Mr.Goodliving

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Mr.Goodliving
Company typePrivate (subsidiary of RealNetworks)
Industry Video games
Founded1999
Headquarters Helsinki, Finland
Website www.mrgoodliving.com

Mr.Goodliving Ltd. was a Finnish video game developer and a video game publisher based in Helsinki, Finland. It was founded in 1999, and acquired by RealNetworks on 6 May 2005. [1] Mr.Goodliving was focused on games for mobile phones, the iPhone and other high-end portable devices.

The company was best known for the casual sports game franchise Playman Sports, [2] spanning numerous incarnations such as Playman Summer Games, Playman Winter Games [3] and Playman World Soccer. Along with original intellectual property, the company worked with several high-profile licenses such as Trivial Pursuit, [4] South Park, [5] Scrabble, [6] and the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. [7]

In addition to its games, Mr.Goodliving developed EMERGE, a proprietary development platform which enables rapid and scalable publishing of games to more than 2000 handsets in 20 languages. [3]

On February 9, 2011, RealNetworks unexpectedly announced the closure of Mr.Goodliving. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "REALNETWORKS ENTERS MOBILE GAMES MARKET: ACQUIRES EUROPEAN-BASED MR. GOODLIVING LTD". investor.realnetworks.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2010-02-03.
  2. ↑ "Playman Sports". www.playmansports.com.
  3. 1 2 "Playman Winter Games Wins Best Sports Game Award". GamesIndustry.biz. 17 January 2005.
  4. ↑ "Trivial Pursuit: Deluxe Edition Review". www.pocketgamer.co.uk.
  5. ↑ "South Park Mega Millionaire Review". www.pocketgamer.co.uk.
  6. ↑ "Scrabble Mobile Review". www.pocketgamer.co.uk.
  7. ↑ "Vancouver 2010 Review". www.pocketgamer.co.uk.
  8. ↑ "Real sulkee suomalaisen Mr. Goodliving -pelikehittäjän - potkut 44:lle" [Real closes Finnish Mr. Goodliving game developer - 44 fired] (in Finnish). DOME.fi. 9 February 2011. Archived from the original on 12 February 2011.
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