Kwalee
Kwalee Ltd. is a British video game developer and publisher. The company was founded in May 2011 by David Darling, co-founder and former CEO of Codemasters who is hailed as one of the 'founding fathers' of the UK games industry. The company publishes games on mobile, PC and console platforms. It is known for its hypercasual games for iOS and Android devices, with a large internal development studio helping the company to more than 700 million game downloads in total. Based in Leamington Spa in the county of Warwickshire, Kwalee is one of the several companies that make up the Leamington Spa video gaming cluster.
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Founder | David Darling |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Subsidiaries | Tictales |
| Website | kwalee |
As of 2022, the company also has offices in Bangalore, Beijing and Portugal.
Kwalee employs over 180 technical, marketing, publishing and administrative staff in its offices, including Andrew Graham (designer and programmer of Micro Machines) and COO Jason Falcus (programmer of NBA Jam). In 2020, the company began to publish PC and console games with Max Everingham joining from Team17 to head up a new division. TENS! and Eternal Hope were the first PC and console game releases from Kwalee, with the one-hit-kill fighting game Die by the Blade set to launch in 2023, shifting away from its initial plan to release the game in November 2022.