Coming To Pc
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Former Ubisoft RedLynx team working on an unannounced PC title
Company Profile
Supercell
Website
supercell.com/en/
About
Supercell is a mobile game development company based in Helsinki, Finland.
Founded in May 2010, the company's debut game was the browser game Gunshine.net, and after its release in 2011, Supercell started developing games for mobile devices.
Since then, the company has fully released four mobile games: Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, and Clash Royale, which are freemium games and have been extremely successful for the company, the first two generating revenue of $2.4 million a day in 2013.
Accel Partners invested $12 million in Supercell in 2011, and in October 2013 it was announced that the Japanese company GungHo Online Entertainment and its parent SoftBank had acquired 51% of the company for a reported $2.1 billion. On 1 June 2015, SoftBank acquired an additional 22.7% stake in Supercell, which brought their total stake to 73.2% of the company and made them the sole external shareholder.
In 2016, Supercell reported annual revenues of around €2.11 billion. In three years, the company's revenues have grown a total of 800 percent, from 78.4 million (2012).
In June 2016 Tencent announced a deal to acquire 84.3% of Supercell with USD 8.6 billion. Japan's SoftBank values Supercell at $10.2 billion.
In December, 2016 Supercell launched a web animated series Clash-A-Rama.
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Accolades
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Supercharged
Exclusive: Supercell breaks ground with first investment in NFT gaming
Oxalis Games has raised $4.5 million in a seed round led by Blocore and including Supercell, Animoca Brands, and Sir Ian Livingstone
Supercharged
Supercell acquires majority stake in Trailmix with $60 million investment
Majority stake follows 2018 investment of $4.2 million in the London studio
Slave To The Rhythm
How Beatstar survived 24 killed prototypes in five years
Space Ape Games' Charmie Kim and Simon Hade detail the journey from strategy specialists to music genre success via Ed Sheeran and Stan Bush
Hot Five
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Work It
Supercell: "Small teams are a part of Supercell’s identity. What became clear is that not all team situations are the same"
Supercell co-chief people officer Lesley Mansford talks about Supercell's journey to evolve its work culture, lessons you can take from their efforts, and combating industry-wide mental health decline and burnout
Racing To Release
Supercell backed Ultimate Studio launches Hot Lap League
First mobile title from EA and Firemonkeys alumni Tony Lay and Mark Zaloumis
Gdc
GDC: challenging Supercell’s ‘sacred cows’ and internal culture
Supercell’s Lesley Mansford details the company’s efforts to discern and improve its internal culture
Gdc
GDC: Supercell talks expanding the Clash of Clans IP
Supercell’s John Cipriani discusses the evolution of the Clash IP throughout its many titles
Community Made
Supercell expands Brawl Stars community competition to allow 2D designs
Winning designs have a chance to be feature in the game
Zero Cell Count
Supercell halt game downloads in Russia and Belarus
Removes titles from app stores, new downloads prevent, access for existing players to be suspended
Sharing Support
Updated March 8: game companies offer support for Ukraine
Supercell, InGameJob, and John Romaro among others
Investor Encouragement
Supercell highlights excitement for external developers and importance of young talent
The Level Up program begins
Hard Questions At Supercell
Supercell's 45% revenue increase in 2021 follows staff burnout
2021 revenue reached $2.24 billion, and a message about sustainable working from Supercell CEO
Making Of
Supercell talks breaking the mould of puzzle games with Clash Quest
Supercell's Touko Tahkokallio talks us through the journey of Clash Quest, from prototype to its current stage
Featureful
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Our most-viewed features, opinion pieces, and interviews
A Time Of Reflection
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Supercell Sets Up
Supercell launches ambitious new studio in North America
Will create games featuring new and existing IP
Beast Boosts Brawl Stars
Brawl Stars US downloads surge 350% following sponsorship of Mr Beast's Squid Game
Approximately 324 million lifetime downloads
Where's The Hype?
Frogmind rebrands to HypeHype, Supercell invests $15 million
User-generated content platform optimised for touchscreens
Live And Kicking
Why Boom Beach is still booming 8 years on
Supercell game lead Laura Gilliland talks suiting the players' needs
4x Success
US annual spend on mobile strategy games rises 24%, surpassing $4 billion
4X subcategory dominates the space
Carry On Clashing
Clash Mini begins soft launch in Canada and Nordics
Supercell reveals more details about upcoming Clash titles
Heading To The Frontlines
Space Ape Games launches Boom Beach: Frontlines in Canada
Will launch gradually worldwide on iOS and Android
Moba Cash In
Mobile MOBAs generate $300 million a month
Honor of Kings leads the way
News
Supercell-backed Trailmix releases its debut game Love & Pies
A recipe of puzzles and personalisation with a dash of mystery
Poc In Mobile
"I’m a double minority - I’m a woman, and I’m black. You definitely see it and feel it."
Supercell's Sheila Ndungu discusses the importance of representation
Best Of 2021
The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2021
The movers, the shakers, and all those funky moneymakers
Supercell Subterfuge
Everdale was initially soft-launched as Valleys & Villages through a fake company
Game has actually been in testing since September 2020
Hedging Bets
Everdale - Supercell's takes on The Sims meets Animal Crossing
Three Supercell staff speak to us on the development of its first new IP in four years
It's A Peaceful Life
Supercell reveals new co-op builder Everdale, launches beta
Marks the first new IP from Supercell for four years
Royale Figures
Clash Royale generates highest monthly revenue for two years
The game has also seen a recent boost in downloads over the past few months
Super Hire
10 Supercell jobs to apply for this week
Job vacancies from several of Supercell’s offices
Winner Winner
Introducing the winners of the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2021
Celebrate the big wins and catch up with all the highlights
Here Comes The Boom
Update: Space Ape Games and Supercell collaborate for Boom Beach: Frontlines
Open to 15,000 players in North America and Europe
Star Power
Supercell's secret for growing Brawl Stars to a $1 billion success
"We hit our all-time daily active user record just a few months ago!"
Unforeseen Consequences
Why Gree may win the law but lose its Supercell patent war
Be careful what you wish for
Ua Expansion
Supercell lends Metacore $180 million to scale Merge Mansion
Mobile puzzle game aiming for the big league
Good Lord
Lords Mobile revenue surpasses $2 billion following battle pass introduction
Now doing +$80 million a month
Super Strategy
Master the Meta: Understanding Supercell’s new games and evolving strategy
"We’ll expand the Clash universe in ways you’ve never seen before"
Smarter Moves
With Clash expansions, Supercell is rewriting the mobile game playbook - again
Making sense of changing circumstances
Clash(ic)
Supercell soft-launches Clash Quest in Scandinavia
First of three Clash spinoff games in development
Clash Bang Wallop
Supercell announces trio of new Clash games - Clash Mini, Clash Quest and Clash Heroes
Three new Clash games from the maker of Clash of Clans
That's Just Super
Supercell saw great success in 2020, despite COVID-19 pandemic
"We, of course, are incredibly lucky to work in the games business"
Live And Kicking
How Supercell continues to grow multi-billion dollar hit Clash Royale five-years on
"There’s a reason that battle passes are so popular in the industry nowadays"
Job Royale
Supercell potentially set to overhaul Clash Royale as studio seeks new game lead
New year, new lead
Money Money Money
Brawl Stars shoots past $1 billion in lifetime revenue
Aided by its launch in China last year
Had Its Heyday
Supercell cancels new casual match-three puzzler Hay Day Pop
Servers remain online until February 1st, 2021
Team Work
Supercell backs new studio 2UP Games with $2.8 million investment
"It's a privilege to be supporting 2UP Games on their mission to bring players across the world together around co-op gaming"
Ex-cell-sior
Former Sega and Sumo Digital director James Back joins Supercell
Back previously acted as product director for over a year