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Digital Chocolate, inc.
Digital Chocolate has rapidly emerged as a leader in cross-platform social games. Best known for Zombie Lane, Army Attack, Millionaire City, and MMA Pro Fighter, Digital Chocolate has been the fastest-growing maker of Facebook social games with virtual goods in 2010 and led all software companies in App Store downloads in 2009. Focused on original brands and technology for a wide variety of platforms, the company has made over 100 different award-winning games and works with 200 leading web and mobile channel partners in 80 countries. Digital Chocolate has operations in San Mateo, Seattle, Helsinki, Barcelona, St. Petersburg, Bangalore, and Mexicali.
Trip Hawkins is the founder and CEO of Digital Chocolate, a leading publisher of social games like Millionaire City and Zombie Lane. Trip played a key role in defining the personal computer as one of the first Apple employees from 1978-1982. He founded Electronic Arts in 1982 and built the company into the industry leader, serving as its first CEO and Chairman of the Board from 1982-1994. He then founded 3DO, a pioneer in digital video, network gaming, and social communities. The author of three patents, Trip introduced the concept of game development as a creative art form and the use of celebrities and athletes in video games. His design credits include award-winning best-sellers such as John Madden Football, Army Men, M.U.L.E., Doctor J and Larry Bird Go One on One, and High Heat Baseball. Trip created the first college degree in video games, graduating magna cum laude from Harvard with a degree in Strategy and Applied Game Theory. He was the first, and is still the only, business executive to be inducted into the Hall of Fame by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
