| Website | nival.com |
| Category | Games, Video and Entertainment |
| Employees | 300 |
| Founded | 11/96 |
| Description | Online Games Developer/Publisher |
| Total | $12M |
| Unattributed, 11/09 | $5M |
| Unattributed, 3/10 1C Company Sergey Orlovskiy Digital Sky Technologies | $7M |
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. 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.
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 works with external developers, and makes mobile games at its unique development studio, Nival Games Lab, which is an incubator for game developers.
