video game company located in Copenhagen, Denmark founded by Sylvester Rishøj Jensen and Bodie Jahn-Mulliner. SYBO is mainly known for being the creators and intellectual property owners of the second most downloaded mobile runne ...

, the publisher of '' Subway Surfers'', in an undisclosed deal.

Studios

Mobile games

Miniclip has developed and published numerous mobile games for iOS,

Symbian Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system A mobile operating system is an operating system for mobile phones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing devices. While computers such as typic ...

, and Windows Phone such as ''8 Ball Pool'', ''Golf Battle'', '' Gravity Guy'', ''

Bloons Tower Defense ''Bloons Tower Defense'' (also known as ''Bloons TD'' or ''BTD'') is a series of tower defense games under the '' Bloons'' series created and produced by Ninja Kiwi. The game was initially developed as a browser game, built upon the (now unusab ...

'', ''

Plague Inc. ''Plague Inc.'' is a real-time strategy simulation video game, developed and published by UK-based independent video game studio Ndemic Creations. The game was inspired by the 2011 film '' Contagion'' and the 2008 Adobe Flash game ''Pandemic 2' ...

'' for Android, ''Berry Rush'', ''

'', ''

Diep.io ''Diep.io'' is a multiplayer action game available for web browsers, Android, and iOS, created by Brazilian developer Matheus Valadares. Players control tanks and earn points by destroying shapes and killing other players in a 2D arena. The mobil ...

'', ''Mini Militia'', and ''Ludo Party''. Miniclip’s removal of ''Golf Battle'' Rush Mode has been met with much criticism.

Xbox games for Windows 8

In September 2012, Microsoft announced on the Windows blog on 31 August 2012 (see also List of Xbox games on Windows) that Miniclip games will be able to distribute their games on the Xbox division of Windows 8. Miniclip games that are supported by Xbox for Windows 8 include '' Gravity Guy'', ''iStunt 2'', and ''Monster Island''. '' Gravity Guy'' was released on Windows Store on 29 November 2010. In April 2013, most of the Miniclip games for Windows 8 and Windows Phone were distributed for free for one year.

Xbox One, PC, and PS4

On 14 February 2017, Miniclip released their first game compatible with Xbox One, PC, and

PlayStation 4 The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Announced as the successor to the PlayStation 3 in February 2013, it was launched on November 15, 2013, in North America, November 29, 2013 in ...

, titled ''MX Nitro''.

Malicious software issues

On 1 September 2005, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued an advisory concerning Miniclip: In 2006, several security firms reported that some Miniclip users had installed a "miniclipgameloader.dll" which contained the hostile code identified as "Trojan Downloader 3069.” In the same year, another download related to Miniclip installed "High Risk"

malware Malware (a portmanteau for ''malicious software'') is any software intentionally designed to cause disruption to a computer, server, client, or computer network, leak private information, gain unauthorized access to information or systems, depri ...

called "Trojan-Downloader.CR64Loader.”

References

External links

* {{Tencent Browser-based game websites Swiss websites Mobile content Internet properties established in 2001 IOS games Android (operating system) games Windows Phone games Tencent divisions and subsidiaries 2001 establishments in Switzerland 2015 mergers and acquisitions