Wanadoo Edition
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| S.A. | |
| Industry | Computer and video game industry |
| Founded | 1985 (Microïds) 1992 (Index+) 2000 (Wanadoo Edition) 2003 (MC2 France) |
| Founder | Emmanuel Olivier |
| Headquarters |
Montréal, Canada, Montrouge, France |
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Key people
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Elliot Grassiano (Microïds founder) |
| Owner | Anuman |
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Number of employees
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150+ (95 in Montréal) (as of February 2004) |
| Website | The official Microïds website |
MC2 France is a French software company that develops and publishes video games focusing on adventure games. It was formed in 2003 when Emmanuel Olivier merged Microïds and Wanadoo Edition. In late 2009 all of the licences associated with the company were purchased by Anuman Interactive, and currently the Microïds brand is used.
Microïds was founded in 1985 by Elliot Grassiano. For the first 10 years, Microïds was a development house, but in 1995 it expanded into publishing and distribution as well.
Microïds is well known for the development of the adventure games including Syberia, Syberia II, Post Mortem and its sequel Still Life. Other notable games that Microïds has produced include Far Gate and the Nicky Boum series of action games for the Commodore Amiga.
On 23 November 2009 Anuman Interactive announced that they were acquiring the mark of and all the associated licences of Microïds. The Microïds deal with MC2 was completed on 1 January 2010.
In 2003 Emmanuel Olivier took control of Microïds and Wanadoo Edition and merged them to form MC2 France.
On September 30, 2003 Wanadoo Edition became part of MC2 France, from this deal Wanadoo also became a 12% shareholder in Microïds. This move was a part of a deal with the French government for Microïds to emerge from bankruptcy protection.
On March 2005 Ubisoft acquired part of MC2-Microïds (Microïds Canada) and integrated it into Ubisoft's Montréal studios. In 2006 MC2 France acquired of a minority interest in the mobile games developer, Tetraedge; among Tetraedge's work, they have adapted Syberia for smartphones.
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