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Behaviour Santiago

Chilean video game developer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ756147
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Behaviour Interactive Chile Ltda. (Behaviour Santiago; formerly Wanako Games Chile Ltda.) was a Chilean video game developer based in Santiago. The company was founded as Wanako Games in 2002, by Esteban Sosnik, Tiburcio de la Cárcova, Santiago Bilinkis, Wenceslao Casares. The studio was first acquired by Vivendi Games in February 2007 and ended up under Artificial Mind and Movement in December 2008. When Artificial Mind and Movement was renamed Behaviour Interactive in 2010, Wanako Games was renamed Behaviour Santiago. Behaviour Santiago was shut down on 20 November 2017.

History

Wanako Games was founded in 2002 by Esteban Sosnik, Tiburcio de la Cárcova, Santiago Bilinkis, Wenceslao Casares.

In February 2007, the studio was acquired by Vivendi Games for US$10 million, leaving it under the umbrella of Sierra Online, the Vivendi division in charge of producing online games and which, until then, had been the distributor of games. Wanako Games. Casares withdrew from the company after the sale.

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