Smilegate West | 5,425 followers on LinkedIn. Innovate...Thrive...Evolve | Smilegate West is a leading publisher of free-to-play online games. Founded in 2006, Smilegate West’s mission is to become the leading online game publisher in the West. Smilegate West currently publishes “CrossFire”, the world’s largest first-person online shooter with more than 650 million registered players globally, recording 8 million concurrent users, in the Americas, U.K. and the MENA region, and “Lost Saga” in North America, LATAM, Europe, and the MENA region through its proprietary online gaming portal, Z8Games (www.z8games.com).