Akella

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title: "Akella" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["video-game-development-companies", "defunct-video-game-companies-of-russia", "companies-based-in-moscow", "video-game-companies-established-in-1993", "russian-companies-established-in-1993", "video-game-companies-disestablished-in-2012", "2012-disestablishments-in-russia", "video-game-companies-of-russia"] description: "Defunct Russian software company" topic_path: "geography/russia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akella" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Defunct Russian software company ::

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Field	Value
name	Akella
logo	Akella Games logo.jpg
foundation
location	Moscow, Russia
industry	Video games
num_employees	250
num_employees_year	2012
divisions	Akella Online
homepage
dissolved	2012
fate	Bankruptcy, Liquidated
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| name = Akella | logo = Akella Games logo.jpg | type = | genre = | foundation = | founder = | location_city = | location_country = | location = Moscow, Russia | key_people = | area_served = | industry = Video games | products = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | num_employees = 250 | num_employees_year = 2012 | parent = | divisions = Akella Online | subsid = | owner = | slogan = | homepage = | dissolved = 2012 | fate = Bankruptcy, Liquidated | footnotes = Akella () was a Russian software company specialising in the development, publishing and distribution of video games and multimedia products. The founders met in 1993 and decided to start a company together and in 1995 formed Akella. The company comprised five in-house development teams, a publishing house, a distribution center, a localisation team and a quality assurance department; in total, 250 people were employed by Akella. There were several sub-brands owned by Akella, such as Macho Studios, that developed erotic games and published Japanese hentai dating sims.

The company is named after a Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book character, Akela the wolf, and its logo is a wolf.

Defunct status

During 2012, the company was amid multiple lawsuits totalling ₽200,000,000 (roughly $6,000,000) which, combined with the significant developmental difficulties and commercial failings of Postal III, pushed Akella to the verge of bankruptcy. As a result, the company, while technically still existing, has effectively ceased operations since 2012.

Games developed and published

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Year	Title	Platform(s)	Developer(s)	Publisher(s)
1997	Postal	Windows	Running with Scissors	Ripcord Games, Loki Entertainment, Running with Scissors, Akella (in Russia)
1998	Liquidator	MS-DOS	Partizan Software	Akella
2000	Sea Dogs	Windows	Akella	Bethesda Softworks
2001	Age of Sail II	Windows	Akella	Bethesda Softworks
2002	Privateers Bounty: Age of Sail II	Windows	Akella	1C Company
2003	Bomber Fun	Windows	LightBrain	Akella (in Russia)
Postal 2	Running with Scissors	Whiptail Interactive, Running with Scissors, Akella (in Russia)
Postal 2: Share the Pain
Pirates of the Caribbean	Akella	Bethesda Softworks and 1C Company
Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend	Running with Scissors	Whiptail Interactive, Running with Scissors, Akella (in Russia)
2004	Sabotain: Break the Rules	Windows	Avalon Style Entertainment	Akella
Red Skies Over Europe	Interactive Vision	Akella
2005	Metalheart: Replicants Rampage	Windows	Numlock Software	DreamCatcher and Akella
Postal 2: Corkscrew Rules!	Avalon Style Entertainment	Akella
2006	Evil Days of Luckless John	Windows	Centauri Production	CINEMAX, Akella
Tanita: Plasticine Dream	Trickster Games	Akella
Mad Tracks	Load inc.	Akella (in Russia)
Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales	Akella	1C Company
Sakura Wars	Sega, Red Entertainment	Akella (in Russia)
2007	Tarr Chronicles: Sign of Ghosts	Windows	Quazar Studio	Akella
Galactic Assault: Prisoner of Power	Wargaming	Akella
Inhabited Island: Prisoner of Power	Orion	Akella
Hard to Be a God	Burut CT	Nobilis, Akella
Swashbucklers: Blue vs. Grey	Akella	1C Company
Empire Above All	Icehill	Akella
Inhabited Island: The Earthling	Step Creative Group	Akella
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel	Electronic Paradise	Akella
2008	Sakura Wars 2	Windows	Sega, Red Entertainment	Akella
2009	A Stroke of Fate: Operation Valkyrie	SPLine	Akella
A Stroke of Fate: Operation Bunker	SPLine	Akella
Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships	Akella	Playlogic
PT Boats: Knights of the Sea	Akella	Battlefront.com and Akella
2010	Disciples III: Renaissance	Windows	.dat [ru]	Akella (CIS), Kalypso Media (EU, NA)
PT Boats: South Gambit	Akella	Battlefront.com, Akella
2011	Disciples III: Resurrection	Windows	.dat [ru]	Akella (CIS), Kalypso Media (EU, NA)
Postal III	Trashmasters, Running with Scissors	Akella
2012	Disciples III: Reincarnation	Windows	hex Studio [ru]	Akella (CIS), Kalypso Media (EU, NA)
Sea Dogs: To Each His Own	BlackMark Studio	Akella
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References

References

1. Костин, Семён. (3 April 2018). "Война Сакуры: как «Акелла» опередила весь мир — Аниме на DTF".
2. "PLAYER ONE".
3. Roman Dorokhov. (9 August 2012). "'Akella' finished: 200 million ruble lawsuits filed". [[Ведомости]].
4. Anastasia Alekseevskikh. (14 June 2012). "Video game developer 'Akella' on the verge of bankruptcy". Маркер.
5. "Ликвидатор".
6. (2006-03-24). "Компания Акелла - игра Mad Tracks: Заводные Гонки".

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