Ottawa-based online gaming company Go3 has merged with Wizard Productions, a Jordanian social game developer specializing in massively multiplayer online titles for Middle Eastern markets. With the merger, the two will combine their sales, games, technology, and employees.

Founded in December 2008, Wizard Productions offers licensing, localization, hosting, and white-labeling services in addition to its catalog of MMORPG, MMORTS, and MMOFPS titles. The studio prides itself as as "one of the few companies in the Middle East region that actually produces Arabic games from scratch."

Wizard Productions has already shipped nine games -- such as Arabian Hitman, Arabic Mafia and Terrorism Warfare -- which has brought in a total of 300,000 registered users and attracts over 1,000 new players a day. Its titles generate more than 40 million page views per month.

The developer believes its merger with Go3, which was completed last September but wasn't formally announced until recently, is designed to combine the Canadian company's experience in the browser-based gaming market with its own strengths. Go3 was established in 2007 and has released various English titles on iPhone and Facebook in North America and Europe.

"This merger enables us to service our gamers more effectively as well as penetrate the American and European social gaming markets.” says Wizard Productions's CEO Afif Toukan. “Today’s agreement enables us to build upon the years of experience the two companies have with social games production and management to make sure our players continue to enjoy the game play as we expand our business."