Founded as Massive Development GbR, the company was active between 1994 and 2005 and is primarily known for their post-apocalyptic science fiction video games Archimedean Dynasty and AquaNox, which have attained somewhat of a cult status.

Their first product was the porting of the Amiga game The Settlers to MS-DOS in 1994.

In 1996 they released the successful science-fiction submarine role-playing video game Archimedean Dynasty, published by Blue Byte.

[1][2][3] In December 2000, Massive Development was bought by the Austrian publisher JoWooD.

[7] Two of the original founders, Alexander Jorias and Ingo Frick, are now working on a 3D chat with Social Networking Features, titled Club Cooee.