online video game developer founded seattle 2009 1 headquarters 1601 2nd ave suite 800 seattle wa 98101 united states key people lou fasulo ed fries ryan murphy shanis windland mark alkhazov 1 products video games website z2live.com z2live is an american video game developer based in seattle washington . all of z2live s games are available for free with premium content available for a fee.as of 2016 it a subsidiary of king digital division of activision blizzard . history edit z2live was founded in 2009 by david bluhm and damon danieli with the goal of creating an xbox live style gaming platform . with the announcement of apple s game center lou fasulo svp pivoted the company to its current business of creating highly social freemium games for mobile . the company s first game was trade nations a city building simulation which achieved critical acclaim as well as viral success within its first few months on the ios platform . 2 following the initial success of trade nations the company received additional investment from seattle s madrona venture group as well as draper fisher jurvetson . 3 the company s next game metalstorm brought the freemium model to aerial combat flight simulators while also earning acclaim for its integration of airplay mirroring . 4 following metalstorm the company released its third ios title battle nations which combined city building mechanics with strategy based pvp . the company also expanded in 2012 with the acquisition of big sandwich games a vancouver based game developer company . 5 on february 12 2015 z2live was acquired by king digital entertainment plc. 6 games edit name platform s year released trade nations ios os x 2010 metalstorm ios 2011 battle nations ios os x 2011 nitro ios 2011 references edit a b z2live . archived from the original on march 22 2015 . retrieved 3 may 2012 . ios social game trade nations played over 200 million times in first three months . the street . retrieved 19 july 2012 . cutler kim mai . z2live becomes yet another mobile gaming startup to scoop up more venture funding . retrieved 19 july 2012 . metalstorm wingman using airplay mirroring . z2live swallows big sandwich games in acquisition deal exclusive . http investor.king.com investors news financial releases press release details 2015 king reports fourth quarter and full year 2014 results announces special dividend of 094 per share default.aspx retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title z2live & oldid 742385852 categories video game development companiescompanies based in seattle navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 october 2016 at 11 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view