Stephane Portha has been passionate about video games for over forty years. Ever since 1972, when he played the groundbreaking Pong, his sheer joy for all things gaming has been the driving force of his career.

Stephane Portha’s first foray into game development came in 1980, when he programmed the game Tanks on the Sharp PC-1211 and the ZX81. That same year, Stephane Portha became involved in another strand of technology that would feature heavily in his career, namely the Internet, when he created the first news network on UUCP. Stephane Portha followed up this success by helping launch Minitel in 1983 and later a games network on it.

After the foundation of Eurocenter in 1989, Stephane Portha could at last bring together his passions for gaming and the Internet. Over the subsequent years as CEO, Stephane Portha helped molding Eurocenter into a pioneer in the online multiplayer gaming marketplace and a leader in the creation of online multiplayer gaming solutions for other companies. With the advent of mobile phones, PDAs, games consoles, TV set-top boxes and PCs, Eurocenter began offering the capability of running multiplayer games on these devices.

In 2007 Eurocenter was renamed Eurocenter Games and launched a range of games in the Apple App Store - to date over 16 million games have been distributed. Despite such mainstream success, Stephane Portha insists that the company always remains true to the indie game developer philosophy and, most importantly, to its players.

Another successful strand in Stephane Portha's career is the MMO Graalonline which he created in 1998. Later, Graalonline Zone became the first MMO game on Apple’s iOS.
Passion undimmed, Stephane Portha is proud to still be at the forefront of gaming and Internet innovation.