[The Following is Taken From Their Official Site]

House Tales Entertainment has been developing adventure games for PCs, mobile phones and N-Gage since 1998. The company has published numerous top titles including The Moment of Silence and the X-Files: The Deserter, which rocketed the company to a top international position in the market for adventure games.

A few milestones in the company’s history:

1996: Tobias Schachte and Martin Ganteföhr collaborate for the first time.
Between 1996 and 1997 they develop six infotainment adventures in the Terra-X series for ZDF Multimedia, the multimedia division of ZDF, one of the largest and most renowned television broadcasters in Europe.

1998: Schachte and Ganteföhr form the House of Tales Entertainment label and start developing The Mystery of the Druids, an adventure game for PC. This makes House of Tales the only German developer to occupy a position in the genre for adventure games. The project is taken under contract by CDV. Work is organised decentrally, and permanent outsourcing becomes part of the House of Tales corporate philosophy.

2001: The Mystery of the Druids appears. Ganteföhr starts working on the contents for the next project in Autumn of the same year. Schachte sets up the development studio in Siegerland under contract from CDV.

2002: House of Tales presents its new project at the Games Convention 2003: The Moment of Silence finds great resonance amongst publishers, the press and the gaming community.

2003: House of Tales becomes a GmbH (limited liability company in Germany). HoT become the first company worldwide to develop adventure games for Java-enabled mobile phones in collaboration with the mobile phone game specialist Elkware (now infospace). Four highly successful games are developed between 2003 and 2004 including an X-Files title licensed from Fox Entertainment Inc. The Moment of Silence is taken under contract by dtp, a rising star in the publishing scene for adventure games.

2004: The Moment of Silence appears in all German-speaking countries; it is published worldwide in eight languages a few months later. The game is reviewed 120 times around the world and receives positive votes of no less than 80% or more. It is also ranked three times amongst the top three games by the German Developers Award in different years, and receives the readers’ choice prize awarded by PC Games for the “Game of the Year 2004 – Adventure”.

2005: House of Tales expands into new fields and presents itself as a content provider for computer game productions. House of Tales supplies the design document and dialogue script for the TV license for Verliebt in Berlin and directs the recording of the original voices from the series.

House of Tales presents its new project at the Games Convention 2005: dtp takes Overclocked, the new psychothriller from HoT, under worldwide contract.

2006: House of Tales opens a development studio in Bremen and expands its team to drive the development of Overclocked.