Miniclip

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Miniclip SA
Miniclip.svg
Screenshot
Type of site
Online games
Available inEnglish, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, Hindi, Japanese and Scouse.
Founded30 March 2001
Headquarters
Neuchâtel
,
Switzerland
OwnerTencent
Key peopleRobert Small, President
Jurgen Post, CEO
Alfreado Hugheseppi, James Keenan, Financial Managers
URLwww.miniclip.com
RegistrationOptional
Current statusActive

Miniclip is a Swiss free browser game website. Launched in 2001, it is the world's largest privately owned online gaming website.[1] It was started in 2001 by Robert Small and Tihan Presbie l on a budget of £40,000[2] and quickly grew. As of 2008, the company has been valued at over £275 million, having been profitable for six of its first seven years, with turnovers exceeding £20 million from 2006–2008 alone.[2]

In 2015, Tencent acquired majority stakes of Miniclip.[3]

In December 2016, Miniclip crossed 1 billion downloads across its mobile games on iOS, Android and Windows devices, with more than 350 million downloads in the past 12 months.[4]

Mobile games[]

Miniclip has many mobile games that are available for iOS, Android, Symbian and Windows Phone, such as 8 Ball Pool, Golf Battle, Gravity Guy, Bloons Tower Defense, Plague Inc. for android, Berry Rush, Agar.io, Diep.io, Mini Militia, Ludo Party, among many other app games.

Xbox games for Windows 8[]

In September 2012, Microsoft announced on Windows team blog dated 31 August 2012 (see also List of Xbox games on Windows) that Miniclip games will be able to distribute their games on the Xbox division of Windows 8. Miniclip games that are supported by Xbox for Windows 8 include Gravity Guy, iStunt 2, and Monster Island. Gravity Guy was released on Windows Store on 29 November 2010.

In April 2013, most of the Miniclip games for Windows 8 and Windows Phone were distributed for free for one year.

Xbox One, PC, and PS4[]

On 14 February 2017, Miniclip released their first game which can be played on Xbox One, PC, and PlayStation 4, called MX Nitro.[5]

Malicious software issues[]

On 1 September 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.[6]

In 2006, several security firms reported that some Miniclip users had installed a "miniclipgameloader.dll" which contained the hostile code identified as "Trojan DownLoader 3069.”[7] In the same year, another download related to Miniclip installed "High Risk" malware called "Trojan-Downloader.CR64Loader.”[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Weber, Rachel. "From MiniClip to Mega Brand". Game Industry Biz. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "FT.com - Game Plan Keeps It Simple". Archived from the original on 3 June 2009.
  3. ^ "China's Tencent moves into Europe with investment in mobile and online game publisher Miniclip (exclusive)". VentureBeat. 18 February 2015.
  4. ^ "Miniclip games hit 1B downloads - Mobile World Live". Mobile World Live. 8 December 2016.
  5. ^ "MX Nitro - OUT NOW on PS4, Xbox One & PC - The Miniclip Blog". 14 February 2027. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ "Vulnerability Note VU#649289, Retro64 / Miniclip CR64Loader ActiveX control buffer overflow". United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, Department of Homeland Security. 1 September 2006.
  7. ^ "Trojan.DownLoader.3069 / MINICLIPGAMELOADER.DLL". Prevx. 15 July 2005. Archived from the original on 15 December 2007.
  8. ^ "Threat Details - Trojan-Downloader.CR64Loader". Sunbelt Software. 14 September 2006. Archived from the original on 16 December 2007.

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