Paul Thelen founds Big Fish Games as a game development studio. Thelen's first game, Critical Mass, releases three months later. Mahjong Towers, the first number one hit, follows in August. Twelve more games appear over the next 14 months.

Games from external independent developers are distributed on the site.

Big Fish Games emerges as a top sales channel for game developers.

BigFishGames.com begins offering A New Game Every Day!®

The German-language portal launches.

Big Fish Games Studios, the in-house game development team, releases the first game of the award-winning Mystery Case Files® franchise, Mystery Case Files: Huntsville.

Big Fish Games Japanese-language portal launches.

Goldman Sachs Managing Director Jeremy Lewis joins Big Fish Games as president and COO.

The Big Fish Games affiliate program offers a new mechanism to increase value for partners and affiliates.

Big Fish Games French-language portal launches.

Jeremy Lewis is promoted to CEO. Thelen becomes chief strategy officer.

Big Fish Games Spanish-language portal launches.

Big Fish Games and Nintendo partner to release Mystery Case Files™: MillionHeir, the first hidden object game for the DS platform.

Big Fish Games Studios releases first game for iPhone, Hidden Expedition®: Everest.

Big Fish Games secures an $83.3 million common stock financing from Balderton Capital, General Catalyst Partners, and Salmon River Capital designed for global growth and expansion.

The company establishes new worldwide corporate headquarters on Seattle's waterfront.

Big Fish Games and Harlequin Enterprises announce a licensing agreement that will result in interactive games based on Harlequin novels and novels inspired by Mystery Case Files™.

Big Fish Games establishes Vancouver Studio and acquires award-winning Grubby Games studio.

European headquarters are established in Cork, Ireland.

Michael Vernon, former CFO of aQuantive, joins Big Fish Games as CFO. Ian Hurlock-Jones, former CIO of both Fox Interactive Media and Buy.com, joins as CTO.

Big Fish Games announces strategic exclusive-distribution partnership with PlayFirst.

Big Fish Games launches a series of game initiatives on Facebook: Faunasphere, MyTribe and Treasure Quest. Company reaches more than 1.5 M monthly average users (MAUs) across all Facebook games within three months of first Facebook game launch.

Amazon: Hidden Expedition launched on iPad on the day of the device’s release.

CEO Jeremy Lewis awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the Technology category for the Pacific Northwest.

One billion downloads milestone reached.

Big Fish Games and Woman's Day announce partnership.

Big Fish Games expands to 5 new countries (Italy, Brazil, Sweden, Denmark, and Netherlands)

Big Fish Games nominated as "Best Place to Work in Washington".

Dave Stephenson, former VP of Finance for Amazon, joins Big Fish Games as CFO.

Big Fish Games launches first game on Nintendo Wii – Mystery Case Files: Malgrave Incident.

Big Fish Games’ launches games on Android and Kindle Touch.

Big Fish Games launches two anticipated sequels – Drawn: Trail of Shadows and Mystery Case Files: Escape from Ravenhearst.

One and a half billion downloads milestone reached.

Record revenue growth of 30% in 2011.

Big Fish Games hires Wibe Wagemans, former SVP of Rovio, creators of mobile hit Angry Birds.

Big Fish Games acquires mobile- social game developer Self Aware Games and establishes Oakland, CA, office.

Big Fish Games launches Fairway Solitaire on iPhone and iPad.