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Games.com, March 13th, 2012
Top Eleven gets spiffy new interface, Club Shop to get its brand on
The number one sports game on Facebook just scored a fresh coat of paint. Nordeus has updated Top Eleven with a brand new, streamlined user interface, complete with 3D visuals, kits and icons, we’re told. The Serbian developer has also introduced the Club Shop to Top Eleven, a place where players can purchase everything that’s available in-game (read more).
Inside Social Games, February 22nd, 2012
How bootstrapped Serbian startup Nordeus beat EA’s FIFA at its own Facebook game
Of all the sports games on Facebook, soccer-themed games reign supreme, accounting for more than half of the 40 most popular sports games on the platform.The leader of the pack is Nordeus — a bootstrapped Serbian developer founded by three former Microsoft employees. Its game, Top Eleven – Be a Football Manager is a detailed football management sim, and despite its complexity, has 3.6 million monthly active users and 1.2 million daily active users, far above its closest competitor, the officially licensed title EA’s FIFA Superstars, which currently has 1.9 million MAU and 300,000 DAU according to AppData (read more).
The Guardian, February 22nd, 2012
Facebook builds European social games team following startups’ success
Facebook is creating a dedicated gaming team in Europe, matching the one it has in the US, to work more closely with social games developers across Europe (read more).
GoalEurope, February 3rd, 2012
Gamify career planning in IT: on Nordeus, hackathons and their purpose.
Nordeus is perhaps one of few employers which do not need advertisement. Serbian game developer and a publisher of a successful social football game “Top Eleven” is bootstrapped and profitable. Ahead of FIFA Superstars by a large margin, Top Eleven boasts over one million daily players, and the game is already available on iOS and Android platforms. It will be no exaggeration to say that the company is a star of Serbian tech industry and a major success story. So when the company announced that it began accepting applications for the first ever 24-hour gaming hackathon organized in Serbia last December, over 150 people applied to participate (read more).
Gamezebo, January 5th, 2012
Gamezebo Cribs: Nordeus edition
It’s 2012, and we’re kicking off a new year of Gamezebo Cribs by heading to Belgrade, Serbia to see the offices of game developer Nordeus. While the studio has only released one game so far, it’s one that we just can’t stop playing. Top Eleven is currently the top sports game on Facebook, and thanks to the release of apps on both Android and iOS it’s easier to play than ever. Let’s check out where the soccer management addiction is made (read more).
Gamasutra, December 22nd, 2011
Facebook Names Gardens of Time Most Popular Social Game Of 2011
Facebook has revealed the top 10 games available to play via the social network in 2011, based on the highest user satisfaction, along with various other top titles.The top lists, compiled via user ratings versus the number of monthly active players, include the most popular titles of the year, along with the top games in specific categories (read more).
All Facebook, December 21st, 2011
Facebook’s Hottest Game Of 2011: Gardens Of Time
Facebook released a ranking of its most popular games for 2011, and among other surprises, Playdom’s Gardens of Time topped the list (read more).
Inside Social Games, December 21st, 2011
Facebook Announces “Top” 2011 Games
Facebook has compiled a list of its most popular games for 2011, as well as lists of other games with notable achievements for the year (read more).
TechCrunch, December 21st, 2011
Facebook Snubs Zynga’s CityVille As Most Popular Game Despite 5X Users Of #1 Gardens Of Time
Attracting the long tail of small and medium developers is essential to retaining gamers who are always looking for something new to play. Facebook went out of its way to feature smaller and non-Silicon Valley developers. It included categories such as Top up-and-comers (Battle Pirates by Kixeye) and most popular games with 50,000-100,000 users (Super Slot Machines). It also cited top sports app TopEleven as having a team of just 30 out of Serbia in an email to us, and noted other developers from Germany, Japan, and Prague (read more).
Inside Facebook, December 1st, 2011
The Top 25 Facebook Games of December 2011
Now that the dust has settled after Facebook’s adjustment to its method for counting active users, we take a look at the top 25 Facebook games going into December 2011. The biggest gainer was newcomer CastleVille at No.2, Zynga’s latest and so far fastest-growing game ever on Facebook while older game Top Eleven makes its debut at No.25 (read more).
Gamezebo, November 29th, 2011
Why Top Eleven is a great example of cross-platform gaming
Nordeus’ soccer management game Top Eleven, on the other hand, is a solid example of how to do cross-platform gaming right. The new mobile version of the game doesn’t have everything the Facebook version does, but instead it offers up a supplementary experience that greatly enhances playing the game (read more).
Social Games Observer, November 23rd, 2011
Nordeus Releases Popular Top Eleven Game for iOS Handsets.
Social games developer Nordeus is on a roll: Last week, the company was presented with the best gaming startup trophy at The Europas awards, today, the Belgrade-based developer announced a Top Eleven iOS app. Top Eleven is a football (soccer) manager where users select, train and build their own squad of players to compete against others (read more).
Netokracija, November 23rd, 2011
Top Eleven for iPhone wants to be all but yet another “casual” game.
Interview with Nordeus’s iOS dev lead about the release of Top Eleven for iPhone and iPad (read more).
Games.com blog, November 23rd, 2011
Play the other football on Thanksgiving with Top Eleven on iOS.
Nordeus has finally released its hit football/soccer game Top Eleven on iPhone and iPad for the fine price of free. Based on a brief description of the game provided by Nordeus, this looks to be simply a port of the Android version released in October (read more).
Gamezebo, November 23rd, 2011
Soccer management game Top Eleven slides on to iOS.
First Facebook, then Android, and now developer Nordeus has announced that hit soccer management game Top Eleven is available in the Apple App Store (read more).
Social Games Observer, November 21st, 2011
Game of the Week: Top Eleven – European Award Winner Loved by Male Would-Be Football Managers.
This week’s game of the week Top Eleven is the only title by Serbian developer Nordeus. The bootstrapped company, based in Belgrade and founded by ex-Microsoft employees, was awarded Best Gaming or Social Games Startup at The Europas award, last week. Within the past 18 months, Nordeus grew from three people to a team of over 40 and overtook EA’s FIFA Superstars on Facebook in June 2011. Most recently, an Android version of Top Eleven was launched (read more).
The Europas, November 18th, 2011
PeerIndex wins The Grand Prix as The Europas Awards drifts Eastwards.
Nordeus won the award The best Gaming Start-up at Europas 2011. While London once again held it’s own as a crucible of tech startup innovation in Europe, with Conversocial, Pusher, OneFineStay and Mixcloud among those taking honours, there was a marked drift Eastward and North in Europe, as startups from Berlin (Amen, EyeEm, 6Wunderkinder) and Belgrade (Nordeus) won their category or were Highly Commended (read more)
Inside Social Games, November 18th, 2011
Social Gaming News Roundup: Google+, Car Town and Nordeus.
Nordeus Best Social Gaming Startup of 2011 – Serbian social game company Nordeus has been named the best gaming startup of 2011 at the annual Europas Awards. (read more)
Goal Europe, November 18th, 2011
Lookk and Nordeus won at Europas.
Lookk and Nordeus won at Europas. It is perhaps obvious why Nordeus, successful Serbian game developer has been named a winner in a category Best Game. (read more)
Yahoo Finance, October 21st, 2011
Facebook’s Most Played Sports Game Comes to Android.
Nordeus, developers of Facebook’s most played sports game, Top Eleven, today announces that it has launched a mobile version of its game on Android. This follows on from the launch earlier this month of Top Eleven 2.0 on Facebook and TopEleven.com, bringing a huge number of new features to the game. This month Top Eleven also passed a milestone of having over one million users log in to play in one day. (read more)
TechCrunch Europe, October 20th, 2011
Nordeus’ Top Eleven gives its 1,000,000 daily active players an Android app – iOS to follow soon!
Nordeus, makers of the extremely popular web-based football manager Top Eleven, have released their first mobile application: the Android version of their main product. Top Eleven for Android offers the same features and gameplay to Nordeus’s more than 3 million players in a user interface made for mobile gaming. Like its “big brother”, the Android application is free to play (read more)
Games.com, October 20th, 2011
Nordeus passes Top Eleven’s stat-crunching soccer to Android devices.
Serbian social game creator Nordeus announced that its hit football simulator game Top Eleven has launched for Android phones. Of course, the game is 100 percent free to download right here. But more importantly, the game allows for cross-platform play. (read more)
Gamezebo, October 19th, 2011
It may not have any official licenses, but Top Eleven is as deep as sports management games come (read more).
Gamezebo, October 6th, 2011
Top Eleven gets biggest update yet next week.
Top Eleven, the soccer management game that recently surpassed FIFA Superstars as the biggest sports game on Facebook, will be getting its biggest update yet starting next week. Top Eleven 2.0, as it’s being called, will bring with it new features and an updated interface. (read more)
AllFacebook, October 5th, 2011
Top Eleven Kicks Off Facebook Soccer Game Update.
The backing of soccer’s international governing body didn’t help Electronic Arts’ FIFA Superstars in its competition with Nordeus’ Top Eleven for monthly players and now the latter is releasing a comprehensive update. Top Eleven 2.0 will be available Monday, October 10, via Facebook and the Top Eleven website. (read more)
Gamezebo, September 27th, 2011
Interview: How Top Eleven beat FIFA Superstars to become the top soccer game on Facebook.
Serbia-based Nordeus may not be as big as EA, but that hasn’t stopped the developer’s game Top Eleven from surpassing FIFA Superstars as the most popular soccer game on Facebook. Since its release last May, the game has been steadily rising in popularity, and today commands over 4.5 million monthly active users. It’s also Nordeus’ only release since the developer was founded in 2009. Gamezebo spoke to CEO Branko Milutinovic to learn a bit more about the success of Top Eleven and what we can expect to see next from Nordeus. (read more)
Games. com blog, September 9th, 2011
Nordeus’s CEO on how Top Eleven became number one [Interview].
The game, which overtook EA Sports and Playfish’s FIFA Superstars this summer, takes a far heavier simulator approach to the sports genre on Facebook. Oddly enough, this take has done quite well for Nordeus thus far. Games.com sat down with Nordeus CEO Branko Milutinovi? recently to find out why the company took this approach to sports games on Facebook, how it has made it this far, and what it plans to do to stay on top. (read more)
Netokracija, September 5th, 2011
Nordeus’s Top Eleven Football Manager game on Facebook has over 4 million MAU (read more)
SocialEast, August 10th, 2011
Nordeus: We aim to become a European Zynga (read more)
SocialEast, August 9th, 2011
Rumor mill: Nordeus announces big surprise in September. What do you think it is? (read more)
Netokracija, August 3rd, 2011
Nordeus’s Top Eleven Football Manager is played by 800.000 Daily Active Users (the article is on Croatian, read more)
Netokracija, June 20th, 2011
Nordeus, having 3 million Monthly Active Users and 25 employees is a profitable regional Internet startup whose game won FIFA on Facebook (the article is on Croatian, read more)
TechCrunch, June 16th, 2011
Bootstrapped and profitable Nordeus taking on EA in the social gaming space.
Nordeus made quite a stir when their social football game, Top Eleven, beating gaming giant EA’s FIFA Superstars for the most monthly players, attracting over 2.8 million users (read more)
Netokracija, June 15th, 2011
Top Eleven from Serbia won over FIFA as the most popular football game on Facebook (the article is on Croatian, read more)
AllFacebook, June 14th, 2011
Serbian Soccer Upstart Outscores FIFA On Facebook.
Serbian developer Nordeus has scored big time with its European football game on Facebook: Top Eleven soccer now outranks Electronic Arts’ FIFA Superstars, by a margin of about 85,000 more monthly players — and our own statistics tools confirm these numbers (read more)
Games.com, June 13th, 2011
Top Eleven shuts out EA’s FIFA Superstars as top Facebook sports game.
If there is one major success EA has enjoyed on Facebook, it’s owning the top sports game on the platform, FIFA Superstars. Unfortunately, that heavyweight title now belongs to Nordeus, the Serbian developer that created Top Eleven. The soccer–ahem, football–game attracts 2.87 million monthly players compared to FIFA’s 2.801 million players, according to AppData (read more)
Inside Social Games, March 30th, 2011
The Top 5 Facebook Soccer Games By Traffic.
Sports games make up only a small fraction of top games on our traffic tracking service, AppData, and of those, the soccer (or football, if you live outside the United States) looks like it’s the only sports sub-category to break the top 40. As the English Premier League season winds down in Europe and the Major League Soccer season kicks off in North America, we check in with the five largest soccer games for any emerging trends. (read more)
Inside Social Games, September 9th, 2010
Nordeus Grows Steadily with Slow Burn Soccer Manager on Facebook.
The boom of soccer-oriented apps may be over, but an older Facebook soccer manager came to our attention recently. Top Eleven Football Manager was developed back in May by European developer Nordeus — a company comprised of former Microsoft engineers– and has grown steadily in the past months. Currently, the title has upwards of 204,000 monthly active users and a good player loyalty rate with a daily active user count of over 52,000 (read more)
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