Akella was founded in 1993 by group of purposeful and professional people. Eventually Akella has become a PC software developing and publishing company. We've chosen the Video Gaming Industry as the main directon of our activity.
For the following 12 years, Akella has continued to grow rapidly and has expanded from a small team of a dozen employees to a multidirectional company with more than 170 employees and respectable high management. Now Akella keeps the leading position in a rapidly growing Russian and CIS gaming industry.
Akella is a developer of high-quality gaming projects, educational titles and kids products.
We've got experienced in-house development studios and co-operate with several development teams in Russia and Europe. We often collaborate with respectable producers based outside of the CIS in order to bring worldwide perspectives to our products. We've released a number of projects including worldwide famous games: 'Sea Dogs' (worldwide publisher - Bethesda Softworks); ''Age of Sail II' (worldwide publisher - Take 2 Interactive); 'Pirates of the Caribbean' (worldwide publisher - Bethesda Softworks), and others.
Since 2002 Akella has been developing multiplatform projects for PC, Xbox, and for Playstation 2 since 2003. Console game development is at present the strategic direction of our activity.
The headliners of our current developing line-up are: naval simulator ''PT boats: Knights of The Sea' (PC), RPG/pirate-sim ''Age of Pirates' (PC), and 2 action/RPG projects ''Captain Blood' (PC, XBox) and ''Swashbucklers: Blue & Grey' (PC, PS2) Akella's developing studios have successfully performed a number of outsourcing orders. We are also going to develop the outsourcing direction.
Akella is a successful publisher of wide range of multimedia products.
Thanks to good partnership with international publishers and developers, we have released a wide range of successful and interesting gaming products in former USSR. Our lineup is over 300 SKUs with such high quality titles like: ''Painkiller', ''Prince of Persia: Warrior Within', ''Postal 2', ''Codename: Panzers', ''Everquest 2', ''Cold Fear'and others. The sales volumes of top-projects are estimated in hundreds of thousands.
Akella was the first company to publish the official localized game product in Russia. Our localization department has received numerous awards at GDC Moscow and recognized in leading gaming publications in Russia as the best localization company in the country.
Akella uses highly effective software and legal tools to combat computer games piracy.
Akella takes a stand of leading CIS Distributor
We've developed a wide distribution network, and set up close co-operation with the regional dealers.
Our regional partners are highly involved in complex PR and Marketing campaigns devoted to the headline projects.
Akella offers a wide line-up of high-quality games in various genres as well as educational and kids products throughout the year.
Akella pays high attention to PR and Marketing directions.
Akella's strong PR and marketing department is centre piece of our publishing policy. The mass advertising and creative PR-approach are our key strengths.
Original PR campaigns
Various PR-actions and presentation events
Attendance at Exhibitions and Trade Shows
Co-marketing programms
Strong support of internet community
Support of pro-gaming community
Strong merchandising direction
Akella continues to build itself as a powerful independent member of Video Gaming Market and aspires to be reliable and interesting partner for Russian and international Companies.
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