Company:Akella
Industry | Video games |
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Fate | Bankruptcy, Dissolved |
Founded | 1993 |
Defunct | 2012 |
Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
Number of employees | 250 (2012) |
Divisions | Akella Online |
Website | akella |
Akella (Russian: Акелла) was a Russian software company specializing in the development, publishing and distribution of video games and multimedia products. The founders of Akella met in 1993 and decided to start a company together, and in 1995 formed Akella. The company comprised five in-house development teams, a publishing house, a distribution center, a localization team and a quality assurance department; in total, 250 people were employed by Akella. There were several sub-brands owned by Akella, i.e. Macho Studios that developed erotic games and published Japanese hentai dating sims.[1][2]
The company is named after a Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book character, Akela the wolf, and its logo is a wolf.
Defunct status
During 2012 the company was amid multiple lawsuits totaling ₽200,000,000[3] (roughly $6,000,000), that combined with the significant developmental difficulties and commercial failings of Postal III pushed Akella to the verge of bankruptcy. As a result, the company, while technically still existing, has effectively ceased operations since 2012.[4]
Games
Year | Title | Platform(s) | Developer(s) | Publisher(s) |
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1997 | Postal | Windows | Running with Scissors | Ripcord Games, Loki Entertainment, Running with Scissors, Akella (in Russia) |
1998 | Liquidator | MS-DOS | Partizan Software | Akella[5] |
2000 | Sea Dogs | Windows | Akella | Bethesda Softworks |
2001 | Age of Sail II | Windows | Akella | Bethesda Softworks |
2002 | Privateers Bounty: Age of Sail II | Windows | Akella | 1C Company |
2003 | Bomber Fun | Windows | LightBrain | Akella (in Russia) |
2003 | Postal 2 | Windows | Running with Scissors | Whiptail Interactive, Running with Scissors, Akella (in Russia) |
2003 | Postal 2: Share the Pain | Windows | Running with Scissors | Whiptail Interactive, Running with Scissors, Akella (in Russia) |
2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean | Windows, Xbox | Akella | Bethesda Softworks and 1C Conmpany |
2004 | Sabotain | Windows | Avalon Style Entertainment | Akella |
2004 | Red Skies Over Europe | Windows | Interactive Vision | Akella |
2005 | Metalheart: Replicants Rampage | Windows | Numlock Software | DreamCatcher and Akella |
2003 | Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend | Windows | Running with Scissors | Whiptail Interactive, Running with Scissors, Akella (in Russia) |
2005 | Postal 2: Corkscrew Rules! | Windows | Avalon Style Entertainment | Akella |
2006 | Evil Days of Luckless John | Windows | Centauri Production | CINEMAX, Akella |
2006 | Tanita | Windows | Trickster Games | Akella |
2006 | Age of Pirates | Windows | Akella | 1C Company |
2006 | Sakura Wars | Windows | Sega, Red Entertainment | Akella (in Russia) |
2007 | Tarr Chronicles: Sign of Ghosts | Windows | Quazar Studio | Akella |
2007 | Galactic Assault | Windows | Wargaming | Akella |
2007 | Inhabited Island: Prisoner of Power | Windows | Orion | Akella |
2007 | Hard to be a God | Windows | Burut CT | Nobilis, Akella |
2007 | Swashbucklers | Windows | Akella | 1C Company |
2007 | Empire above all | Windows | Icehill | Akella |
2007 | Inhabited Island | Windows | Step Creative Group | Akella |
2007 | Dead Mountaineer's Hotel | Windows | Electronic Paradise | Akella |
2008 | Sakura Wars 2 | Windows | Sega, Red Entertainment | Akella |
2009 | A Stroke of Fate: Operation Valkyrie | Windows | SPLine | Akella |
2009 | A Stroke of Fate: Operation Bunker | Windows | SPLine | Akella |
2009 | Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships | Windows | Akella | Playlogic |
2009 | PT Boats | Windows | Akella | Battlefront.com and Akella |
2010 | Disciples III | Windows | .dat | Kalypso Media, Akella |
2010 | PT Boats: South Gambit | Windows | Akella | Battlefront.com, Akella |
2011 | Disciples III: Resurrection | Windows | .dat | Akella |
2011 | Postal III | Windows | Trashmasters, Running with Scissors | Akella |
2012 | Sea Dogs: To Each His Own | Windows | BlackMark Studio | Akella |
References
- ↑ Костин, Семён (2018-04-03). "Война Сакуры: как «Акелла» опередила весь мир — Аниме на DTF". https://dtf.ru/anime/17988-voyna-sakury-kak-akella-operedila-ves-mir.
- ↑ "PLAYER ONE" (in ru). https://games.mail.ru/pc/articles/feat/kak_sozdavalys_russike_eroticheskie_igry/.
- ↑ Roman Dorokhov (9 August 2012). "'Akella' finished: 200 million ruble lawsuits filed" (in ru). Ведомости. http://www.vedomosti.ru/technology/articles/2012/08/09/akella-doigralsya:-ot-nego-trebuyut-200-mln-rub..
- ↑ Anastasia Alekseevskikh (14 June 2012). "Video game developer 'Akella' on the verge of bankruptcy" (in ru). Маркер. http://marker.ru/news/527493.
- ↑ "Ликвидатор". https://www.igromania.ru/game/16623/Likvidator.html.
External links
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akella.
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