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Websitenival.com
Twitter@nival_network
CategoryGames, Video and Entertainment
Phone+7 (495) 363-9630
Employees300
Founded11/96
DescriptionOnline Games Developer/Publisher

Offices

Moscow , RUS
10 bld. 10, 1st Volokolamsky proezd
Moscow , 123060, RUS

People

Funding

TOTAL $12M
FUNDING TOTAL $12M
Venture Round, 11/09
$5M
Venture Round, 3/10
1C Company
Sergey Orlovskiy
Digital Sky Technologies
$7M

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Nival

Nival is a global video games developer and publisher of cross-platform games with extensive experience in strategy games development and massively multiplayer online games publishing. Nival is headquartered in Moscow and was founded by Russian games industry veteran Sergey Orlovskiy, who currently serves as company CEO.

With offices in Santa Monica, Calif.; Kiev, Ukraine; Minsk, Belarus and St. Petersburg, Russia, Nival currently has more than 300 employees and four development studios.

Since 1996, Nival has developed several popular games, including Heroes of Might and Magic V, Blitzkrieg, Silent Storm, and Etherlords. Nival’s internal development studios are focused on major cross-platform online and mobile projects, including the innovative and award-winning cross-platform action strategy game Prime World.

Nival’s publishing division localizes popular online games for the Russian market from international game developers in US, Europe, South Korea and China. As a leading publisher in the online space, Nival continuously partners with the industry’s best companies to publish innovative and highly successful game products and services.

The company has launched a variety of online multiplayer games, including such world-renowned games as Forsaken World, Seven Souls, Cabal Online, Shaiya and Dragonica. Players access the game through Nival’s gaming and social networking service, ZZima.com.

Nival also finances and publishes external developers including the renowned KranX Productions, creators of King’s Bounty: Legions.Nival is a global games developer and publisher of social strategy games with extensive experience in strategy game development and massively multiplayer online game publishing. Nival is headquartered in Moscow and was founded by Russian games industry veteran Sergey Orlovskiy, who currently serves as company president.

With offices in Los Angeles, Minsk, Belarus and St. Petersburg, Russia, Nival currently has more than 200 employees and three development studios.

Since 1996, Nival has developed several popular games, including Heroes of Might and Magic V, Blitzkrieg, Silent Storm, and Etherlords. Nival’s internal development studios are focused on major multiplayer online projects, including the innovative cross-platform, social strategy game, Prime World.

Nival also operates the popular Russian gaming network, ZZima.com, which features many free-to-play online games, including Seven Souls, Cabal Online, Dragonica and Shaiya.

Nival also works with external developers, and makes mobile games at its unique development studio, Nival Games Lab, which is an incubator for game developers.

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Nival screenshot
Above: Home Page
Uploaded: 11/25/09
Nival screenshot
Above: Home Page
Uploaded: 8/3/12

Sources

  1. Russian Social Strategy Game Raises $5 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. http://blog.quintura.com/2010/03/16/dst-1c-and-sergey-orlovskiy-invest-7-million-in-nival-network/ (blog.quintura.com) [edit]
  3. 1C Joins DST and Sergey Orlovskiy in Nival Investment (invest-iq.com) [edit]
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