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Microsoft Solitaire Collection
''Microsoft Solitaire Collection'' is a video game developed by Smoking Gun Interactive, Microsoft Casual Games and Arkadium and published by Microsoft Studios for Microsoft Windows. It combines the Solitaire, FreeCell and Spider Solitaire titles that were included with previous versions of Windows. It also introduces Pyramid and TriPeaks to Windows for the first time, as well as new daily challenges and themes. (An older version of Pyramid was previously bundled in ''Microsoft Entertainment Pack 2'' under the name "Tut's Tomb", and an older version of TriPeaks was previously bundled in ''Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3''; both made the cut for ''Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack''.) Unlike the games included in Windows 7 and earlier versions, ''Microsoft Solitaire Collection'' is freemium adware with Xbox Live integration. The app's hub-based design was originally inspired by the design for Windows 8's Start screen in 2012. At the time, the developers considered the game a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkadium
Arkadium is a founder-led creator of casual games for adults. Its games can be found on its own owned-and-operated site, Arkadium.com, as well as across a network of digital publishers including USA Today and the ''Washington Post''. The company is headquartered in New York City with an additional office in Krasnodar, Russia. History Husband-and-wife team Kenny Rosenblatt and Jessica Rovello founded Arkadium in 2001, inspired by a game of Ms. Pac-Man. Arkadium developed the Microsoft Solitaire Collection in 2011 as well as the modern iteration of Minesweeper. In 2014, after the Russian annexation of the Crimea, the US put sanctions on companies operating there. Arkadium had a 100-person team in Crimea, which was reduced to 50 and relocated from that region. In January 2017, the company announced it signed 300 new publishers in 2016 and saw record growth, and in 2019 announced a partnership with Sportradar to make it easy to bet on sports trivia questions to make web-based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
