Gameforge Acquires Occupa GmbH

Gameforge is again expanding its influence in the browser-games scene: on May 16, 2008, the company acquired Occupa GmbH, a development studio behind successful titles such as KnightsDivine, BattleKnight and WildGuns.

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Klaas Kersting, founder and CEO of Gameforge AG, explains: “We have worked extremely successfully with Occupa GmbH for four years. We have now decided to fully integrate the company, including all jobs, into our organisation. This will let us use the Occupa developers’ expertise even better and make future collaboration significantly easier.” Andre Potgeter, former Managing Director of Occupa GmbH, welcomes the merger: “By joining Gameforge AG, we can use the infrastructure of a large company to develop our games. Already, 750,000 users play our games. In future, we will be able to bring successful online games to market even more easily.”

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