Sobee Studios
Mevlüt Dinç's Repatriation and Turkey's First Online MMO Frontier
Sobee Studios is a pioneering Turkish video game development company established in Istanbul in 2004 by veteran developer Mevlüt Dinç following his prolific career in the UK. Sobee authored Turkey's first major commercial MMORPG, İstanbul Kıyamet Vakti (2007), alongside the UN-award-winning 11-versus-11 soccer title I Can Football.
Repatriating Game Engineering to Turkey
Having led Vivid Image in the UK on Amiga classics like First Samurai, Mevlüt Dinç returned to Turkey to build an indigenous game development ecosystem, establishing Sobee in 2004. The studio engineered lightweight proprietary 3D client engines optimized for early Turkish ADSL broadband networks.
Türk Telekom Acquisition and Global Awards
In 2009, telecommunications giant Türk Telekom acquired Sobee. The studio pioneered I Can Football, an unprecedented 11v11 online soccer simulation where every pitch position was piloted by a real online user, winning the United Nations-affiliated World Summit Award for digital entertainment in 2010.