Gameforge Berlin AG

The Frogster group is a Berlin-based, listed publisher of online games. Frogster focuses on the marketing and operation of virtual worlds, so-called massively multiplayer online games – one of the strongest growing sectors in the entertainment industry (market researchers estimate a growth of 62% p.a. until 2013, KZero Study „Virtual Worlds: 2010 and beyond“).

MMO Games are three-dimensional virtual adventure worlds on the internet in almost movie-like graphic quality which serve the simultaneous real-time entertainment of its population, the self-forged avatars of many thousands of users. With its top titles ‘Runes of Magic’ and ‘Bounty Bay Online’ Frogster has already gathered over 5 million registered players worldwide. For a release in 2011 Frogster has just recently announced the two highly ambitious MMO games ‘TERA’ and ‘Mythos’ (please refer to Products). Frogster also intends to enter into the rapidly growing market of browser and social games with ‘Bounty Bay Live’, ‘Throne of Fire’ and ‘Runes of Magic – The Challenge’ for Facebook shortly.

Currently the Frogster group employs more than 200 staff members in the fields of game development, licensing, IT, web design and web development, product management, marketing, PR, web publishing, community management, support, sales, hosting, billing and finance/administration. Frogster’s subsidiaries Frogster Online Gaming, Frogster America, Frogster Asia and Frogster Pacific market and operate their games in Europe, America, Asia and Oceania respectively (please refer to Subsidiaries). In 2008, Frogster was awarded as ‘Landmark in the Land of Ideas’, an initiative under the patronage of the German Federal President. The shares of the Frogster Interactive Pictures AG have been listed in the Entry Standard segment of the Frankfurt stock exchange since February 2006.