Kalicanthus Entertainment was created in 2005 like a Business Unit of Intrasoft S.p.A., an IT company since 1996 located in Milan, Italy.
In 2007 Kalicanthus’ management and Intrasoft’s owners have taken the decision to create a spin-off and now Kalicanthus Entertainment is an independent private company.

Kalicanthus portal – www.kalicanthus.com
Yahoo Browser games portal – http://it.browsergames.games.yahoo.net
Editrice Giochi Risiko Digital 2 http://rd2.kalicanthus.it


Time Plan

August 2005 – Launched the first Online community Multiplayer portal on Tiscali
October 2005 – Launched the Sky Play.it portal – interactive game portal
February 2005 – Launched Fastmultiplay portal – online community Multiplayer portal
August 2006 – Opening of Kalicanthus.it the online game Italian portal with the first MMOG – Berserk Online
September 2006 – Launched Pentakor.it the online RPG browser game
September 2006 – Opening of it.browsergames.games.yahoo.net the only European online games in Yahoo network
January 2007 – Launched Seafight on Kalicanthus.it, closed a deal to manage Italian Bigpoint community
February 2007 – Opening of Risiko Digital 2 – Kalicanthus developed the game and act as publisher – closed a deal to manage Editrice Giochi community (forum.egcommunity.it)
April 2007 – Launched Sphere, the first Italian MMORPG – Kalicanthus.it community reaches 35.000 members
May 2007 – Kalicanthus.it becomes bigger – 6 news games published – community reaches 50.000 members
August 2007 – Launched Kalicanthus.eu and Kalicanthus.com, the English online game portal – Kalicanthus.it reaches 80.000 members
September 2007 – Launched Mission to IULM project: a community online game developer by Kalicanthus which will manage also the community by Tiscali commission
January 2008 – We published our 15th online games
February 2008 – We reached 160.000 registered users on our online games
May 2008 - We reached 200.000 registered users on our online games
November 2008 - Big success for Kalicanthus' stand at Lucca Games & Comics
February 2009 - Launched ARENA Online, the RvR F2P MMORPG
July 2009 - We reached 300.000 registered users on our online games
July 2009 - Launched the International version of ARENA Online
July 2009 - Launched www.kalicanthus.com the new multilingual portal
May 2010 - Launch of Craft of Gods, a new 3D Fantasy MMORPG designed to appeal to old-school MMO players, localized in English, Russian, German and Italian

Our Staff

CEO – Fabrizio “Erenforth” Calì Past experience: former Intrasoft CEO, he’s game consultant for Fastweb, Yahoo, Sky Italia, Editrice Giochi, he writes on some newspaper about games market Role: Kalicanthus strategy and content acquisition Gamer curriculum: Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Final Fantasy XI, World of Warcraft, Pentakor, Berserk Online, City of Heroes His well known sentence: “We’ll conquer the game world!” His vision: “A game without community is not a game, it’s a software application!” Located in: Milan, Italy Skype: Erenforth VP Game Product Manager – Irina “Malinka” Kudosova Past experience: former Russian game product manager, former game consultant in Russia for online games. Role: Project management for games publishing, developer relationships, localization team management Gamer curriculum: Dark Age of Camelot, World of Warcraft, City of Heroes, Toontown His well known sentence: “This game can be better” His vision: “The first 2 minutes entering into a game: it is the most important time spent in that game” Located in: Milan, Italy VP Community Manager – Raffaele “Deep” Dell’Orto Past experience: former CTO.net community manager, former head of Clans in Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot Italian community Role: Community manager, head of community manager team, game mastering, head of customer care team Gamer curriculum: Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Sphere, Rappelz, City of Heroes, Everquest II His well known sentence: “come va... va” His vision: “It's not just a game, it's a community of people” Located in: Cerro Maggiore, Milan, Italy VP Web Marketing – David “Beholder” Bossi Past experience: Software Betatesting, Junior System Administrator, Web Manager, Web Designer, Graphical Support, Computer Programmer. Role: Web site development manager, Community tools design, Graphical support Gamer curriculum: Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot, City of Heroes/Villains, Lord of the Rings Online, Eve Online, Rappelz, Silkroad Online, 9Dragons and various other mmorpg and multiplayer games. His well known sentence: “I like it, it's somewhat different” His vision: “Success lies in the good balance between fun and professional way” Located in: Cairate, Varese, Italy VP Game System Engineer – Andrea “Ariken” Teofilo Past experience: former system engineer for CTO.net the first Italian online game provider, former system engineer Role: Game server farm management, integration system management, system engineer Gamer curriculum: Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot. Sphere His well known sentence: “Or I play or I work, I cannot do both, so I’m working in game market” His vision: “We cannot do it… ok 5 minutes and it’s ready” Other staff people Kalicanthus.it community: 5 staff community manager Editrice Giochi community: 3 staff community manager Customer care, it and eu: 3 staff CC agent Advergame and Game projects: 1 game designer, 3 game developers, 2 graphic engineers