CI Games S.A. (formerly City Interactive S.A.) is a Polish video game developer and publisher based in Warsaw. Founded in 2002, originally as a budget-range game company, CI Games is best known for the Sniper: Ghost Warrior and Lords of the Fallen series.
History City Interactive was founded in 2002 through the merger of three video game companies: Lemon Interactive, We Open Eyes and Tatanka. The company originally acted as a developer and publisher of budget-range games. In 2007, City Interactive merged with Oni Games, a third-party publisher formed alongside City Interactive in 2002, and Detalion Art, an adventure game developer founded by Roland Pantoła, Maciej Miąsik, Danuta Sienkowska, Robert Ożóg, Łukasz Pisarek and Krzysztof Bar, when they left LK Avalon. Also in 2007, City Interactive undertook its initial public offering and became a public company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
In 2008, City Interactive dropped its budget-range operations, which it wished to underline with the subsequent release of Sniper: Ghost Warrior in 2010. In an interview with magazine MCV, the company stated that the success of the game led them to believe that they had made the right decisions in terms of strategy and product portfolio. By June 2011, City Interactive employed a total of 150 people in its headquarters in Warsaw, its development studios in Rzeszów, Katowice, Poznań and Guildford, and its publishing offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. In 2012, City Interactive's development team adopted the name "CI Games", and City Interactive changed its name entirely to CI Games in 2013.
In February 2018, CI Games shrunk its development staff to 30 people. According to chief executive officer Marek Tymiński, the measure had been taken due to many problems having occurred during the production of Sniper Ghost Warrior 3, even though the game itself had surpassed one million copies sold and had turned a profit for the company in the company's 2017 fiscal year by the time the decision was made. In January 2019, CI Games established a new publishing label, United Label, for independent games. United Label is to help fund indie developers in exchange for a share of the games' revenue.
From 2020 through to 2021, the number of CI Games employees increased significantly, with the current team now over 140 people and growing. Around eighty members of staff are directly involved in game production, with forty of those working on Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2, fifty on Lords of the Fallen, and the remainder forming the QA department.
In January 2024, CI Games laid off 10% of its workforce. Lords of the Fallen developer Hexworks and Sniper Ghost Warrior developer Underdog were also affected. Another 30 employees were laid off in May 2024.
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Games developed Title Release year Alien Rage (formerly Alien Fear) 2013 Armed Forces Corp. 2009 Art of Murder: FBI Confidential 2008 Art of Murder 2: Hunt for the Puppeteer 2009 Art of Murder: The Secret Files 2010 Art of Murder 3: Cards of Destiny 2010 Art of Murder: Deadly Secrets 2011 Battlestrike: Force of Resistance ( Mortyr III in Eastern Europe) 2008 Battlestrike: Road to Berlin ( WWII: Battlestrike) 2005 Battlestrike: Shadow of Stalingrad ( Battlestrike: Force of Resistance 2) 2009 Battlestrike: The Siege 2005 Beauty Factory 2007 Brain College: 3 Days ZOO Mystery 2009 Brain College: Aquatica: The sunken city 2009 Brain College: Ancient Quest of Saqqarah 2008 Brain College: Aztec Adventures 2006 Brain College: Blood Ties 2008 Brain College: Call of Atlantis 2008 Brain College: Chinese Temple 2006 Brain College: Coyote's Tales: Sisters of Fire and Water 2009 Brain College: El Dorado Quest 2008 Brain College: Herod's Lost Tomb 2008 Brain College: Lost City of Z 2009 Brain College: Magic Bootique 2009 Brain College: Pharaoh's Mystery 2009 Brain College: Stoneloops of Jurassica 2008 Brain College: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste 2009 Brain College: Tropical Lost Island 2009 Chicken Riot 2010 Chronicles of Mystery: Curse of the Ancient Temple 2009 Chronicles of Mystery: Secret of the Lost Kingdom 2011 Chronicles of Mystery: The Legend of the Sacred Treasure 2010 Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual 2008 Chronicles of Mystery: The Tree of Life 2009 Code of Honor: The French Foreign Legion 2007 Code of Honor 2: Conspiracy Island 2008 Code of Honor 3: Desperate Measures 2009 Combat Wings 2005 Combat Wings: Battle of Britain 2006 Combat Wings: Battle of the Pacific ( World War II: Pacific Heroes) 2004 Combat Wings: Great Battles of WWII ( Dogfight 1942) 2012 Combat Zone: Special Forces 2010 Cooking Academy 2008 Cooking Academy 2 2009 Crime Lab: Body of Evidence 2010 Enemy Front 2014 Farm Frenzy 2007 I Love Beauty: Hollywood Makeover 2009 I Love Beauty: Make Up Studio 2008 Jade Rousseau: The Fall of Sant Antonio 2010 Jet Storm: Modern Dogfights ( Jetfighter 2015) 2005 Jewels of Atlantis 2006 Jewels of the Sahara 2014 Jewels of the Ages 2011 Jewels of Tropical Lost Island 2010 Logic Machines 2010 Lords of the Fallen (2014) 2014 Murder in Venice 2011 Operation Thunderstorm ( Mortyr IV: Operation Thunderstorm) 2008 Party Designer 2009 Project Freedom ( Space Interceptor or Starmageddon 2) 2004 Redneck Kentucky and the Next Generation Chickens 2007 Red Baron Ace of the Sky 2004 SAS: Secure Tomorrow 2008 Shutter Island 2010 Smash Up Derby 2003 Sniper: Art of Victory 2007 Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2010 Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 2013 Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 2017 Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2019 Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 2021 Sushi Academy 2009 Tank Combat 2007 The Chickenator 2003 The Hell in Vietnam 2007 The Royal Marines Commando 2008 Terrorist Takedown 2004 Terrorist Takedown: Covert Operations 2006 Terrorist Takedown: Payback 2005 Terrorist Takedown: War in Colombia 2006 Terrorist Takedown 2 2008 Terrorist Takedown 3 2010 Vampire Moon: The Mystery of the Hidden Sun 2010 Wings of Honour 2003 Wings of Honour: Battles of the Red Baron 2006 Wolfschanze II 2011 WWII: Pacific Heroes 2004
Games published Title Release year Developer Aggression: Reign Over Europe 2007 Lesta Studio Airborne Troops 2004 Widescreen Games Alarm for Cobra 11: Crash Time II 2007 Synetic Alcatraz 2010 Silden Apassionata 2009 B-Alive Dark Sector (PC port) 2008 Digital Extremes Dusk 12: Deadly Zone 2007 Orion Games Farm Frenzy (Nintendo DSi Port) 2011 Alawar Entertainment Heat Wave 2009 Nemesys Games Hidden Target ( Jonathan Kane: The Protector or The Mark 2) 2009 Gingerbread Studios Lords of the Fallen 2023 Hexworks MotorM4X: Offroad Extreme 2008 The Easy Company Pirate Hunter 2009 ND games, D10 Soft Pyroblazer 2008 Candella Studios, Eipix Entertainment RTL Biathlon 2009 2008 49Games RTL Winter Sports 2009 2008 49Games SCAR ( Squadra Corse Alfa Romeo) 2005 Milestone Specnaz 2 2009 BYTE Software Street Racer: Europe 2009 Team6 Game Studios The History Channel: Great Battles of Rome 2007 Slitherine Software TrackMania Turbo: Build to Race (Nintendo DS port) 2010 Firebrand Games Ubersoldier II ( Crimes of War) 2007 Burut Creative Team Wolfschanze 1944 2011 Calaris Lords of the Fallen II 2027 Hexworks
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