Nival (company): History and Key Facts

Nival is an independent video game developer and publisher. It was founded in 1996 in Moscow by Sergey Orlovskiy, who became the company's chief executive officer. The company has also operated under the names Nival Entertainment and Nival Interactive, and had the subsidiaries Nival Online and Nival Network. Since 2016 it has been headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus.

The company is best known for the Allods series (released in the West as Rage of Mages), Evil Islands, Etherlords, Blitzkrieg, Silent Storm, Heroes of Might and Magic V, which it developed for Ubisoft, and the multiplayer online battle arena game Prime World. Its online division, Nival Online, created the MMORPG Allods Online and was fully acquired by Mail.Ru in 2010. Since 2024, Nival has been releasing the source code of its older games under a non-commercial license.

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