Freeverse Inc.


Freeverse Inc. was a developer of computer and video game and desktop software based in New York City which was acquired by Ngmoco in 2010. Ngmoco was itself acquired later that year, and shut down in 2016.

History

Freeverse was founded as a shareware company in 1994 by Ian Lynch Smith. Freeverse's first product, a version of Hearts Deluxe for the Mac, used Game artificial intelligence based on Ian's studies in Cognitive Science. On February 22, 2010, it was announced that Freeverse had been acquired by ngmoco.
On October 12, 2010, Japanese-based DeNA announced its acquisition of ngmoco for $400,000,000. Ngmoco LLC became the regional headquarters for all Western subsidiaries of DeNA, including studios in Vancouver, Santiago de Chile, Stockholm and Amsterdam.
However, on October 18, 2016, DeNA announced the closure of all Western subsidiaries including ngmoco.

Mac games

Original titles

Currently, Freeverse is developing a version of Airburst for the Xbox 360 video game console from Microsoft.
Freeverse has delivered TotemBall which is an Xbox Live Arcade musical action game with Strange Flavour and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It takes advantage of the Xbox Live Vision camera with the camera tracking the players hand movements. It was released on October 4, 2006. On August 1, 2007 Marathon: Durandal and Spyglass Board Games were released to the Xbox Live Arcade.

Xbox Live Arcade Games