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Bohemia Interactive a.s.

Type	Private
Industry	Computer and video games Interactive entertainment
Founded	1999
Founder	Marek Španěl
Headquarters	Prague, Czech Republic
Key people	Marek Španěl (CEO) Ondřej Španěl
Products	Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis ARMA series DayZ
Number of employees	250+
Divisions	Bohemia Interactive Simulations (previous)
Subsidiaries	Altar Games Black Element Software Centauri Production
Website	http://www.bistudio.com/

Bohemia Interactive is a video game development studio and publisher, based in Prague, Czech Republic. The company focuses on creating military simulation games such as Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis and the ARMA series. It was also famed for working on a game conversion of the DayZ mod created for ARMA 2.

Founded by Marek Španěl in 1999, the studio released its first game in 2001, a military shooter titled Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, which received critical acclaim and brought recognition for the studio. Following Operation Flashpoint was a series of downturns, such as porting the game to Xbox, which led to huge financial losses and the development of a sequel later abandoned by the publisher Codemasters. The studio fell into financial troubles until the United States Marine Corps employed the studio to create simulation games to train soldiers. A new division called Bohemia Interactive Simulations was created, and later spun off and become a standalone business entity. Following Codemasters' decision of not supporting the studio, Bohemia Interactive decided to develop a spiritual successor to Cold War Crisis titled ARMA: Armed Assault. It was both a critical and financial success, spawning a number of sequels. Smaller projects such as Take On Helicopters were also released.