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Founding
Ocous is founded
Ocous LLC is established in Redmond, Washington, set on building the most engaging MMORTS games for tablet and mobile devices.
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Launch
Age of Sorcery launches
The studio’s debut game, a free massively multiplayer MMORTS empire-builder, releases for Windows Phone.
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Press · Microsoft
Microsoft spotlights Age of Sorcery
Microsoft features Age of Sorcery on the official Windows Blog, in “MMO gaming on Nokia Lumia,” highlighting its growing player base and strategic depth.
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Award
Age of Sorcery wins best MMO game on Windows Phone
Age of Sorcery wins two MMO of the Year 2013 awards (Jury and Audience) for the best MMO game on Windows Phone, where it also rose to the No.1 strategy game.
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Press · CodeRewind
Age of Sorcery earns rave reviews
Review site CodeRewind calls Age of Sorcery “extremely addictive and interesting,” noting the empire-builder has “won rave reviews from the users.”
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Launch
Storm of Wars launches
The flagship MMORTS debuts on Windows and Windows Phone first, then rolls out to Android (October 27) and iOS, bringing real-time strategy combat to a kingdom-building war game across platforms.
Sources: Windows Central · review Android launch announcement (Oct 2015) Google Play listing (archived)
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Press · Microsoft
Microsoft: Built from the ground-up, Storm of Wars delivers on Windows 10
Microsoft’s Windows Developer “stories” series profiles how the studio built its flagship MMORTS for Windows 10.
Source: Microsoft Developer · Windows stories (archived 2016)
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Event · Microsoft
Featured at the Microsoft //build Solutions Showcase
Storm of Wars is promoted at Microsoft’s //build developer conference as the Solutions Showcase.
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Award
No.1 Best-rated game on the U.S. Windows Store
One month after its 2016 Windows 10 launch, Storm of Wars becomes No.1 best-rated game across all categories in the U.S. market, No.1 Strategy in the Indie Game Collection, No.3 in Virtual Battle Collection, Top-5 Strategy in 20+ countries.
Source: Windows Central · review
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Event · Microsoft
Guest speaker at the Windows All-hands Meeting
Ocous is invited to speak at Microsoft’s Windows All-hands Meeting, presented as a developer success story for Storm of Wars.
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Press · Microsoft
Microsoft: Storm of Wars finds cross-platform success with the Windows 10 Universal Platform
A Microsoft Windows Developer story on how the Universal Windows Platform helped the MMORTS reach players across Windows devices.
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Launch
Storm of Wars comes to the Amazon Appstore
Storm of Wars expands to the Amazon Appstore.
Source: Amazon Appstore (archived)
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Launch
Storm of Wars enters the Chinese market via Xiaomi (Mi GetApps)
Storm of Wars launches on Xiaomi’s Mi GetApps store, marking its entry into the Chinese market.
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Anniversary
Storm of Wars celebrates 10 years
Storm of Wars marks a decade of epic battles, faction rivalries, and crown wars, played by a worldwide community of warlords.
Major Event History
From a small Redmond studio to award-winning MMORTS games played worldwide: the milestones that shaped Ocous.