Astrum Online Entertainment
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| Type of business | Holding |
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web portal |
| Available in | Russian |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
| Key people | Igor Matsanuyk (president), Vladimir Nikolsky (general director), Boris Gertsovskiy (Vice President), Alisa Chumachenko (vice president of marketing and advertisement), Vsevolod Leonov (vice president of business development), Anatoly Ropotov (executive vice president of products) |
| Industry | Development, publishing, localization and operating MMO games |
| Products | Developed Games: Allods Online, Legend: Legacy of the Dragons, Time Zero, Three Kingdoms, Sphere, Heroes: Resurrection, Territory, Cosmics: Galactic Wars, BloodyWorld, Love City, Desolation: Riders of Merion, Sphere: Rebirth, Destiny, Keepers of the Power, Faor, Sphere 2: Arena, Funny War, Dom 3, Evil Tale; Localized and published games: Perfect World, Granado Espada, Tales of Pirates, The Lord of the Rings Online, ParaPa: City of Dance, Monato. World of Dreams, Rapplez |
| Website | http://astrumonline.ru/eng/ |
| Launched | 2007 |
| Current status | active |
Astrum Online Entertainment is a Russian holding company which operates in the online entertainment market of Eastern Europe. Founded in the beginning of December 2007, it incorporated four companies, which specialize in development, publishing and operating online games: Nival Online, IT Territory, Time Zero, and Nikita Online. In summer 2008 the fifth company, the developer of online games called "DJ Games", joined in.
The move will allow the participants to formalize a united strategy in regards to their activities and also utilize their combined experience and infrastructure in order to perfect their businesses.
According to the experts, the 2008 revenues of Astrum Online were estimated at $50 million USD.
Astrum Online currently operates more than 30 MMO games, including such popular titles as "Legend: Legacy of the Dragons", "Sphere", "Territory", "Three Kingdoms", and "Perfect World".
Astrum Online was founded in December' 2007. Joint forces of the companies let to launch several major gaming projects in Russia and abroad and to support dynamic domestic growth of existing titles in 2008.
In the early spring of 2008 two companies of the holding – Nival Online and IT Territory – brought into life localized Russian versions of the MMORPG "Tales of Pirates" and online MMO game "Love City" accordingly. The second one is an online social game with some role-playing elements, top-notch graphics and animation. Love City appeared to be so original that it was subsequently localized in Japan.
During spring 2008 the Astrum Online Europe GmbH was founded in Hamburg. The games consultant Robert Johnsson was appointed CEO to head this task. The current CEO is Alexander Goldybin.
May 2008 – Nival Online started open beta testing for the localized Russian versions of the Korean fantasy online game "Granado Espada: Scions of Fate" and "Perfect World" developed by Beijing Perfect World.
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