Behaviour Interactive Chile Ltda. (Behaviour Santiago; formerly Wanako Games Chile Ltda.) was a Chilean video game developer based in

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos ...

. The company was founded as Wanako Games in 2002, by Esteban Sosnik, Tiburcio de la Cárcova, Santiago Bilinkis,

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. The studio was first acquired by

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in February 2007 and ended up under

Artificial Mind and Movement Behaviour Interactive Inc. is a Canadian video game development studio specializing in the production of 2D and 3D action/adventure games for home video game consoles, handheld game consoles, PCs and mobile. Based in Montreal, Canada, the compan ...

in December 2008. When Artificial Mind and Movement was renamed

Behaviour Interactive Behaviour Interactive Inc. is a Canadian video game development studio specializing in the production of 2D and 3D action/adventure games for home video game consoles, handheld game consoles, PCs and mobile. Based in Montreal, Canada, the compa ...

in 2010, Wanako Games was renamed Behaviour Santiago. Behaviour Santiago was shut down on 20 November 2017.

History

Wanako Games was founded in 2002 by Esteban Sosnik, Tiburcio de la Cárcova, Santiago Bilinkis,

. In February 2007, the studio was acquired by Vivendi Games for US$10 million, leaving it under the umbrella of Sierra Online, the Vivendi division in charge of producing online games and which, until then, had been the distributor of games. Wanako Games. Casares withdrew from the company after the sale. On 20 February 2007, the studio announced that it had been acquired by

. After the merger between Vivendi Games and

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that formed

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in July 2008, Wanako Games was sold by Activision to

on 15 December 2008. On 8 November 2010, Artificial Mind and Movement changed its name to Behaviour Interactive, also renaming Wanako Games to Behaviour Santiago. The studio was shut down on 20 November 2017. A mobile game based on ''

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'' was finished before shutting down and was released on 1 February 2018.

Games developed

References

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