As the worldwide leading provider and pioneer in the market segment browser-based online games (browser games), we make the impossible possible: it is our vision to develop online games which are played exclusively in a browser window (in other words, without any download or installation from a CD) -- and in a quality which until now was limited to full priced game titles.Through the application of new technologies, we are able to realize new game concepts which contain graphics at the level of console games but are nevertheless playable without downloading.
The recent award as one of the 100 most innovative companies in Europe by the technology magazine Red Herring (Red Herring Award 2007), the double award for twoBigpoint games (XBlaster and Seafight) with the German Game Developer Award 2006 as "Best German Browser Game"as well as the award for the games portal Bigpoint.com in the category Web 2.0 by the Innovation Awards 2007 from the Medium-sized Business Initiative confirm our success.Since its foundation, Bigpoint has grown continuously: with more than 100 employees, a portfolio with over 20 games, and the manifold increase of sales last year alone, we are on a national and international course of expansion.
Bigpoint.com is Germany's biggest online games portal. Via this platform we offer the user access to the entire Bigpoint portfolio: Over 20 long running multiplayer games in different genres -- from action shooters to fantasy role-playing games, Bigpoint.com offers every player the right choice. All games can be played for free, and there are many chances to win prizes
But as Web 2.0 portal, Bigpoint.com is more than "just" a platform for our games: it is a platform for our players! In addition to accessing all of our games, in the portal-wide Bigpoint community they can exchange ideas, make friends, set up guest books, and keep an online diary in blog form. More than a hundred thousand registrations daily are proof positive that the portal is a success.
All games under one roof: Bigpoint.comOur diversified portfolio was combined in 2006 under Bigpoint.com. Bigpoint.com is considered as a Web 2.0 game portal and is home to a community of millions of gamers. Anybody can play from anywhere with anyone on any PCThe extreme flexibility makes browser games so special (they can be accessed from any PC via URL, the games can be updated like a website "on the fly", any costs for the user, if present at all, are flexible and transparent). It is a growing market in which the main investors in Bigpoint GmbH – GMT and NBC Universal (Peacock Equity Fund) – have invested.From Hamburg out into the worldBigpoint GmbH is also in an excellent position internationally: The game portal Bigpoint.com has already been translated into the most important languages and the most popular games are being played by communities around the world. In addition to the headquarters in Hamburg, we are also represented by an office in New York. Our browser games develop new game communities all over the world, and Hamburg is evolving into a center of international expansion.