Paradox Interactive

Paradox Interactive is a Swedish video game developer best known for historical strategy games such as Crusaders Kings and Europa Universalis. In November 2015, Paradox purchased White Wolf and its associated intellectual properties (World of Darkness, Exalted, et al.) from CCP hf.

Paradox was originally the video game development arm of media holding company Paradox Entertainment, but later split off from its parent company. Paradox Entertainment was born out of the company Target Games, who published the iconic Swedish role-playing games Drakar och Demoner, Kult and Mutant in the 1980s and 1990s, but who declared bankruptcy in 1999 and were acquired by Paradox, which had been formed by former Target executives. In 2003, after Paradox acquired the copyrights to Robert E. Howards's works (most notably Conan the Barbarian), Paradox's former video game development division was spun off into the wholly independent company Paradox Interactive.