Type | Privately Owned |
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Industry | Video games |
Founded | July 18, 2002 |
Headquarters | Middletown, Connecticut |
Key people | Brandon Curiel,Founder, CEO, Lead Designer Jason Cody, Founder, Technical Director Michael Hughes, Founder, Lead Artist Anthony Ceddia, Founder, Art Director |
Products | Book of Heroes(iOS, Android) Space Miner: Space Ore Bust (iOS) Ninjatown Trees of Doom! (iOS, Android) Ninjatown (Nintendo DS) Monopoly (iOS, Android, Nintendo DS) NBA Live (iOS, BREW, J2ME) High Seas: Guns & Gold (BREW, J2ME) Super Putt Xtreme (BREW, J2ME) |
Number of employees | 19 (2012) |
Website | www.venan.com |
Venan Entertainment, Inc. is a mobile and handheld game development studio based in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 2002, Venan began primarily as a Java/Brew-based mobile phone game developer, but has since branched off to develop games for Nintendo DS, iPod, and iPhone OS. Venan's most recent titles include their fifth fully independent, self-published title Book of Heroes, and the TouchArcade and EGM Game of the Year Space Miner: Space Ore Bust,. [1] Both are available for the iOS devices. Other recent Venan-developed titles include Ninjatown for the Nintendo DS, Monopoly Worldwide and Monopoly Classic for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and NBA Live for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Venan has also developed and released many mobile phone titles, including High Seas: Guns & Gold, [2] TI Street Racing, [3] True Crime: New York City, [4] and NBA Street. [5]
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