Akella

Akella (Russian: Акелла) was a Russian software company specialising in the development, publishing and distribution of video games and multimedia products. The founders met in 1993 and decided to start a company together and in 1995 formed Akella. The company comprised five in-house development teams, a publishing house, a distribution center, a localisation team and a quality assurance department; in total, 250 people were employed by Akella. There were several sub-brands owned by Akella, i.e. Macho Studios that developed erotic games and published Japanese hentai dating sims.^[1][2]

Akella

Industry	Video games
Founded	1993; 31 years ago (1993)
Defunct	2012
Fate	Bankruptcy, Dissolved
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Number of employees	250 (2012)
Divisions	Akella Online
Website	akella.com

The company is named after a Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book character, Akela the wolf, and its logo is a wolf.

Defunct status

During 2012, the company was amid multiple lawsuits totalling ₽200,000,000^[3] (roughly $6,000,000) which, combined with the significant developmental difficulties and commercial failings of Postal III, pushed Akella to the verge of bankruptcy. As a result, the company, while technically still existing, has effectively ceased operations since 2012.^[4]

Games

Year	Title	Platform(s)	Developer(s)	Publisher(s)
1997	Postal	Windows	Running with Scissors	Ripcord Games, Loki Entertainment, Running with Scissors, Akella (in Russia)
1998	Liquidator	MS-DOS	Partizan Software	Akella[5]
2000	Sea Dogs	Windows	Akella	Bethesda Softworks
2001	Age of Sail II	Windows	Akella	Bethesda Softworks
2002	Privateers Bounty: Age of Sail II	Windows	Akella	1C Company
2003	Bomber Fun	Windows	LightBrain	Akella (in Russia)
2003	Postal 2	Windows	Running with Scissors	Whiptail Interactive, Running with Scissors, Akella (in Russia)
2003	Postal 2: Share the Pain	Windows	Running with Scissors	Whiptail Interactive, Running with Scissors, Akella (in Russia)
2003	Pirates of the Caribbean	Windows, Xbox	Akella	Bethesda Softworks and 1C Conmpany
2004	Sabotain: Break the Rules	Windows	Avalon Style Entertainment	Akella
2004	Red Skies Over Europe	Windows	Interactive Vision	Akella
2005	Metalheart: Replicants Rampage	Windows	Numlock Software	DreamCatcher and Akella
2003	Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend	Windows	Running with Scissors	Whiptail Interactive, Running with Scissors, Akella (in Russia)
2005	Postal 2: Corkscrew Rules!	Windows	Avalon Style Entertainment	Akella
2006	Evil Days of Luckless John	Windows	Centauri Production	CINEMAX, Akella
2006	Tanita: Plasticine Dream	Windows	Trickster Games	Akella
2006	Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales	Windows	Akella	1C Company
2006	Sakura Wars	Windows	Sega, Red Entertainment	Akella (in Russia)
2007	Tarr Chronicles: Sign of Ghosts	Windows	Quazar Studio	Akella
2007	Galactic Assault: Prisoner of Power	Windows	Wargaming	Akella
2007	Inhabited Island: Prisoner of Power	Windows	Orion	Akella
2007	Hard to Be a God	Windows	Burut CT	Nobilis, Akella
2007	Swashbucklers: Blue vs. Grey	Windows	Akella	1C Company
2007	Empire Above All	Windows	Icehill	Akella
2007	Inhabited Island: The Earthling	Windows	Step Creative Group	Akella
2007	Dead Mountaineer's Hotel	Windows	Electronic Paradise	Akella
2008	Sakura Wars 2	Windows	Sega, Red Entertainment	Akella
2009	A Stroke of Fate: Operation Valkyrie	Windows	SPLine	Akella
2009	A Stroke of Fate: Operation Bunker	Windows	SPLine	Akella
2009	Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships	Windows	Akella	Playlogic
2009	PT Boats: Knights of the Sea	Windows	Akella	Battlefront.com and Akella
2010	Disciples III: Renaissance	Windows	.dat	Kalypso Media, Akella
2010	PT Boats: South Gambit	Windows	Akella	Battlefront.com, Akella
2011	Disciples III: Resurrection	Windows	.dat	Akella
2011	Postal III	Windows	Trashmasters, Running with Scissors	Akella
2012	Sea Dogs: To Each His Own	Windows	BlackMark Studio	Akella

References

1. Костин, Семён (3 April 2018). "Война Сакуры: как «Акелла» опередила весь мир — Аниме на DTF". DTF. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
2. "PLAYER ONE". PLAYER ONE (in Russian). Retrieved 2 April 2022.
3. Roman Dorokhov (9 August 2012). "'Akella' finished: 200 million ruble lawsuits filed" (in Russian). Ведомости. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
4. Anastasia Alekseevskikh (14 June 2012). "Video game developer 'Akella' on the verge of bankruptcy" (in Russian). Маркер. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
5. "Ликвидатор". Igromania. Retrieved 28 March 2023.

External links

• Companies portal

• Official website
• Akella at MobyGames