Miniclip


Miniclip is a Swiss free browser game website. It was launched in 2001 and is known for having a large and varied collection of games. It is the world's largest privately owned online gaming website. It was started in 2001 by Robert Small and Tihan Presbie l on a budget of £40,000 and quickly grew., the company has been valued at over £275 million, having been profitable for six of its first seven years, with turnovers exceeding £20 million from 2006–2008 alone.
In 2015, Tencent acquired majority stakes of Miniclip.
In December 2016, Miniclip crossed 1 billion downloads across its mobile games on iOS, Android and Windows devices, with more than 350 million downloads in the past 12 months.

Mobile games

Miniclip has many mobile games that are available for iOS, Android, Symbian and Windows Phone, such as 8 Ball Pool, Gravity Guy, Bloons Tower Defense, Plague Inc., Berry Rush, Agar.io, Diep.io, Mini Militia, among many other app games.

Xbox games for Windows 8

In September 2012, Microsoft announced on Windows team blog dated 31 August 2012 that Miniclip games will be able to distribute their games on the Xbox division of Windows 8. Miniclip games that are supported by Xbox for Windows 8 include Gravity Guy, iStunt 2 and Monster Island. Gravity Guy was released on Windows Store on 29 November 2012. In April 2013, most of the Miniclip games for Windows 8 and Windows Phone were distributed for free for one year.

Xbox One, PC, and PS4

On February 14, 2017, Miniclip released their first game which can be played on Xbox One, PC, and PlayStation 4, called MX Nitro.

Malicious software issues

On 1 September 2005, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued an advisory concerning Miniclip:
In 2006, several security firms reported that some Miniclip users had installed a "miniclipgameloader.dll" which contained the hostile code identified as "Trojan DownLoader 3069". In the same year, another download related to Miniclip installed "High Risk" malware called "Trojan-Downloader.CR64Loader".