) 2011 partial acquisition of Reakktor Media, Germany (Neocron, Black Prophecy), founded 1991, shut down in 2012 Company homepage first appeared in 2007 - and finally disappeared in 2019 (but may have been abandoned before that) ) 2011 partial acquisition of OnsOn Soft, Korea (Fiesta Online) - could not find any hard info. ) 2008 Gamigo itself is acquired by Axel Springer AG List of mergers and acquisitions (as far as could dig out): They even proudly present their acquisitions in the about section of their homepage: At least that's how they present themselves in their press releases. Gamigo is an investor oriented company, that creates value for shareholders through acquistions of fast growing companies. Soon after that, they went public (IPO) in 2019.
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By 2013 they also started buying licenses/rights for publishing games to the American market.Īfter multiple series of mergers and acquisitions throughout Europe and Asia, their 2018 acquisition of Trion Worlds marked their big forage into the American market. It wasn't until 2008 that they started expanding in the EU, and servicing other languages than just German - starting with French and Spanish.
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They initially started to sell subscriptions, but eventually switched to free to play models for all of their games, with players reporting varying degrees of aggressive predatory sales practices in their games. In 2001 they started purchasing rights/licenses for publishing existing games into the German market (providing translations and servers): The 4th Coming, Anarchy Online, Puzzle Pirates, Last Chaos, Fiesta Online - while also acting as a publisher to some German developers, for games like Cultures Online and Ufo Online. Gamigo earned somewhat of a notoriety in the German gaming scene after "overtaking" and "commercializing/destroying" several pre-existing gaming-communities and fan-sites. Gamigo provided free hosting for those fan-sites and in return placed advertisments on those sites - but the all the content, news and moderation of those sites was typically unpaid volunteer labor. They also provided (German) online communities for various games, although for the most part those were fan-managed websites and forums. They even named their brand "Gamigostrike" - that's how central those Counterstrike servers were to their server business. Next to their gaming magazine core business, they started renting out game servers for first person shooters, especially the original Counterstrike (the Half-Life mod). Very soon after the initial founding, Gamigo attracted funding through two venture captial firms. Unlike Gamestar and PCGames they never released any print issues though, and remained an online-only magazine.
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Gamigo was founded in 2000 in Hamburg, Germany as a professional online gaming magazine and community platform - in direct competition to Gamestar and PCGames. Own research, using mostly official company homepages, Wikipedia (both English and German), LinkedIn and to view older versions of official company homepages. This is supposed a neutral collection of facts, purely for informative purposes.
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