Sixteen Tons Entertainment

Sixteen Tons Entertainment
Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video games
Founded	1993
Founder	Ralph Stock (CEO)
Headquarters	Tübingen, Berlin, Germany
Number of employees	20+
Parent	Phoenix Games (2020–present)
Website	sixteen-tons.de

Short description: German video game developer

Sixteen Tons Entertainment is a German computer game developer company based in Tübingen and Berlin, which emerged from the brand label of the Tübingen game developer Promotion Software. The company was founded in 1993 by Ralph Stock.^[1] Sixteen Tons Entertainment became known through the Emergency series and Mad TV.

History

Sixteen Tons Entertainment was originally a brand label of the Tübingen company Promotion Software. In the 1990s, advertising adventures were developed in the studio, as well as indirect successors to the strategy game Mad TV (Caribbean Disaster, Mad News) and Hurra Germany, a game for the 1994 federal election.

In 1998, Emergency was released, the first in a series of real-time strategy games. Further successors to the game series followed until 2017, for the PC and mobile platforms. In 2018, Emergency HQ, the first free-to-play game for the series, was released.

Between 2004 and 2009, board game conversions to games by Reiner Knizia (Keltis, Simply Genial) and educational software for children to the Willi-wills-wissen television series followed.

In 2009, a second studio was founded in Babelsberg near Potsdam. The Potsdam studio moved to Berlin in 2017.^[2]

On January 15, 2020, it was announced that Sixteen Tons Entertainment was taken over by Phoenix Games. Founder Ralph Stock will remain managing director of the company.^[3]

Development Studios

Sixteen Tons Studio Tübingen, Gründungsstudio
Sixteen Tons Studio Berlin (formed in 2009)

Games

Emergency series:
- Emergency: Fighters for Life
- Emergency 2
- Emergency 3
- Emergency 4
- Emergency 5
- Emergency Police
- Emergency 2012: Die Welt am Abgrund
- Emergency 2013
- Emergency 2014
- Emergency 2016
- Emergency 2017
- Emergency 20
- Emergency DS
- Emergency HQ
Caribbean Disaster
Hurra Deutschland
Mad News
- Mad News – Extrablatt
Mad TV
Der Stein der Weisen
The Show (2007)
Ben Hur Live – Das legendäre Wagenrennen
Einfach Genial 2.0
Keltis: Der Weg der Steine
Gotcha! Extreme Paintball
Willi wills wissen series:
- Willi wills wissen: Feuerwehr im Einsatz
- Willi wills wissen: Notruf Retter im Einsatz
- Willi wills wissen: SOS – Rettung auf See
- Willi wills wissen: Bei den Wikingern
- Willi und die Wunder dieser Welt – Expedition 1: Megacity & Dschungel
- Willi und die Wunder dieser Welt – Expedition 2: Arktis & Wüste

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[1] "Sixteen Tons Entertainment – About Us". http://www.sixteen-tons.de/about-us.

[2] "Sixteen Tons Entertainment – About Us". http://www.sixteen-tons.de/about-us.

[3] "Phoenix Games kauft "Emergency"-Entwickler". https://beta.gamesmarkt.de/details/447028.

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