MAG Interactive is a Swedish mobile game developer and publisher founded in 2010 by Daniel Hasselberg, Roger Skagervall, Kaj Nygren, Johan Persson, Fredrik Stenh and Anders Larsson. Best known for its wordgame Ruzzle, MAG Interactive focuses on the casual games market by developing social and educational based games for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Facebook News Feed, Messenger and iMessage.
Key Employees
- Daniel Hasselberg -CEO
- Kaj Nygren - CTO
- Johan Persson - VP of Product
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History
Founding
Before creating MAG interactive, founders Daniel Hasselberg and Kaj Nygren met in 1999 while working at an Ericsson research lab. Together with mutual friend Roger Skagervall, they created a small company called "Connect Things". From that company, the three entrepreneurs went on to create "Mobile Access Group Sweden AB" in 2003, which originally focused on music streaming platforms. With the addition of Anders Larsson, Frederik Stenh and Johan Persson, Mobile Access Group Sweden AB transitioned into app development consulting in 2008. Four years later in 2012, the now named MAG Interactive, released their first proprietary game onto the Swedish market . The word play based game was called "Rumble" and went on to be re-named "Ruzzle", it is the cornerstone of MAG's game line up. From that point on MAG developed many other social game concepts, including "Word Brain".
Acquiring Delinquent
In 2015 MAG Interactive acquired UK-based development studio Delinquent, increasing their staff number to 50 people. Their first joint project was a free-to-play match-3 game, Potion Pop , which successfully received millions of downloads.
Acquiring FEO Media and IPO
In 2017, MAG Interactive underwent some structural changes as a company. The first being the October acquisition of Swedish game studio FEO Media, maker of QuizKampen . In addition to the acquisition, MAG Interactive became a publicly traded company on December 8th, with its listing on NASDAQ First North .
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Awards
Tech 5 2014 - Jury Prize
Hit Bolagen 2014 - #1
Deloitte Fast 50. 2015 - #7 Growth rate 929% between 2011-2014
Deloitte Fast 50 2016 - #17 Growth rate 688% between 2012-2015
Inc 5000 2017 - #914
Games
In 2012 MAG Interactive published its first mobile game called Ruzzle, other games created by MAG Interactive include WordBrain, WordBrain 2, PotionPop, Wordalot, Wordalot Express, QuizCross, and Ruzzle Adventure. Each game has a multi-million player base that collectively reached 100 million downloads in 2016.
List of Games Developed/Published by MAG Interactive
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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