GameSamba is an American publisher of online games such as ''Star Trek: Alien Domain''. Headquartered in

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, GameSamba also operates offices in

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and

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. In 2016, the company announced a strategic alliance with

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, a content distributor specialized in bringing Japanese ''anime'' to North America.

History

In 2015, GameSamba launched Star Trek: Alien Domain, an online strategy game, playable via web browser. It is an officially licensed

Star Trek ''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the Star Trek: The Original Series, series of the same name and became a worldwide Popular culture, pop-culture Cultural influence of ...

game published by GameSamba. It is set in the fluidic space where players can choose between two factions, the

Klingon Empire The Klingons ( ; Klingon language, Klingon: ''tlhIngan'' ) are a humanoid species of aliens in the science fiction franchise ''Star Trek''. Developed by screenwriter Gene L. Coon in 1967 for the Star Trek: The Original Series, original ''Star T ...

and the

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. In collaboration with the Japanese publishing company

Kodansha is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines which include ''Nakayoshi'', ''Morning (magazine), Morning'', ''Afternoon (magazine), Afternoon'', ''Evening (magazine), Eveni ...

, GameSamba is currently developing a browser game called Fairy Tail: Hero's Journey and a mobile game called Fairy Tail: Adventures, both based on the Japanese ''manga''

Fairy Tail ''Fairy Tail'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from August 2006 to July 2017, with the individual chapters collect ...

. The development of a mobile game on the Japanese ''manga''

Attack on Titan is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. It is set in a world where humanity is forced to live in cities surrounded by three enormous walls that protect them from gigantic man-eating humanoids referred to a ...

was announced in March 2016. The mobile game Tokyo Ghoul: Dark War, based on the Japanese ''

seinen manga is an editorial category of Japanese comics marketed toward young adult men. In Japanese, the word means "youth", but the term " manga" is also used to describe the target audience of magazines like '' Weekly Manga Times'' and '' Weekly Man ...

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, is said to launch in 2018. The game is officially licensed by the Japanese animation studio

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Notable games

* Star Trek: Alien Domain * Fairy Tail: Hero's Journey * Tokyo Ghoul: Dark War * 18: Dream World * Attack On Titan: Assault

Games no longer published by GameSamba

* Remnant Knights * Jolly Grim * Rainbow Saga * Shadowland Online * Cocolani Island * Realms Online/Regnum Online/ Champions of Regnum *

RAN Online ''Ran Online'' (stylized as ''RAN Online'', zh, 亂Online) was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Min Communications, Inc., the company that had also developed ''Remnant Knights''. After starting the first official ...

Ragnarok Online ''Ragnarok Online'' (, ''Rageunarokeu Onrain'' marketed as ''Ragnarök'', and alternatively subtitled ''The Final Destiny of the Gods'') is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) created by Gravity (Korean company), Gravity based ...

* Lady Popular * Managore * Khan Wars * Tribal Trouble 2

References

External links

Official website
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