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 BigFishGames.com.

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.

The 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 its 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.

New worldwide corporate headquarters estabished 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.

Award-winning Grubby Games studio acquired and Vancouver Studio established.

European headquarters are established in Cork, Ireland.

Ian Hurlock-Jones, former CIO of both Fox Interactive Media and Buy.com, joins as CTO.

Big Fish Games surpasses $100 million in annual revenue.

Big Fish Games announces 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 launches on iPad on the day of the device's release.

CEO Jeremy Lewis is 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 launches five additional language portals (Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish) and adds 12 currencies to its payment system.