Miniclip SA is a

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publisher and former browser game website that launched in 2001. It was started by Robert Small and Tihan Presbie with a budget of £40,000. In 2008, the company was valued at over £275 million. In 2009, Miniclip hosted over 400 applications on its website. In 2015, Tencent acquired majority stakes of Miniclip. In December 2016, Miniclip achieved 1 billion downloads across its mobile games on iOS,

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, and Windows devices. In March 2022, Miniclip announced that it had reached 4 billion downloads, with ''8 Ball Pool'' alone accounting for 1 billion. In April 2022, Miniclip announced that it would begin prioritizing its mobile games. As a result, the browser game portal was shut down in July 2022 and the website lost all but its two most popular games,

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and 8 Ball Pool. In June 2022, Miniclip acquired

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, the publisher of '' Subway Surfers'', in an undisclosed deal.

Studios

Mobile games

Miniclip has developed and published numerous mobile games for iOS,