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Company Profile
Critical Force Entertainment
Website
criticalforce.fi/
About
Critical Force Entertainment is a team of passionate creators who strive to make the best competitive games for mobile platforms. While focusing on online multiplayer, they put their best effort into making games that are fun to play on both casual and competitive levels. With exceptional attention to detail, they have a strong ambition to become market leaders in mobile game industry.
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Veli-Pekka Piirainen
Founder / Chairman of the board
Tim Spaninks
Lead Designer
Sami Tolonen
CEO
Juri Juskevits
Head of Community and eSports
Mikael Silvennoinen
Customer Support & Live Ops Lead
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PGC Helsinki Digital: The current state and the future of mobile esports
"Mobile esports will mainstream esports. Mobile reaches a larger and more diverse audience than PC and Console Games
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PGC Digital: Critical Ops fires to 80 million installs worldwide
Five million monthly active users
Team Up
Critical Force partners with Gizer for its Critical Ops community tournament program
Building a better community
Critical Impact
Critical Force customer support and live ops lead Mikael Silvennoinen on landing a dream job in the industry
"You should connect with people from the games industry and just start applying."
Critical Moment
How Critical Force's new CEO is fending off the battle royale threat
“After the dust had settled we managed to maintain a stable player base and eventually recovered to our normal DAU numbers"
Critical Moves
Finnish studio Critical Force names ex-CFO Sami Tolonen as its new CEO
Former CEO and company founder Veli-Pekka Piirainen to focus on role as chairman of the board
Critical
Speaker Spotlight: Critical Force CEO Veli-Pekka Piiranen delves into company growth and culture
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On Tour
Critical Force partners up with ElisaViihde and OnePlus for Critical Ops esports push
The OnePlus Masters tour will be held in eight different locations throughout Finland
Critical
Critical Force snags $6.3 million in funding to scale esports operations for Critical Ops
The FPS has also been downloaded over 40 million times since launching in 2015
Critical Growth
Critical Ops clears one million DAUs and 34 million downloads
Critical Force is excited for the year to come
Critical Downloads
Mobile eSports shooter Critical Ops surpasses 30 million downloads worldwide
Former Kabam CEO Kevin Chou joins the board
Event Cancellation
Critical Force pulls out of Amazon Mobile Masters after Las Vegas shooting
Tournament for FPS Critical Ops cancelled
Critical Hit
Mobile shooter Critical Ops marches past 25 million downloads
860,000 daily active users
Critical Force Seoul
Critical Ops developer opens South Korean office and targets Asia after hitting 22 million downloads
The mobile FPS lines up a new target
Critical Mass
Mobile eSports shooter Critical Ops clears 20 million downloads with no paid UA
Still considered a soft launch title
Critical Training
Critical Force wants to fix Finland's game dev shortage with new academy
20 students at Kajaani University will get specialist coaching and feedback
Critical Downloads
Soft-launched shooter Critical Ops surpasses 15 million downloads
DAUs still sat at 500,000
Critical Figures
Soft-launched mobile shooter Critical Ops surpasses 13 million downloads and 500,000 DAUs
Eyeing up a Spring 2017 release worldwide
Critical Hit?
Critical Force on building Critical Ops as a mobile eSport
Tim Spaninks and Juri Juskevits on the potential of competitive mobile gaming
Critical Reforge
Finnish devs Critical Force and Reforged Studios partner to rise up in the world of mobile eSports
Sharing resources, knowledge, workload, and so on
Blowing Up
Mobile shooter Critical Ops hits 10 million downloads before leaving soft launch
Running tournaments in North America and Europe
Critical Funding
Critical Force raises $4.5 million to push FPS eSports title Critical Ops out to Asia market
Partnering with NHN Entertainment to do so
Pgc Helsinki Speaker Spotlight
Taking baby steps: Critical Force on the current climate of mobile eSports
CEO Veli-Pekka Piirainen tells us what's what
Finnish shooter specialist Critical Force wins our Slush 2014 Big Indie Pitch
Glad Game Studio and Calvino Noir also placed
PG Connects speaker spotlight: Veli-Pekka Piirainen, Critical Force
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