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Star Arcade
Star Arcade is a mobile social video game company established in 2010 in Jyväskylä, Finland, by serial entrepreneurs Harri Myllylä and Jonne Castrén. The company offers wide range of mobile games for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Symbian, S40, Meego, Maemo, BB10, Bada, as well as Facebook.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/flow/item/15901_Real-time_multi-player_games_w.php )〕 All the games are so called freemium titles, which means they are available to download for free, but users have the choice of making various in-game purchases to gain premium features, level upgrades and virtual goods.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.arcticstartup.com/2011/03/15/star-arcade-is-the-gaming-community-for-the-next-billion )〕
The company aims to engage “the next billion gamers” from developing markets such as Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia and India.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mobileworldlive.com/star-arcade-targeting-the-next-billion-gamers )〕 Roughly half a year after their first launches, the company’s games had acquired total more than 5 million downloads from over 180 countries around the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mobile-ent.biz/games/star-arcade-notches-5m-game-downloads/034683 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/Star+Arcade+news/news.asp?c=31604 )〕 In 28th of November 2011 Star Arcade became the first company in the world to develop and launch Facebook-to-mobile multiplayer game Diamonds Capture.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://wirelessduniya.com/2012/02/15/star-arcade-launches-worlds-first-facebook-to-mobile-multi-player-game/ )〕 Since then all their games have shared the same basic concept of real-time/synchronous cross-platform multiplayer gaming. This means that users can play against each other regardless of their device, network or location.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theaveragegamer.com/2011/03/15/star-arcade-a-new-mobile-social-gaming-community-also-free-games/ )〕
Despite being a relatively young business, Star Arcade has received several acknowledgements from the industry. In February 2012 the company was chosen as a runner-up at Mobile Application Week Helsinki.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://bthoskins.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/and-the-winner-is-2/ )〕 Later that year in October they were nominated in “The Best Growth Stage Start-up Category” of the G Start-up awards at the Global Mobile Internet Conference, and at the same time they were also selected to the Mobile Entertainment Magazine Awards in the “Best Social Games Service Provider” category.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mobile-ent.biz/industry/finalists-confirmed-for-me-awards-2012/039099 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.star-arcade.com/corporate/view/press/StarArcadeAwardsPR15oct2012.pdf )〕 More recently, in March 2013 the company was also selected as a finalist in Red Herring's Top 100 Europe Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.redherring.com/events/red-herring-europe/2013_finalists/ )〕
== Games developed ==
Star Arcade currently supports and distributes eight of all the games they have developed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wamda.com/2014/03/a-finnish-social-gaming-startup-foresees-growth-in-the-middle-east )〕 Currently they're working on the new Jelly Wars 2.0, which is set to be released sometime during 2014. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jellywars.com )〕 Note that the order of the listed platforms does not represent the publishing order of the particular game on those platforms.
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