Back ديجيتال إكستريمس Arabic ديچيتال اكستريمس ARZ دیجیتاڵ ئێکسترێمس CKB Digital Extremes German Digital Extremes Spanish دیجیتال اکستریمز Persian Digital Extremes French Digital Extremes HE Digital Extremes Hungarian Digital Extremes Armenian
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | London, Ontario, Canada |
Number of employees | 300+[1] |
| Parent | Leyou |
| Divisions | Digital Extremes Toronto[2] |
| Website | www |
Digital Extremes Ltd. is a Canadian video game developer founded in 1993 by James Schmalz. They are best known for creating Warframe, a free-to-play cooperative online action game, and co-creating Epic Games' Unreal series of games. Digital Extremes is headquartered in London, Ontario. In 2014, 61% of the company was sold to Chinese holding company Multi Dynamic, now Leyou, for $73 million.[3] In May 2016 Leyou exercised a call option and increased their stake to 97% of Digital Extremes for a total consideration of $138.2 million US.[4] In December 2020, Tencent bought Leyou for 1.3 billion dollars, which included the majority stake in Digital Extremes that Leyou held.
- ^ "Digital Extremes - Our Company". September 6, 2023.
- ^ "Digital Extremes expands to Toronto". Gamesindustry.biz.
- ^ "GamesBeat Boss interview: China's Leyou moves from chicken meat to triple-A game publishing". VentureBeat. September 2, 2017. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
- ^ "HKSE-Listed Leyou Technologies Acquires Balance of Digital Extremes from Founders | Bennett Jones". www.bennettjones.com. Retrieved October 25, 2019.