Akella
| Industry | Video games | 
|---|---|
| Founded | 1993 | 
| Defunct | 2012 | 
| Fate | Bankruptcy, Liquidated | 
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia | 
| Number of employees | 250 (2012) | 
| Divisions | Akella Online | 
| Website | akella | 
Akella (Russian: Акелла) was a Russian software company specialising in the development, publishing and distribution of video games and multimedia products. The founders met in 1993 and decided to start a company together and in 1995 formed Akella. The company comprised five in-house development teams, a publishing house, a distribution center, a localisation team and a quality assurance department; in total, 250 people were employed by Akella. There were several sub-brands owned by Akella, such as Macho Studios, that developed erotic games and published Japanese hentai dating sims.
The company is named after a Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book character, Akela the wolf, and its logo is a wolf.