Nival (company)
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | November 18, 1996 |
| Founder(s) | Sergey Orlovskiy |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Sergey Orlovskiy (President) |
| Employees | 200+ |
| Website | Nival.com |
Nival is a global video game developer and publisher of social strategy games with extensive experience in strategy game development and massively multiplayer online game publishing. Nival is headquartered in Moscow and was founded in 1996 by Russian games industry veteran Sergey Orlovskiy, who currently serves as company president. With offices in Los Angeles, Minsk and St. Petersburg, Nival currently has more than 200 employees and three development studios.
Nival also operates the popular Russian gaming network, ZZima.com, which features many free-to-play online games, including Cabal Online, Dragonica, Seven Souls and Shaiya.
Since 1996, Nival has developed several popular games, including Heroes of Might and Magic V, Blitzkrieg, Silent Storm, and Etherlords. Nival’s internal development studios are focused on multiplayer online projects, including the cross-platform, social strategy game, Prime World. Nival also works with external developers, and makes mobile games at its unique development studio, Nival Games Lab, which is an incubator for game developers.
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[edit] Background
Nival is the developer of two popular game engines, the Silent Storm Engine and the Enigma Engine, that were reused in several third-party titles.
In early 2005, the part of Nival operating under the name "Nival Interactive" was bought by Ener1 Group, a Florida-based holdings company, for around US$10 million. Ener1 has stated that it will "integrate Nival's artists, designers, and programmers with its US-based video gaming interests".[citation needed] On November 30, 2007, Sergey Orlovskiy regained full control of Nival Interactive.[1]
In early 2010 another part of Nival named "Astrum Nival" was bought by the largest Russian portal Mail.Ru for more than US $100 million.
[edit] Games
- Rage of Mages (1998) (known as Allods in Russia and CIS)
- Rage of Mages II: Necromancer (1999) (known as Allods II in Russia and CIS)
- Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul (CIS 2000, EU & USA 2001) (known as a third game in the Allods series)
- Etherlords (2001)
- Etherlords II (2003)
- Blitzkrieg (2003)
- Blitzkrieg 2 (2005)
- Silent Storm (2003)
- Silent Storm: Sentinels (2004)
- Hammer & Sickle (Russia 2005, USA 2005)
- Night Watch (Russia 2005, USA 2006)
- Heroes of Might and Magic V (May 18, 2006)
- Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate (November 2006)
- Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East (October 2007)
- King's Bounty: Legions (Summer 2011)
- Prime World (Q2 2012)
[edit] References
- ^ "Sergey Orlovskiy regains full control of Nival Interactive". Nival Interactive. http://www.nival.com/eng/news/2007/document354.shtml. Retrieved June 12, 2009.
