ZeniMax Halifax Ltd. (

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: Alpha Dog Games) is a mobile

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based in

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, Canada that develops mobile games for the

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and

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platforms. The company was acquired by

ZeniMax Media ZeniMax Media Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Rockville, Maryland, and founded in 1999. The company owns publisher Bethesda Softworks with its development unit Bethesda Game Studios (developer of ''The Elder Scrolls, ...

in October 2019. ZeniMax Media was acquired by

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in March 2021 and became part of

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. As a result, Alpha Dog Games has been owned by Microsoft since 2021, and it is an indirect mobile gaming extension of the

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brand.

Games developed

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