i-Jet Media is a Russian distribution network and publisher of social games on web portals and social networks. It was founded in 2005 and published its first game, Maffia News, in 2007. The company has foreign offices in Silicon Valley, United States and Beijing, China.
History
In 2005, i-Jet Media was founded as a developer of browser-based games.[1] The company's first game, Maffia New, was developed during the next two years. After the launch, Maffia New used to gain more than 500,000 monthly users on Rambler.[2] In 2007, Maffia New was published on Rambler.ru as well as Time to Enforce, Real Wars and Steel Giants were launched. Alexey Kostarev, CEO and co-founder of i-Jet Media, opened an office in Silicon Valley, United States. After that, the company started preparing to launch social games in Russia.[3]
In 2009, the company launched a cooperative project with Chinese developer Elex: i-Jet Media published Elex's games in Russian social networks — VKontakte, first of all.[4]