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Company type | Subsidiary of THQ |
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Industry | Video games |
Founded | 2002 |
Defunct | March 2, 2010 |
Fate | Shuttered |
Headquarters | Tampere, Finland |
Products | The Force Unleashed de Blob |
Universomo Ltd. was a Finnish video game developer based in Tampere, Finland, founded in 2002, and acquired by THQ on May 9, 2007.[1][2] Universomo also had offices in Helsinki, Finland and San Diego, United States. The studio focused on games for mobile phones, the iPhone and the N-Gage. On January 12, 2010, THQ announced the Nintendo DS title Beat City, developed by Universomo,[3] marking the developer's first entry to the handheld gaming market.
On March 2, 2010, Universomo's closure was announced.[4] This left THQ Wireless without any studios under its umbrella, and development of its games would be outsourced to external studios.
Universomo was best known for the favorably reviewed mobile[5] and iPhone[6] versions of de Blob, the mobile, iPhone and N-Gage versions of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and the mobile versions of Lego Star Wars: The Video Game.