Kongregate
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Type of site
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Online gaming website (Social Network) |
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| Owner | GameStop |
| Revenue | Advertising In game currency ("Kreds") Corporate sponsorship Premium memberships(Kong+) |
| Website | Kongregate.com |
| Alexa rank |
 Global Rank 1,558(July 2016[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Free, not required (however, some features are disabled); Paid membership optional |
| Launched | October 10, 2006 |
Kongregate is a mobile game publisher and web gaming portal owned by Gamestop Corporation. Kongregate’s mobile games have been downloaded tens of millions of times and have hundreds of millions of gameplays. Kongregate's web portal features over 120,000 free games played by tens of millions of players per month.
The mobile portfolio consists of 26 games across various genres, with a focus on role-playing and collectible card games.
On the web portal, users can upload Adobe Flash, HTML 5/JavaScript, Shockwave, Java or Unity games. Users can rate the games and search games by its user rating. It features an API that Flash, Unity, and JavaScript developers can integrate into their games which allows users to submit high scores and earn achievement badges. Badges and local score submissions are available only on games whose developers choose to use the Kongregate API. Players can earn badges, challenge friends, and collect Kongpanions, as well as participate in forums, chat rooms, and guilds.
Kongregate was released on October 10, 2006 by siblings Emily and Jim Greer into an alpha testing phase, which lasted until December 2006. During this time, game developers and players tested the site's interface and functionality. In December of the same year, the site was formally opened to the public. The site formally entered the beta testing phase on March 22, 2007. As of July 2008, Kongregate had raised around $9 million in capital from investments by Reid Hoffman, Jeff Clavier, Jeff Bezos, and Greylock Partners.
On July 23, 2010, GameStop announced an agreement to acquire Kongregate. Because of Gamestop's purchase of Kongregate, developers who work through Kongregate can have their content promoted to people who shop at a GameStop store. Kongregate also provides a way for creators of games on Facebook to expand their potential audience.
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