Digital Chocolate
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| Private | |
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | October 18, 2003 |
| Founder | Trip Hawkins |
| Headquarters | San Mateo, California, U.S. |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Marc Metis (President) Edmond Chui (Principal Architect/Server Engineering Manager) |
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Number of employees
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129 employees |
| Website | www |
Digital Chocolate, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher headquartered in San Mateo, California. It was founded in 2003 by Trip Hawkins, the founder of video game companies Electronic Arts and The 3DO Company. The company focuses on developing games for mobile phones, iOS, and Microsoft Windows, and makes some non-entertainment titles. Its marketing motto is Seize the minute.
This developer was officially stopped. It has sold its games to Rockyou, and its website was shut down.
Digital Chocolate was founded in 2003 by Trip Hawkins after the failure of The 3DO Company.
On August 15, 2011, Digital Chocolate agreed to acquire Sandlot Games, a leading casual game developer and publisher.
Digital Chocolate has operations in San Mateo, Seattle, St. Petersburg, Bangalore, and Mexicali.
In May 2012, Trip Hawkins stepped down as CEO to move to a "consulting and advisory relationship" with the company. The company also announced plans to lay off 180 employees.
Galaxy Life is their most successful title on Facebook to date, ranking at 284th bucket of MAU (Monthly Active Users) as of September 13, 2013. In 2013 Digital Chocolate's Barcelona studio was sold to Ubisoft with the Galaxy Life IP and the Helsinki studio was closed.
In April 2014, Digital Chocolate's four remaining Facebook games—Army Attack, Crazy Penguin Wars, Millionaire City, and Zombie Lane—were licensed to RockYou, along with the hiring of their developers to continue work on the games.
In 2009, the company's game Brick Breaker Revolution won an IGN award for Best Artistic Design.
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