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| Screenshot File:Miniclip screenshot.pngScreenshot of the Miniclip homepage as of August 2010 | |
| Type of site | Online games |
|---|---|
| Available in | English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese Brazilian, Italian, Polish, Khmer, Romanian, Hungarian, Korean, Chinese,Turkish, and Japanese |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
| Key people | Robert Small: CEO Tihan Presbie: President |
| URL | www.miniclip.com |
| Registration | Optional |
| Current status | Active |
Miniclip is a popular website famed for its browser-based casual and exciting games. It was started in 2001 by Robert Small and Tihan Presbie on a budget of £40,000 and quickly grew to become a leader in its respective market. As of 2008, the company has been valued at over £200 million, having been profitable for six of its seven years, with turnovers exceeding £20 million in the past two years. As well as publishing exclusive games, the website also provides more widely known titles such as Clone Wars Adventures, Club Penguin, Free Realms, RuneScape, and Webosaurs.
Popular games
Disney's Club Penguin has been on Miniclip since 2006. It is a massively multiplayer online role-play game involving a virtual world containing a range of online games and activities, developed by Club Penguin Entertainment (formerly New Horizon Interactive now owned by the Walt Disney Company). Using cartoon penguins as avatars, players waddle around, chat, play minigames and participate in other activities with one another in a snow-covered virtual world.
Dofus is a Flash based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Ankama Games, a French computer game manufacturer. It is primarily a pay-to-play game, though it still offers a limited amount of free content. Its success has led to the marketing of spin-off products, such as books, art and comics. It has also led to the development of two continuations: Dofus Arena, released at the beginning of 2006, which is an alternative "tournament" version of Doofus; and Wakfu, a continuation of Doofus, which is currently in the process of beta testing. The game has attracted over ten million players worldwide and is especially well-known in France.
Fragger is one of Miniclip's biggest most profitable games because of the hugely successful iOS version with hundreds of levels.
On the Run was originally launched with the exclusive online beta on Miniclip. It is a Massively Multiplayer Online Game Adventure game developed by Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) set in a whimsical, family-friendly, fantasy-themed world for the PC. The game was released on April 29, 2009 for the PC.
Habbo Hotel was added to Miniclip in the fall of 2010.
RuneScape is a Java based massively multiplayer online role playing game developed by Jagex that has been available through Miniclip since 2004.
Spineworld was a free to play virtual world that was for a time the number one game on Miniclip.com. It included adventures and places for users to visit. Users could customize their avatar, have their own room and have options to upgrade by paying for digital goods. It was renamed to Migo Land and was only free to play for a trial period of 7 days. After this period the user had to become a member to play.
Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is a massively multiplayer online game developed by Three Rings Design. The player takes the role of a pirate, adventuring on the high seas and pillaging money from roaming enemy ships (human or computer-controlled). The mechanics of Puzzle Pirates are driven by puzzles. For example, to effectively sail a ship, crewmates must play puzzles representing work at the sails for speed, pumping bilge water to remove it from the ship, and carpentry to fix any damage the ship may take. Puzzle Pirates is open-ended and community-driven. Over time, pirates can join a crew, progress in rank within that crew, buy and run sailing vessels and "shoppes", and perhaps even become captain of their own pirate crew, royalty within a flag (an alliance of crews), or governor of an island. Islands are governed and shoppes are managed exclusively by players. From time to time, players are also called upon to help expand the game, whether it be new puzzles (developed on Game Gardens), island objects to be used on new oceans (servers), or artwork used for a variety of purposes in-game. deca jump is a really popular game too and so is 8 ball multiplayer archivedate=2007-12-16 | url=http://research.sunbelt-software.com/threatdisplay.aspx?name=Trojan-Downloader.CR64Loader&threatid=39303 | publisher=Sunbelt Software | title=Threat Details - Trojan-Downloader.CR64Loader | date=September 14, 2006 }}</ref> On September 1, 2006, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued an advisory concerning Miniclip:
The Retro64 / Miniclip CR64 Loader ActiveX control contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute an arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.... Although the ActiveX control is no longer in use by either retro64.com or miniclip.com, any system that has used certain pages of these web sites in the past (prior to September, 2006) may be vulnerable.
References
- "Miniclip.com - Site Information from Alexa". Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- "FT.com - Game Plan Keeps It Simple".
- "FT.com - Game Plan Keeps It Simple".
- "Vulnerability Note VU#649289, Retro64 / Miniclip CR64Loader ActiveX control buffer overflow". United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, Department of Homeland Security. 2006-09-01.
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