Miniclip SA is a
mobile game publisher and former
browser game
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Some browser games are also available as mobile apps, PC games, or on ...
website
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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
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Mathematics and computing
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on its website.
In 2015,
Tencent
Tencent Holdings Ltd. () is a Chinese multinational technology and entertainment conglomerate and holding company headquartered in Shenzhen. It is one of the highest grossing multimedia companies in the world based on revenue. It is also the wo ...
acquired majority stakes of Miniclip. In December 2016, Miniclip achieved 1 billion downloads across its mobile games on
iOS
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware. It is the operating system that powers many of the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone; the term also include ...
,
Android, and
Windows
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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 and 8 Ball Pool.
In June 2022, Miniclip acquired
SYBO, the publisher of ''
Subway Surfers
''Subway Surfers'' is an endless runner mobile game co-developed by Kiloo and SYBO Games, private companies based in Denmark. It is available on Android (operating system), Android, iOS, HarmonyOS, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, and Windows Phone plat ...
'', in an undisclosed deal.
Studios
Mobile games
Miniclip has developed and published numerous mobile games for
iOS
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware. It is the operating system that powers many of the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone; the term also include ...
,
Android,
Symbian, and
Windows Phone
Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune. Windows Phone featured a new user interface derived from the Metro design l ...
such as ''8 Ball Pool'', ''Golf Battle'', ''
Gravity Guy
''Gravity Guy'' is a 2010 in video gaming, 2010 Side-scrolling video game, side-scrolling Platform game#Endless running games, endless runner Action game, action Arcade game, arcade video game developed and published by Miniclip.
Availability ...
'', ''
Bloons Tower Defense'', ''
Plague Inc.'' for Android, ''Berry Rush'', ''
Agar.io'', ''
Diep.io'', ''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
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announced on the
Windows
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blog on 31 August 2012 (see also
List of Xbox games on Windows
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) that Miniclip games will be able to distribute their games on the
Xbox
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division of
Windows 8
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. Miniclip games that are supported by
Xbox
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for
Windows 8
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include ''
Gravity Guy
''Gravity Guy'' is a 2010 in video gaming, 2010 Side-scrolling video game, side-scrolling Platform game#Endless running games, endless runner Action game, action Arcade game, arcade video game developed and published by Miniclip.
Availability ...
'', ''iStunt 2'', and ''Monster Island''. ''
Gravity Guy
''Gravity Guy'' is a 2010 in video gaming, 2010 Side-scrolling video game, side-scrolling Platform game#Endless running games, endless runner Action game, action Arcade game, arcade video game developed and published by Miniclip.
Availability ...
'' was released on
Windows Store
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on 29 November 2010.
In April 2013, most of the Miniclip games for
Windows 8
Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012; it was subsequently made available for download via MSDN and TechNet on August 15, 2012, and later to ...
and
Windows Phone
Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune. Windows Phone featured a new user interface derived from the Metro design l ...
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
The Xbox One is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. Announced in May 2013, it is the successor to Xbox 360 and the third base console in the Xbox series of video game consoles. It was first released in North America, parts of ...
,
PC, and
PlayStation 4, titled ''MX Nitro''.
Malicious software issues
On 1 September 2005, the
United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is an organization within the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Specifically, US-CERT is a branch of the Office of ...
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 called "Trojan-Downloader.CR64Loader.”
References
External links
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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