GameDuell is a game developer located in Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany

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. The company develops games that are available on its own branded website, social networking sites such as Facebook

Facebook

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, and mobile on Android, WebOS and iOS.

History

GameDuell was founded in 2003 by Boris Wasmuth, Kai Bolik and Michael Kalkowski with branch offices in Asia and San Francisco, and has now more than 170 employees worldwide.

Figures

According to AppData, as of August 2011, GameDuell games on Facebook had over 3 million monthly active users. The company has so far developed 10 mobile applications across Android, WebOS and iOS. Additionally, the company has developed over 60 flash based games on their own tournament platform and has products available in 9 languages worldwide.

Funding

The Company received over $17 million (€11 million) in funding from Wellington Partners in an effort to accelerate its expansion into other European countries and the United States. This was in addition to the earlier funding from Holtzbrinck Ventures

Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

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 and Burda Digital Ventures

Hubert Burda Media

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in 2004.

Games

Among the company's most popular games are:

• Bubble Speed (available on GameDuell, Facebook, iOS, Android)
• Jungle Jewels (on GameDuell, Facebook, iOS, Android)
• Bubble Popp (on GameDuell and Facebook)
• Maya Pyramid (on GameDuell, Facebook, iOS, Android)
• Fluffy (on GameDuell, Facebook, iOS, Android)

External links

• Official GameDuell site

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