Mousebreaker is a UK based casual games website founded in 2001 by Richard Pendry and Alick Stott. One of the earliest browser game portals, the site earned a reputation in terms of publishing sports and, in particular, football games. In 2008, the website was purchased by UK publisher IPC Media for a rumoured seven figure sum.[1] The site was amongst the biggest UK flash games websites, with over 4,500,000 unique users per month.[2] In 2016, Mousebreaker was sold to Spil Games.[3]
Early games
Pendry and Stott first worked together on flash games as a hobby in 2000. Their first projects were a simple penalty shoot out game, and a pool game that would be the basis of the Blast Billiards franchise. Upon licensing copies of both games, the pair realised the potential of their hobby, but it wasn’t until 2003 that Mousebreaker.com was popular enough to be the only source of income for them and they began to work on the website full-time.[4]