Wanako Studios

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Wanako Studios is a Chilean video game developer wholly owned by Artificial Mind and Movement. It currently develops downloadable games for Microsoft Windows, the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation 3's Playstation Network, and the Nintendo Wii. In the past, they have created several popular games for Wild Tangent including Jewel Thief and Blackhawk Striker 2, and have also worked with THQ and Ford Motor Company. More recently, they have developed Tetris for the PlayStation Network and Doritos Crash Course (for the Xbox 360) as part of Microsoft's Unlock the Xbox contest.

[edit] History / Events

The company was founded in 2002 by Esteban Sosnik, Tiburcio de la Carcova, and Wenceslao Casares. It had headquarters in New York City with a primary site in Santiago, Chile. With a stated goal to leverage Latin American software talent, they are the largest game development studio in Latin America.^{[citation needed]} According to their own press information, they rely heavily on agile software development methods such as SCRUM.

On February 20, 2007, the studio announced that it had been purchased by Vivendi Games's Sierra Entertainment.^[1] In the same week, Xbox Live Arcade portfolio manager Ross Erickson left Microsoft to join sister-organization Sierra Online.

On November 20, 2008, Wanako Studios was acquired by Artificial Mind and Movement, Canada's largest independent game developer.^[2].

On November 8, 2010, Artificial Mind and Movement reverted its name (and that of all its internal studios, including Wanako) to Behaviour Interactive.