Abandon Interactive Entertainment

Infobox Company
company_name = Abandon Interactive Entertainment
company_
company_type = Limited Liability Company
foundation = 2005
location = New York, NY
Malibu, CA
key_people = Marcus Ticotin, CEO
Jamie Ottilie, President & COO
industry = Interactive entertainment
products = Bode Miller Alpine Racing
NBC Sports Figure Skating
revenue =
num_employees =
homepage = [http://www.abandonmobile.com/ www.abandonmobile.com]

Abandon Interactive Entertainment is a mobile game developer and publisher established in 2005 through a partnership between Abandon Entertainment, Inc. and GF Capital Management and Advisors, LLC. The two companies had previously partnered on several ventures, including Abandon’s investment into MMORPG developer and publisher Mythic Entertainment. Mythic and Abandon co-published the bestselling "Dark Age of Camelot".

Abandon announced its formation in an August 8 press release along with an announcement of along with an agreement with NBC Sports for an exclusive worldwide mobile gaming license to create NBC Sports branded games. Under the deal, Abandon would use NBC Sports content to create wireless video games available on mobile phones, many of which would be directly interactive with NBC Sports broadcasts. Among the first NBC Sports mobile games would be themed games in golf, hockey, horse racing, poker and skiing.

On October 17 Abandon announced the acquisition of Lucky Chicken Games of Santa Monica, California. This game developer would, under the Lucky Chicken name, create games for Abandon as well as continue to develop games for other game publishers and platforms.

Abandon released its first game, "Bode Miller Alpine Racing", on January 30, 2006, during the Winter Olympics. Its second game, "NBC Sports Figure Skating" was released days later, and a banner inviting television viewers to download the game appeared during NBC's broadcast of the figure skating event at 8:41pm EST on February 13. This marked the first time that a mobile game was promoted on television for downloading.

Published Titles

*"Bode Miller Alpine Racing" (2006)
*"NBC Sports Figure Skating" (2006)
*"NBC Sports Speed Skating" (2006) (Distributed in China only)
*"NBC Sports Heads-Up Poker" (2006)
*"NBC Sports Real Golf" (2006)
*"Freaky Creatures" (2008) (Fall 2008 Release)

External links

* [http://www.abandonmobile.com/ Abandon Mobile website]
* [http://www.mobygames.com/company/abandon-mobile Abandon Mobile] on MobyGames
*imdb company|0178457
* [http://www.freakycreatures.com/ Freaky Creatures website]