Akella
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Akella is a Russia
n software company specializing in the development
, publishing
and distribution of computer games
and multimedia products. The founders of Akella met in 1993 and decided to start a company together, and in 1995 formed Akella. The company comprises five in-house development teams, a publishing house, a distribution center, a localization team and a quality assurance department; in total, some 300 people are employed by Akella.
The company is named after a Rudyard Kipling
's Jungle Book character, Akela the wolf
, and its logo is a wolf.
, Xbox
, PlayStation 2
and Wii
platforms, such as:
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n software company specializing in the development
Video game developer
A video game developer is a software developer that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.Most developers also...
, publishing
Video game publisher
A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer....
and distribution of computer games
Computer Games
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and multimedia products. The founders of Akella met in 1993 and decided to start a company together, and in 1995 formed Akella. The company comprises five in-house development teams, a publishing house, a distribution center, a localization team and a quality assurance department; in total, some 300 people are employed by Akella.
The company is named after a Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...
's Jungle Book character, Akela the wolf
Akela (Jungle Book)
Akela is a character in Rudyard Kipling's stories, The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. He is the leader of the Seeonee pack of Indian wolves and presides over the pack's council meetings...
, and its logo is a wolf.
Completed
Akella develop games for Microsoft WindowsMicrosoft Windows
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, Xbox
Xbox
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, PlayStation 2
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...
and Wii
Wii
The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...
platforms, such as:
- Sea Dogs (released in 2000), a pirate-adventuring action RPG (Bethesda SoftworksBethesda SoftworksBethesda Softworks, LLC, is an American video game company. A subsidiary of ZeniMax Media, the company was originally based in Bethesda, Maryland and eventually moved to their current location in Rockville, Maryland...
/UbiSoftUbisoftUbisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....
/1C) - Age of Sail IIAge of Sail IIAge of Sail II is the sequel to Age of Sail. It has similar historically accurate game play, and is enhanced with 3D graphics and a free-floating camera. Unlike the original Age of Sail, the sequel's maps are embellished with strategic landmasses. Age of Sail II accurately portrays the mighty...
(released in 2001), a real-time naval combat simulation (Take 2/TalonsoftTalonSoftTalonSoft was a Baltimore, Maryland-based computer game developer founded in 1995 by Jim Rose and John Davidson. The company specialized in wargames; many of its releases were acclaimed within the wargaming community....
/1C) - The Mystery of the DruidsThe Mystery of the DruidsThe Mystery of the Druids is a single-player adventure video game developed by House of Tales Entertainment and published by cdv Software Entertainment. The game was released on September 14, 2001 for Microsoft Windows....
(released in 2001), an adventure mystery game (Dtp entertainmentDtp entertainmentdtp entertainment AG is a German video and computer game publisher, founded in 1995 by Thomas Baur. The headquarters are located in Hamburg and dtp today has more than 180 employees. It is one of Germany's leading game publishers. dtp is known for having published a high number of games which were...
/Focus/Akella/CDV) - Privateers Bounty (released in 2002), another premium real-time naval combat simulation (Take 2/Global Star Software/1C)
- Pirates of the CaribbeanPirates of the Caribbean (video game)Pirates of the Caribbean is a 2003 computer game for Windows and Xbox, developed by Akella and published by Bethesda Softworks. The Xbox version was the first U.S. console game developed in Russia...
(Originally known as Sea Dogs II) (released in July, 2003), the pirating adventure for PC and Xbox platforms, developed under license for the DisneyThe Walt Disney CompanyThe Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
adventure movie of the same name (Bethesda Softworks/UbiSoft/1C) - Space TanksSpace TanksSpace Tanks – Gladiatoren im All is an artillery strategy game developed by the German based YawThrust Software Labs. and published by Pepper Games in Summer 2003. Re-Released in by Alten8, the game pits players against one another or against the computer, utilising tanks in a futuristic setting...
(2003), Artillery Tanks on tiny planets - Sea Dogs III (2005) (1C)
- RequitalRequitalRequital is a 2006 action RPG developed by Akella and Primal Software and released by Excalibur Publishing on the Microsoft Windows platform.-Story:...
(2006), action RPG - H-Craft ChampionshipH-Craft ChampionshipH-Craft Championship is a science fiction racing game developed by independent game studio Irrgheist. A Russian version of the game was later released by Akella...
, a science fictionScience fictionScience fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
racingRacingA sport race is a competition of speed, against an objective criterion, usually a clock or to a specific point. The competitors in a race try to complete a given task in the shortest amount of time...
game (released on July 19, 2007) - Age of Pirates: Caribbean TalesAge of Pirates: Caribbean TalesAge of Pirates: Caribbean Tales, known in Russia as Corsairs III , is a computer game developed by Akella. Due to legal issues, it does not bear the name of the developers' previous pirate games Sea Dogs and Pirates of the Caribbean...
- Age of Pirates: Captain BloodAge of Pirates: Captain BloodCaptain Blood , known in Russia as Приключения капитана Блада , is an action-adventure game based on the novels by Rafael Sabatini about the titular Captain Blood...
- Postal 2: Штопор Жжот Russian Postal 2 add-on
- Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned ShipsAge of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned ShipsAge of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships is a computer game developed by Akella, which was released on May 26, 2009. It is the sequel to Sea Dogs , Pirates of the Caribbean , and Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales...
Released in Q1 2009 - PT Boats: Knights of the Sea Released in Q1 2009
- Euro Truck SimulatorEuro Truck SimulatorEuro Truck Simulator is a truck simulation game created by SCS Software, using OpenGL, set in continental Europe. The player can drive across a depiction of Europe, visiting its cities, picking up a variety of cargos, and delivering them.- Gameplay :...
Released August 29, 2008 and the Gold Edition was released on April 15, 2009 - Disciples III (Windows video game). Sequel to Disciples: Sacred LandsDisciples: Sacred LandsDisciples: Sacred Lands is a turn-based PC strategy game published by Strategy First in 1999. Set in a fantasy world known as the Sacred Lands, it was a battle for dominance between four races of the world of Nevendaar: The Empire , the Mountain Clans the Legions of the Damned , and the Undead...
and Disciples II: Dark ProphecyDisciples II: Dark ProphecyDisciples II: Dark Prophecy is a PC game by Strategy First that was released on January 24, 2002. The game is the sequel to the 1999 game Disciples: Sacred Lands, and has become significantly more successful in terms of both sales and popularity than its predecessor...
.
In development
- A Stroke of Fate, to be released in 2009.
- Dead Mountaineer's Hotel. Based on the eponymous Russian science fiction detective novelDead Mountaineer's HotelDead Mountaineer's Hotel is a 1970 science fiction detective novel written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky...
from 1970. To be released for North America and Western Europe 2008. - Postal III, to be released in 2011.
- 2025: Battle for Fatherland
- FragoriaFragoriaFragoria is a browser-based MMORPG developed by RUSOFTWARE Co and published in multiple languages. It allows players to play a variety of classes and to explore a gameworld using either WASD or click-to-move navigation.-Publishing Companies:...
. - Heavy Duty, to be released forth quarter of 2009.
External links
- English version of Akella homepage
- Akella entry at MobyGamesMobyGames-Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...
- Interview with team Akella