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Sulake
Sulake Oy () is a Finnish video game company primarily known for the creation and development of ''Habbo'' and ''Hotel Hideaway'' games. Sulake’s headquarters are in Helsinki, with design and marketing operations based in London and a user care center located in Madrid. History In its early days, Sulake developed and experimented with an open source Java based GNU called FUSE Light, an alternative to Macromedia's Shockwave. The key difference between the two technologies was that FUSE Light was designed to run on any operating system, while Shockwave was limited to just macOS and Microsoft Windows. This technology was first demonstrated on Sulake's Mobiles Disco, but it soon came to use on the beta versions of ''Habbo''. In March 2011, Sulake reported that revenue was up more than 20 percent over 2009, resulting in sales of €56.2 million ($78.7 million). Sulake's EBITDA in 2010 totaled €5.4 million ($7.6 million, 9.5 percent of revenue) and thus significantly impr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Bobba Bar
''Habbo'', also called ''Habbo Hotel'', is a virtual world and massively multiplayer online game. It is owned and operated by Sulake. Founded in 2000, ''Habbo'' has expanded to nine online communities (or "hotels"), with users from more than 150 countries. , 316 million Avatar (computing), avatars have been registered in the game. The website is divided into three clients, ''Habbo'', ''Habbo X'', and ''Habbo Hotel: Origins''. The ''Habbo'' client is aimed at teenagers and young adults, while ''Habbo X'' and ''Habbo Hotel: Origins'' cater for adult players. Users on the game can create a virtual avatar (called a "Habbo"), converse and interact with other users, play games, build and design virtual rooms, take care of virtual pets, and complete Quest (video games), quests. History ''Habbo'' stemmed from a 1999 hobby project by creative designer Sampo Karjalainen and technologist Aapo Kyrölä entitled Mobiles Disco, for a Finnish band. It was a virtual chat room running on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |