Miniclip SA is a mobile game publisher and former

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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

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on its website. In 2015,

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acquired majority stakes of Miniclip. In December 2016, Miniclip achieved 1 billion downloads across its mobile games on

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, Android, and

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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 ''

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'', in an undisclosed deal.

Studios

Mobile games

Miniclip has developed and published numerous mobile games for

, Android, Symbian, and

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such as ''8 Ball Pool'', ''Golf Battle'', ''

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'', '' 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,

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announced on the

blog on 31 August 2012 (see also

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) that Miniclip games will be able to distribute their games on the

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division of

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. Miniclip games that are supported by

for

include ''

'', ''iStunt 2'', and ''Monster Island''. ''

'' was released on

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on 29 November 2010. In April 2013, most of the Miniclip games for

and

were distributed for free for one year.

Xbox One, PC, and PS4

On 14 February 2017, Miniclip released their first game compatible with

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, PC, and PlayStation 4, titled ''MX Nitro''.

Malicious software issues

On 1 September 2005, the

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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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