Funcom

Funcom Productions is a Norwegian computer and video game developer and publisher. Besides its Oslo, Norway, headquarters, Funcom has offices in USA, China, and Switzerland.

Founded in 1993 by Erik Gloersen, Ian Neil, Andre Backen, Gaute Godager and Olav Mørkrid, the company is one of the leading independent game developers and publishers in the world, possibly number one in Europe[citation needed]. They focus mainly on PC games but has also released games on other consoles such as Super NES, Sega Saturn, Sega Genesis and Xbox.

In December 2005, Funcom was the first Norwegian game developer to be listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

On 14 March 2007, the company abandoned traditional "offline" product distribution (e.g. on optical discs) in favor of digital distribution completely. The main reason for this decision was admittedly the financial losses due to software piracy.