GameDuell is Germany’s most visited Internet gaming site with serveral millions of registered users. It offers members the chance to play popular games in direct competition against each other and by doing so the chance to win real money and other attractive prizes.
There are many different games to choose from on the site www.gameduell.de and everyday, several hundreds of thousands duels take place between users. Already in 2005, winners were paid more than 5,000,000 Euro in prizes.
GameDuell works with a partner network of many well-known businesses from the media and Internet branches. These partners include, among others, Germany’s largest Internet portals such as Bild.T-Online, GMX, Tomorrow, Lycos, Chip, MSN, WEB.de. GameDuell also markets its gaming offers in Spain as well as within the German speaking countries. It also plans to expand further into other European countries in the future.
GameDuell was founded in 2003 and is under the management of Kai Bolik (Chairman of the Board), Michael Kalkowski (Product Manager) and Boris Wasmuth (Marketing Manager) and employs more than 70 employees at its Berlin headquarters.
At the end of 2003, Holtzbrinck Ventures and Burda Digital both took part in launching the company.
