On May 7, 2014, Curse introduced Curse Profiles, an integrated social media system in Gamepedia offering a wide range of features. On June 26, 2013, Curse announced in a press conference that it would relocate their chief headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama, leaving their sales office in San Francisco. By June 2012, Curse's monthly worldwide traffic was reported by Quantcast as being in excess of 21 million unique visitors. In April 2012, Ernst & Young named Thieblot as a semifinalist in their 'Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year' program for Northern California. On December 14, 2012, Curse officially launched the Gamepedia wiki farm. as the 405th fastest growing company in the United States, and the San Francisco Business Times ranked it 22nd in their list of the 'Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies in the San Francisco Bay Area'. As the funding for Curse increased, it proceeded to develop several high-profile sites in-house, while acquiring larger sites with already established communities and content, particularly for MMO games such as RuneScape.

In short order, the site exponentially increased in traffic and popularity. After leaving school, Thieblot began to turn his passion into a business, launching CurseBeta in 2006, offering up add-ons and modifications. In the middle of 2020, CurseForge was sold from Twitch to Overwolf.Ĭurse was born out of founder Hubert Thieblot's 'hardcore' love of World of Warcraft. The remainder of the company (operating as CurseForge) remained under Twitch. On December 12, 2018, Fandom announced that they had acquired Curse's media assets, including its gaming community websites and Gamepedia wiki farm. On August 16, 2016, Curse announced that it had agreed to be acquired by via its subsidiary Twitch Interactive for an undisclosed amount. The company also sponsored an eponymous eSports club, which competed primarily in League of Legends. As it expanded, the company began to develop and acquire gaming communities (particularly focusing on MMORPG titles such as World of Warcraft, as well as other games such as Minecraft), wikis, as well as offering voice chat services. The company is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, and has offices in San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Brighton, and Berlin.Ĭurse initially focused on offering mods for various video games.

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