A Gartner Report

The Mizurian Corporation

April 2013

What is now the Mizzurian Corporporation first appeared as a small video games company, Mizurian Games Inc, in 1996 with the launch of its first software title “Arkonan”.

Arkonan, a graphical RPG adventure game proved to be a massive hit in the fledgling PC games industry with sales exceeding a million units world wide in its first year.. Several successful titles followed, and it’s biggest success to date, ”Nexus” , another graphical RPG title, was launched in December 2003.

Whilst the first expansion launched in late 2004 was a success, the second expansion, released after several delays in late 2006 failed to make a significant impact. 3 further titles released to both the PC and console markets, also failed to ignite the market, but have proved to be steady sellers.

Whilst initially a video games company, the company has diversified significantly since 2007, changing it's name in 2008 to The Mizzurian Corporation.

The rapid diversification appears to coincide with the reappearance of one of its founders, Ms Cordelia Chan, following a 4 year unexplained absence. At the same time the company gained a substantial capital injection of some $250M effectively making it a private company under the control of Ms Chan whose share holding jumped to 67% overnight.

The first of it's diversification acquisitions was a small specialist computer producer Cyberworks of Virginia followed less than a month later by KLS ltd of Iowa, a minor producer of components for the defense industry. Both of these companies benefitted significantly from the aquisition and cash injection, have made significant progress on a number of DoD studies, and more remarkable are still under the day-to-day control of the original directors.

In early 2009 2 more acquisitions followed, Micornet Ltd and Numinor Ltd, the first specializing in the production of components for mobile devices, and the second a fledgling but highly innovative player in the virtual reality market. Its most recent acquisition in  January 2011, Cortalan, surprised the market completely, being a specialist in the biosensor, and artificial limb market. In each case Miurian appears to have gone out of it's way to both retain and enhance the original staff and significantly expand their research and development programs.

This year’s Mizzurian Expo (May 2nd-5th) could turn out to be a historic event, as Mizzurian appears to have staked its complete future on the success of its recently announced (December 21 2012) BlackShadow cyberdeck, claimed to be the world’s first virtual reality console and its new MMO Disjunction, a fully immersive Scifi sandbox universe where participants can do anything from fight solo as a soldier to captain the largest titan.

In a world where every other games company and technology producer leans over backwards to gain media coverage, Mizzurian has done exactly the opposite. Apart from the single, but very impressive, 5 minute trailer for the game there have been no further press releases, and despite the best efforts of investigative journalists and games commentators nothing relating to the game has come to the surface. This is either a very clever con or a master stoke in marketing as tickets of any description for the Expo sold out within a matter of hours of their availability on 2nd January this year. Even amongst the techno press pack, competition has become rife over the limited number of tickets available for the opening ceremony with reports of tickets trading for in excess of $200,000. There are unconfirmed reports of thefts, muggings, and blackmail plots in an attempt to garner one of the tickets.