Miniclip
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Screenshot of the Miniclip homepage in June 2016
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Type of site
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Online games |
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| Available in | English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Hindi, Romanian, Hungarian, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, and Japanese |
| Founded | March 30, 2001 |
| Headquarters | Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
| Key people | Robert Small: CEO |
| Slogan(s) | "Play Games" (Former slogans: "Play Online Games", "Play Free Online Games", "Free Games and Shows") |
| Website | www.miniclip.com |
| Alexa rank |
 1,385 (November 2016[update]) |
| Registration | Optional |
| Current status | Active |
Miniclip is a free online games website. It was launched in 2001 and is known for having a large and varied collection of games. It is the world's largest privately owned online gaming website. It was started in 2001 by Robert Small and Tihan Presbie (who is no longer with the company) on a budget of £40,000 and quickly grew. As of 2008[update], the company has been valued at over £900 million, having been profitable for six of its first seven years, with turnovers exceeding £20 million from 2006–2008 alone.
Miniclip has a social system with unregistered "game players" who play games with each other and play in custom friend leagues together.
Players have their own game player pages with their games, statistics, awards, friends and applications.
Miniclip offers game developers a number of API services that allow them to integrate Miniclip branded features into their games, for example these allow third party developers to create games that can contribute high scores to a user's high score ranking on the Players service.
In 2009, Miniclip made Wii-playable games on their website. It can be accessed through the Wii Internet Channel.
Several security firms reported in 2006 that some Miniclip users had installed a "miniclipgameloader.dll" which contains the hostile code identified as "Trojan DownLoader 3069". Removal tools are available. Reports in 2006 from the same security vendors show the same file as not containing hostile code. In 2006, the security firm Sunbelt Software reported that Miniclip installed "High Risk" malware called "Trojan-Downloader.CR64Loader". On September 1, 2005, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued an advisory concerning Miniclip:
The Retro64 / Miniclip CR64 Loader ActiveX control contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute an arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.... Although the ActiveX control is no longer in use by either retro64.com or miniclip.com, any system that has used certain pages of these web sites in the past (prior to September, 2005) may be vulnerable.
Miniclip also has many mobile games that are available for iOS, Android, Symbian and Windows Phone, such as 8 Ball Pool, Gravity Guy, Bloons Tower Defense , Plague Inc., Berry Rush, Agar.io, Diep.io, Slither.io, Thunderbirds Are GO!, Soccer Stars, Flip Diving, Basketball Stars, and Archery King.
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