Ankama (Quantumverse)

Ankama is a French entertainment company headquartered in Roubaix, France, and owned by Warner Bros. They focused on the design of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (Dofus, Dofus Arena, and Wakfu). The company is also active in publishing comics on DC Comics, Image Comics, and Archie Comics, working animation on Cartoon Network Studios, and Web development. It was founded by Anthony Roux, Camille Chafer, and Emmanuel Darras. The company name comes from their own names: ANthony, KAmille, MAnu. However in 2018, when Ankama was acquired by Otter Media, the company was separated. Ankama Animation has become a joint venture of Cartoon Network Studios, Ankama, and Warner Bros. Animation Studios, Ankama Games is now a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Ankama Entertainment, Ankama Éditions became a subsidiary of DC Comics and their Web, Press, and Development strategy would remain on their entertainment company. 
== Video games ==
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== Comic book publishing ==
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== Web ==
Ankama Web is an interactive communication agency specializing in digital media, Web development, and marketing buzz strategies. Ankama Web thus develops websites and Internet applications for professionals. Created in 2001, the agency was historically the first pole of activity of Ankama.
== Press ==
Ankama Presse, dedicated to the publication of magazines, was created on June 15, 2007, as a part of Ankama's cross-media strategy. It published mainly magazines about Ankama's video games. Its main product was Dofus Mag, focused on Ankama's flagship game, Dofus. The magazine's format was inspired by the Japanese concept of the mook, indicating a hybrid product between magazine and book: while being distributed on newsstands, it was meant to be read and preserved as a book. Dofus Mag and other Ankama Presse titles were subsequently canceled.
== Development strategy ==
=== Internationally ===
Ankama developed internationally in the 2000s with two subsidiaries in the United States and Japan and expanded with the arrival of Olivier Comte as general manager and the creation of many other studios.
Ankama Studio is a subsidiary of Ankama, created in 2006, which produces games for other companies, particularly in North America. The Ankama Japan studio, based in Tokyo, opened in early 2009. It mainly deals with animation.
Based in Montreal, the Ankama Canada studio was created on August 1, 2013, by two Ankama employees. The group, made up of ten employees, is the author of the video game Abraca. To enable (among other things) the expansion of the Wakfu game in China, the company opened a studio in Singapore in early 2014. These two studios, as well as another in São Paulo in Brazil, will close quickly, to allow Ankama to focus on Japan and Paris.
The Ankama Asia group, based in Manila in the Philippines, and aiming to develop its games in the Asian world, was acquired on March 22, 2016, by Keywords Studios. During this four-year contract, Keywords wishes to recruit about twenty more employees.
In 2018, Studio No Border was created, a Tokyo subsidiary responsible for the development of Japanese animations and video games. Thomas Romain, known for his Code Lyoko series, is the artistic director.
In 2019, Ankama reached the twelfth rank of the most profitable French companies.
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