eRepublik Labs pushes for continuous expansion

eRepublik Labs acquires Alien Flow team to strengthen its senior management and accelerate its expansion into mobile games for core players.

The creator of the hit game world eRepublik.com pushes for continuous expansion with new products on the horizon for 2013.

Madrid, September 13th, 2012 – eRepublik Labs is pleased to anounce the acquisition of the Alien Flow team, a proven team of mobile gaming developers based in Spain. The move is in line with eRepublik Labs' effort to further boost its advance in the online strategy games market for and expand its focus on core gamers to mobile platforms.

Alexis Bonte, CEO and co-founder of eRepublik Labs, said: "We see mobile games gaining in depth and complexity and we see ourselves as extremely well positioned to take advantage of our European and growing global leadership in browser based multiplayer immersive gaming worlds for true strategy gamers and mix it with Alien Flow's team strength in mobile platforms. We foresee our company to be among the first in Europe to capitalize on the current trend of core gamers moving towards mobile platforms."

The Alien Flow team has in-depth experience in developing mobile games and applications, focusing on creating addictive and complex content for iOS and Android devices.

Chris Head, CEO of Alien Flow said: "We are delighted to join a company that consistently showed solid growth and creativity. We are looking forward to boost eRepublik Labs' efforts to add new strategy games to their portfolio, in the wake of their success on browser platforms with their eRepublik.com strategy game world"

eRepublik Labs was founded in 2007. The company is one of the top 25 European start ups according to TechCrunch. eRepublik Labs is inventing game worlds, that leverage the power of communities and the Web.

erepublik.com eRepublik Labs acquires Alien Flow team to strengthen its senior management and accelerate its expansion into mobile games for core players.

eRepublik.com, its first massive online social strategy game, is set in a mirror version of the real world and launched in November 2007. eRepublik.com was a prize winner in the LeWeb3 start-up competition in 2007 as well as the TechCrunch FOWA competition in 2008 and was recognized by AlwaysOn has one of the top 100 Private companies in the world in 2009. eRepublik was also a Webby Awards nominee in 2009 and 2010. Since its launch, over 3,5 million people have created an eRepublik citizen and the game world now has an active community of over 230.000 citizens, of which a high proportion play daily.

Chris Head has over 15 years of experience within the telecommunications and games industries. He starts today as eRepublik Labs new COO, where his extensive experience with large game studios will be key to help the 50 person strong company grow into the leading European provider for the growing tribe of core gamers that are looking for an accessible, deep and meaningful strategy gaming experience online and on mobile .

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