Press Releases

 At the GP Bullhound Media Momentum Awards 2010 which were awarded on May 12th, Frogster reached the 20th position within the ranking of the 50 strongest growing European internet companies. In London, last Wednesday evening, the British investment and technology bank GP Bullhound presented the awards for outstanding corporate accomplishments and outstanding growth dynamic of companies in the digital economy for the sixth time. Alongside this, Andreas Weidenhaupt, member of the Frogster management board is being ranked on position nine in a newly put up ranking list of the most influential personalities within the worldwide MMO Game business by a leading American print magazine for massively multiplayer online games, Beckett Massive Online Gamer. With this, the magazine simultaneously views him as the most influential European within the segment of MMO Games in general.

Frogster – We take you to a new world!

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). With its top titles ‘Runes of Magic’ and ‘Bounty Bay Online’ Frogster has already gathered over 4.2 million registered players worldwide. 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 America Inc. based in San Francisco, USA, Frogster Online Gaming GmbH based in Berlin, Germany, and Frogster Asia Co. Ltd. based in Seoul, Korea, market and operate their games in America, Europe and Asia respectively. Under the umbrella of Frogster Online Gaming, OnlineWelten acts as one of the widest range German language MMO and gaming portals. At Frogster Asia, the company runs its own development studio to create new virtual worlds. In 2008, Frogster was awarded as “Landmark in the Land of Ideas”, an initiative under the patronage of German Federal President Dr. Horst Köhler. The shares of the Frogster Interactive Pictures AG have been listed in the Entry Standard segment of the Frankfurt stock exchange since February 2006. Internet: www.frogster.de