As the funding for Curse increased, it proceeded to develop several high-profile sites in-house while acquiring larger sites with already established communities and content, particularly for MMO games such as RuneScape. In short order, the site exponentially increased in traffic and popularity. After leaving school, Thieblot began to turn his passion into a business, launching CurseBeta in 2006, offering up add-ons and modifications. History 2006–2010 Ĭurse was born out of founder Hubert Thieblot's "hardcore" love of World of Warcraft. In the middle of 2020, CurseForge was sold from Twitch to Overwolf. The remainder of Curse's assets stayed with Twitch. In December 2018, Fandom announced that they had acquired Curse's media assets, including its gaming community websites, Gamepedia wiki farm and D&D Beyond. In August 2016, Curse announced that it had agreed to be acquired by Amazon via its subsidiary Twitch Interactive for an undisclosed amount. The company also sponsored an eponymous eSports club, which competed primarily in League of Legends.
As it expanded, the company began to develop and acquire gaming communities (particularly focusing on MMORPG titles such as World of Warcraft, as well as other games such as Minecraft), wikis, as well as offering voice chat services. The company was headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, and had offices in San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Brighton, and Berlin.Ĭurse initially focused on offering mods for various video games. Donovan Duncan ( President, 2015–2019) Ĭurse was a gaming company that managed the video game mod host CurseForge, wiki host Gamepedia, and the Curse Network of gaming community websites.
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