Nival (company)
Nival (company)
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Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | November 18, 1996 (1996-11-18) |
| Founder | Sergey Orlovskiy |
| Headquarters | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Sergey Orlovskiy (CEO) |
| Products | Etherlords Blitzkrieg Silent Storm Heroes of Might and Magic V |
| Website | nival.com |
Nival is a European video game developer headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus, with development offices in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Moscow, Russia. It was founded by Russian games industry veteran Sergey Orlovskiy in 1996, who currently serves as company CEO.
Contents
1 History
2 Games
3 References
4 External links
History[edit]
The company was founded in 1996 as Nival Interactive, and became famous as the developer of several successful role-playing and strategy series, including Rage of Mages (known as Allods in Russia), Blitzkrieg and Etherlords. Nival also developed Heroes of Might and Magic V and two add-ons, published by Ubisoft.
Nival began to self-publish its own games in 2005. Nival finances and publishes external developers including KranX Productions, creators of King's Bounty: Legions and Bytex, developers of Berserk Online.
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. On November 30, 2007, Sergey Orlovskiy regained full control of Nival Interactive.[1]
In early 2010, another part of Nival, Astrum Nival, was bought by the largest Russian portal Mail.Ru for more than $100 million, becoming a part of Astrum Online Entertainment. Currently Nival’s internal development studios are focused on PC and mobile projects.
In 2011, Nival Interactive was merged with Nival Network into a new company, called Nival. Nival has developed and launched Prime World, King's Bounty: Legions and has several projects in development.[2]
In December 2013, Nival raised $6 million in its Series A funding round led by Almaz Capital. The funds will be used for global expansion.[3]
In February 2017 Nival announced the world’s first Neural Network AI for RTS for its game Blitzkrieg 3.[4]
Games[edit]
Rage of Mages (1998)
- Rage of Mages II: Necromancer (1999)
Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul (CIS 2000, EU & USA 2001)
Etherlords (2001)
Etherlords II (2003)
Blitzkrieg (2003)
Blitzkrieg 2 (2005)
Blitzkrieg 3 (2017)
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)
Allods Online (October 2009)
King's Bounty: Legions (August 2011)
Emaki (Summer 2012)
Prime World (Russia March 2012, Turkey October 2012, USA March 2014)
Prime World: Alchemy[5] (December 2012)
Prime World: Defenders (June 2013)
Etherlords (iOS)[6] (September 2014)
Prime World: Defenders 2 (December 2015)
Blitzkrieg 3 (June 2017)
References[edit]
^ "Sergey Orlovskiy regains full control of Nival Interactive". Nival Interactive. Archived from the original on October 9, 2010. Retrieved June 12, 2009..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ "Consolidation Creates New, Extraordinary Gaming Brand | 2011 | News Feed | News". Nival. 2011-04-28. Retrieved 2012-10-01.
^ "Prime World strategy-game developer Nival raises $6M in latest funding round". VBGamesBeat. December 11, 2013. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
^ "Nival announces the world's first Neural Network AI for RTS for its game Blitzkrieg 3".
^ "Prime World: Alchemy (Kindle Tablet Edition)".
^ "Nival".
External links[edit]
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