Akella
Akella was a Russian software company specialising in the development, publishing and distribution of video games and multimedia products. The founders met in 1993 and decided to start a company together and in 1995 formed Akella. The company comprised five in-house development teams, a publishing house, a distribution center, a localisation team and a quality assurance department; in total, 250 people were employed by Akella.
Akella
- Name
- Akella
- Founded
- 1993
- Headquarters
- Moscow
- Activity
- video game industry
- Products
- software
- Dissolved
- 2012
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Akella was a Russian software company specialising in the development, publishing and distribution of video games and multimedia products. The founders met in 1993 and decided to start a company together and in 1995 formed Akella. The company comprised five in-house development teams, a publishing house, a distribution center, a localisation team and a quality assurance department; in total, 250 people were employed by Akella.
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Overview
Overview
There were several sub-brands owned by Akella, such as Macho Studios, that developed erotic games and published Japanese hentai dating sims. The company is named after a Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book character, Akela the wolf, and its logo is a wolf.
It is associated with Russia. The record gives 1993 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Activity is recorded as ending in 2012. Its recorded seat is Moscow. The recorded field of activity is video game industry. Recorded products are software.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Akella • Hq Location — Moscow, Russia • Industry — Video games • Num Employees — 250 • Num Employees Year — 2012 • Divisions — Akella Online • Website — akella.com • Defunct — 2012 • Fate — Bankruptcy, Liquidated
Defunct status
Defunct status
During 2012, the company was amid multiple lawsuits totalling ₽200,000,000 (roughly $6,000,000) which, combined with the significant developmental difficulties and commercial failings of Postal III, pushed Akella to the verge of bankruptcy. As a result, the company, while technically still existing, has effectively ceased operations since 2012.
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• Year — Title — Platform(s) — Developer(s) — Publisher(s) • 1997 — Postal — Windows — Running with Scissors — Ripcord Games, Loki Entertainment, Running with Scissors, Akella (in Russia) • 1998 — Liquidator — MS-DOS — Partizan Software — Akella • 2000 — Sea Dogs — Windows — Akella — Bethesda Softworks • 2001 — Age of Sail II — Windows — Akella — Bethesda Softworks • 2002 — Privateers Bounty: Age of Sail II — Windows — Akella — 1C Company • 2003 — Bomber Fun — Windows — LightBrain — Akella (in Russia) • Postal 2 — Running with Scissors — Whiptail Interactive, Running with Scissors, Akella (in Russia) • Postal 2: Share the Pain • Pirates of the Caribbean — Akella — Bethesda Softworks and 1C Company • Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend — Running with Scissors — Whiptail Interactive, Running with Scissors, Akella (in Russia) • 2004 — Sabotain: Break the Rules — Windows — Avalon Style Entertainment — Akella • Red Skies Over Europe — Interactive Vision — Akella • 2005 — Metalheart: Replicants Rampage — Windows — Numlock Software — DreamCatcher and Akella • Postal 2: Corkscrew Rules! — Avalon Style Entertainment — Akella • 2006 — Evil Days of Luckless John — Windows — Centauri Production — CINEMAX, Akella • Tanita: Plasticine Dream — Trickster Games — Akella • Mad Tracks — Load inc. — Akella (in Russia) • Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales — Akella — 1C Company • Sakura Wars — Sega, Red Entertainment — Akella (in Russia) • 2007 — Tarr Chronicles: Sign of Ghosts — Windows — Quazar Studio — Akella • Galactic Assault: Prisoner of Power — Wargaming — Akella • Inhabited Island: Prisoner of Power — Orion — Akella • Hard to Be a God — Burut CT — Nobilis, Akella • Swashbucklers: Blue vs. Grey — Akella — 1C Company • Empire Above All — Icehill — Akella • Inhabited Island: The Earthling — Step Creative Group — Akella • Dead Mountaineer's Hotel — Electronic Paradise — Akella • 2008 — Sakura Wars 2 — Windows — Sega, Red Entertainment — Akella • 2009 — A Stroke of Fate: Operation Valkyrie — SPLine — Akella • A Stroke of Fate: Operation Bunker — SPLine — Akella • Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships — Akella — Playlogic • PT Boats: Knights of the Sea — Akella — Battlefront.com and Akella • 2010 — Disciples III: Renaissance — Windows —.dat [ru] — Akella (CIS), Kalypso Media (EU, NA) • PT Boats: South Gambit — Akella — Battlefront.com, Akella • 2011 — Disciples III: Resurrection — Windows —.dat [ru] — Akella (CIS), Kalypso Media (EU, NA) • Postal III — Trashmasters, Running with Scissors — Akella • 2012 — Disciples III: Reincarnation — Windows — hex Studio [ru] — Akella (CIS), Kalypso Media (EU, NA) • Sea Dogs: To Each His Own — BlackMark Studio — Akella
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