| Founded | 1993 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
| Industry | Computer and video game industry |
| Employees | 300+ |
| Website | English version of Akella homepage |
Akella is a Russian software company specializing in the development, publishing and distribution of computer games and multimedia products. The founders of Akella met in 1993 and decided to start a company together, and in 1995 formed Akella. The company comprises five in-house development teams, a publishing house, a distribution center, a localization team and a quality assurance department; in total, some 300 people are employed by Akella.
The company is named after a Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book character, Akela the wolf, and its logo is a wolf.
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Games
Completed
Akella develop games for Microsoft Windows, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Wii platforms, such as:
- Sea Dogs (released in 2000), a pirate-adventuring action RPG (Bethesda Softworks/UbiSoft/1C)
- Age of Sail II (released in 2001), a real-time naval combat simulation (Take 2/Talonsoft/1C)
- Privateers Bounty (released in 2002), another premium real-time naval combat simulation (Take 2/Global Star Software/1C)
- Pirates of the Caribbean (Originally known as Sea Dogs II) (released in July, 2003), the pirating adventure for PC and Xbox platforms, developed under license for the Disney adventure movie of the same name (Bethesda Softworks/UbiSoft/1C)
- Sea Dogs III (2005) (1C)
- Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales
- Age of Pirates: Captain Blood
- Postal 2: Штопор Жжот Russian Postal 2 add-on
- Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships Released in Q1 2009
- PT Boats: Knights of the Sea Released in Q1 2009
- Euro Truck Simulator Released August 29, 2008 and the Gold Edition was released this year on April 15, 2009
In development
- A Stroke of Fate, to be released in 2009. [1]
- Disciples III (Windows video game). Sequel to Disciples: Sacred Lands and Disciples II: Dark Prophecy. To be released in 2009.
- Dead Mountaineer's Hotel. Based on the eponymous Russian science fiction detective novel from 1970. To be released for North America and Western Europe 2008.
- Postal III, to be released in 2010 [2].
- 2025: Battle for Fatherland
- Jagged Alliance 3, to be released in the first quarter of 2010. [3]
- Fragoria.
- Heavy Duty, to be released forth quarter of 2009.
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