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Supercell is a mobile game development company based in Helsinki, Finland.
Founded in May 2010, the company's debut game was the browser game Gunshine.net, and after its release in 2011, Supercell started developing games for mobile devices.
Since then, the company has fully released four mobile games: Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, and Clash Royale, which are freemium games and have been extremely successful for the company, the first two generating revenue of $2.4 million a day in 2013.
Accel Partners invested $12 million in Supercell in 2011, and in October 2013 it was announced that the Japanese company GungHo Online Entertainment and its parent SoftBank had acquired 51% of the company for a reported $2.1 billion. On 1 June 2015, SoftBank acquired an additional 22.7% stake in Supercell, which brought their total stake to 73.2% of the company and made them the sole external shareholder.
In 2016, Supercell reported annual revenues of around €2.11 billion. In three years, the company's revenues have grown a total of 800 percent, from 78.4 million (2012).
In June 2016 Tencent announced a deal to acquire 84.3% of Supercell with USD 8.6 billion. Japan's SoftBank values Supercell at $10.2 billion.
In December, 2016 Supercell launched a web animated series Clash-A-Rama.
Company Coverage
Brawl Stars is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a thrilling content update
Mo.co is Supercell's upcoming monster-hunting game, now in open beta in the US
Clash of Clans launches Halloween-themed cinematic along with plenty of October updates
Supercell has teased a monster hunting game called mo.co, which enters beta testing later this month
Clash of Clans and Clash Royale are now available on PC through Google Play Games
Supercell turns chess solutions into Clash of Clans and Clash Royale codes in latest ad campaign
Clash Royale adds Card Evolution update with epic "Rize of the Fenix" (Tenacious D) video
Squad Busters, Supercell's upcoming squad building action game, is hosting a new beta test this week
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Dubai GameExpo Summit 2024 | Middle East | May 1st |
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GameDev Atlantic 2024 | May 4th | |
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Mobidictum Meetup Tallinn May 2024 | Europe | May 21st |
Israel Mobile Summit 2024 | Middle East | Jun 6th |
DevGAMM Vilnius 2024 | Europe | Jun 14th |
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