video game founded february 2005 founder elie akilian headquarters austin texas and plano texas u.s.a. key people j. todd coleman co creator of wizard101 josef hall co creator of wizard101 products wizard101 and pirate101 website kingsisle.com this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources . november 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message kingsisle entertainment is a video game developer based in austin and plano texas founded by elie akilian in january 2005 and launched the following month . 1 2 perhaps the best known of the company s recruits are tom hall co founder of id software and ion storm and j. todd coleman co founder of wolfpack studios . coleman and tom hall have since left kingsisle entertainment . the business primary focus is creating family online games . kingsisle s kid safe games have been honored with awards from the national parenting publication beckett massive online gamer magazine massively.com and mmorpg.com . 3 4 5 to date kingsisle has produced two online games wizard101 a card battling mmo featuring wizards in a fantasy world and the recently released pirate101 which takes place within the same universe as wizard101 . kingsisle has also produced kifreegames a games website with a few wizard101 games wizardblox and grub guardian their apps for the iphone . its second game pirate101 won game of the year mmo . 3 in may 2016 kingsisle laid off 72 employees at their austin studio as part of a reduction in force due to cancellation of a few unreleased mobile game titles . 6 7 games released edit year title platform 2008 wizard101 pc 2012 pirate101 pc 2012 grub guardian mobile browser 2015 rise and destroy mobile 2016 alphacat mobile external links edit official website references edit calnan christopher 1 october 2012 . kingsisle plans second game release this month . austin business journal . retrieved 15 october 2016 . ewalt david m. 6 december 2012 . kingsisle entertainment s path to video game victory . forbes . retrieved 15 october 2016 . a b 2012 players choice awards . mmorpg.com . december 11 2012 . wizard101 takes home reader s choice best mmo of 2010 . mmoreporter.com . january 4 2011 . nappa 2009 award winning software video games and websites . parenthood.com . 2009 . nutt christian 12 may 2016 . wizard101 studio kingsisle confirms layoffs . gamasutra . retrieved 15 october 2016 . gallaga omar l. 23 may 2016 . kingsisle lays off 72 in austin in wake of cancelled mobile games . 512tech . retrieved 15 october 2016 . this united states video game corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kingsisle entertainment & oldid 744494283 categories video game companies of the united statesvideo game development companiescompanies based in austin texasunited states video game company stubshidden categories articles lacking reliable references from november 2008all articles lacking reliable referencesall stub articles 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 deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 15 october 2016 at 16 12 . 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