Wanako Studios Ltd.

Overview

Wanako Games is a game development studio founded in 2002. After three years, at the end of 2005, they had already finished and published 9 games. Their main development studio is located in Santiago, Chile (Latin America) with four teams working on the projects. They are licensed developers for Microsoft and Nintendo. Their line of business is PC games and downloadable/casual games. They have also developed for the Xbox, Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS.

They have also designed a game framework and development tool: Tongas, usable for multiple genres, with the possibility to integrate it into existing middleware and game engines.

Some of their games are:

Assault Heroes 2 (Xbox 360 Arcade - May 2008)
Assault Heroes (Xbox 360 Arcade - December 2006)
everGirl (PC - October 2005)
Polar Tubing (PC - August 2005)
Groove-O-Matic (PC - November 2004)
Ford Virtual Racing (PC - July 2004)
Phoenix Assault (PC - October 2004)
BlackHawk Striker 2 (PC - May 2004)

In February 2007 the company was acquired by Vivendi Universal Games, Inc.. It was eventually absorbed into Activision Blizzard when the acquisition and merger of Vivendi Games took place. The Sierra Online division Wanako worked for was soon dissolved. In November 2008 Artificial Mind & Movement (now Behaviour Interactive) announced to have acquired Wanako Games.

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