Akella

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Akella
Type
Founded	1995
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Industry	Computer and video game industry
Employees	140+
Website	English version of Akella homepage

Akella is a leading Russian software company specializing in the development, publishing, and distribution of computer games and multimedia products. The founders of Akella met in 1993 and decided to start a company together, in 1995 Akella was born. The company comprises five in-house development teams, a publishing house, a distribution center, a localization team and a quality assurance department; in total, some 140 people are employed by Akella.

Akella develop games for the PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Wii platforms, such as:

1. Sea Dogs (released in 2000), a pirate-adventuring action RPG (Bethesda Softworks/UbiSoft/1C)
2. Age of Sail II (released in 2001), a real-time naval combat simulation (Take 2/Talonsoft/1C)
3. Privateers Bounty (released in 2002), another premium real-time naval combat simulation (Take 2/Global Star Software/1C)
4. Pirates of the Caribbean (Originally known as Sea Dogs II) (released in July, 2003), the pirating adventure for PC and Xbox platforms, developed under license for the Disney adventure movie of the same name (Bethesda Softworks/UbiSoft/1C)
5. Sea Dogs III (2005) (1C)
6. Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales
7. Age of Pirates: Captain Blood
8. Postal 2: Штопор Жжот Russian Postal 2 add-on
9. Postal 3

[edit] External links

• English version of Akella homepage
• Akella entry at MobyGames