Universomo

Universomo Ltd.
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video games
Founded	2002; 23 years ago
Defunct	March 2, 2010
Fate	Shuttered
Headquarters	Tampere, Finland
Products	The Force Unleashed ; de Blob
Parent	THQ (2007–2010)

Universomo Ltd. was a Finnish video game developer based in Tampere, Finland, founded in 2002, and acquired by THQ on May 9, 2007.^[1]^[2] Universomo also had offices in Helsinki, Finland and San Diego, United States. The studio focused on games for mobile phones, the iPhone and the N-Gage. On January 12, 2010, THQ announced the Nintendo DS title Beat City, developed by Universomo,^[3] marking the developer's first entry to the handheld gaming market.

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On March 2, 2010, Universomo's closure was announced.^[4] This left THQ Wireless without any studios under its umbrella, and development of its games would be outsourced to external studios.

Universomo was best known for the favorably reviewed mobile^[5] and iPhone^[6] versions of de Blob, the mobile, iPhone and N-Gage versions of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and the mobile versions of Lego Star Wars: The Video Game.

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