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SEATTLE, Jan. 6 -Big Fish Games, Inc., (http://www.bigfishgames.com) a top 4 casual games destination website, today announced they have acquired the French-based casual game developer FunPause EURL. FunPause (http://www.funpause.com) is a leading casual game developer based in Montpellier, France whom recently developed the hit game titles Atlantis ( http://www.bigfishgames.com/downloads/atlantisarcade/index.html ) and Fairies ( http://www.bigfishgames.com/downloads/fairies/index.html ), both of which topped the charts and even hit number one on many of the leading casual game distribution sites including Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Shockwave.com, and Pogo [an Electronics Arts company]. FunPause is best known for their cinema-quality game production values, soothing music and addictive game play.
Big Fish Games adds FunPause's top-selling downloadable and online games to the existing Big Fish Games Studios portfolio of 20 downloadable game titles and over 55 online game titles. "FunPause came roaring onto the casual games scene with some of the most beautiful and, more importantly, biggest selling titles this fall," said Patrick Wylie, Vice President Big Fish Games Studios. "FunPause brings AAA production values found in core console games to the easy-to-get-into addictive world of casual games."
All of the existing FunPause employees will join the Big Fish Games team, but remain in a new branch office in Montpellier, France. "We are excited to be a part of the fastest growing casual game site in the world," said Emmanuel Marty, Director Big Fish Games Studios Europe and former CEO of FunPause EURL. "We are being given the liberty to maintain our creative freedom to produce award winning games, while benefiting from the years of experience and success that Big Fish Games brings to this market."
The addition of FunPause also allows Big Fish Games to expand into the area of casual games for Mac users with the FunPause Macintosh games site designed for distributing and selling Mac OS games at http://www.funpause.com.
In other news, Big Fish Games today announced hitting a game distribution milestone of launching 365 downloadable games this year, fulfilling a promise to their customers of "A New Game Every Day."
Other Big Fish Games announcements this year include hitting a milestone of distributing more than 100 million games to more than 25 million customers worldwide, developing more than a dozen industry leading game titles, expanding operations into Germany, and acquiring industry leading community games site Ion Thunder (http://www.IonThunder.com).
About Big Fish Games
Big Fish Games, Inc., a developer, publisher and distributor of casual, family-friendly games, has one of the biggest and highest quality game catalogs on the Internet with over 300 games, a global network reach of over 25 million monthly unique users, and distribution partners such as Nickelodeon and iVillage.com. Through the efforts of a network of over 300 game development partners, Big Fish Games offers consumers "A new game every day" and makes acquiring and playing internet delivered downloadable and online games a safe, easy and reliable experience.
Big Fish Games has emerged as one of the world's largest and the fastest-growing casual game destinations as measured by unique monthly users via comScore Media Metrix 2005 traffic reports. With help from other leading game sites like Yahoo, MSN, Pogo, and AOL the online games industry has grown from obscurity to a thriving, rapidly-growing market. Online games revenue reached $700 million in 2004 according to reports from IDC, a global market intelligence and advisory firm, and is projected to grow to $2.2 billion by 2008.
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